Bringing together a globally diverse range of timely topics related to zoo and wild animals
Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Volume 9 is an invaluable tool for any professional
working directly with wildlife and zoo animals. The text's user-friendly format guides readers
through biology anatomy and special physiology reproduction restraint and handling housing
requirements nutrition and feeding surgery and anesthesia diagnostics and therapeutics for
each animal. Two new co-editors and a globally diverse group of expert contributors each lend
their expertise on a wide range of new topics - including a new section on emerging wildlife
diseases covering topics like MERS Equine Herpesvirus and Ebola in great apes. Other new
topics integrated into this ninth volume include: stem cell therapy in zoo medicine cardiac
disease in great apes disease risk assessment in field studies Tasmanian devil tumors and
the latest information on the elephant herpes virus. With all its synthesized coverage of
emerging trends treatment protocols and diagnostic updates new to the field Fowler's is a
reference you don't want to be without.
