okvet [Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals, 1st Edition]

Language: English

Page Count: 1136

Description

Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals is a comprehensive resource that covers the pathology of wildlife and zoo species, including a wide scope of animals, disease types and geographic regions. It is the definitive book for students, biologists, scientists, physicians, veterinary clinicians and pathologists working with non-domestic species in a variety of settings. General chapters include information on performing necropsies, proper techniques to meet the specialized needs of forensic cases, laboratory diagnostics, and an introduction into basic principles of comparative clinical pathology. The taxon-based chapters provide information about disease in related groups of animals and include descriptions of gross and histologic lesions, pathogenesis and diagnostics. For each group of animals, notable, unique gross and microscopic anatomical features are provided to further assist the reader in deciding whether differences from the domestic animal paradigm are "normal." Additional online content, which includes text, images, and whole scanned glass slides of selected conditions, expands the published material resulting in a comprehensive approach to the topic.

Key Features

Presents a single resource for performing necropsies on a variety of taxa, including terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates
Describes notable, unique gross and microscopic anatomical variations among species/taxa to assist in understanding normal features, in particular those that can be mistaken as being abnormal
Provides consistent organization of chapters with descriptions of unique anatomic features, common non-infectious and infectious diseases following brief overviews of the taxonomic group
Contains full-color, high quality illustrations of diseases
Links to a large online library of scanned slides related to topics in the book that illustrate important histologic findings

Readership

Veterinary pathologists; zoo and wildlife clinicians; wildlife biologists, students, residents, and fellows in zoo, wildlife, veterinary, exotic pet medicine and pathology and academic environments; wildlife biologists; scientists in laboratory settings and laboratory animal settings; Physicians in public health and infectious disease; Zoologists, Conservation biologists, Comparative pathologists, Osteologists, Comparative anatomists

Table of Contents

Preface: History of Wildlife Pathology

1. Wildlife Necropsy

2. Forensic Wildlife Pathology

3. Laboratory Diagnostics

4. Introduction to Comparative Clinical Pathology

5. Bovidae, Antilocapridae, Giraffidae, Hippopotamidae, Tragulidae

6. Cervidae

7. Camelidae

8. Suidae, Tayassuidae

9. Canidae, Ursidae, and Ailuridae

10. Felidae

11. Mustelidae

12. Procyonidae, Viverridae and Ursidae

13. Prosimians

14. New World and Old World Monkeys

15. Apes

16. Proboscidea

17. Perissodactyla

18. Monotremes and Marsupials

19. Lagomorpha

21. Xenartha, Erinacoemorpha, Eutheria, Afrotheria

22. Cetacea

23. Pinnipeds

24. Sirenia

25. Chiroptera

26. Struthioniformes

27. Sphenisciformes, Gaviiformes, Podiceipediformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes

28. Phoenicopteriformes

29. Anseriformes, Ciconiiformes, Charadriiformes, Gruiformes

30. Birds of Prey

31. Galliformes, Columbiformes

32. Psittaciformes, Coliiformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes

33. Passeriformes, Trochiliformes, Coraciiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes, Piciformes

34. Chelonia

35. Crocodilia

36. Lacertilia

37. Serpentis

38. Amphibia

39. Osteichthyes (Freshwater & Marine)

40. Chondrichthes

41. Invertebrates

About the Editor

Karen Terio

As a member of the Zoological Pathology Program (ZPP), Dr. Terio provides comprehensive pathology services to the Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo, John G. Shedd Aquarium and Lincoln Park Zoo as well as to local, national and international wildlife agencies and conservation programs. Her research focuses on the pathogenesis of diseases affecting free-ranging and captive wild animal populations. She serves as an advisor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Felid Taxon Advisory Group, several individual felid Species Survival Plans (SSP), the Chimpanzee SSP as well as for in situ conservation programs including the Cheetah Conservation Fund and the Gombe Ecosystem Health Project.

Denise McAloose

Dr. McAloose directs the pathology and molecular diagnostic laboratories at the WCS, which provide diagnostic services and consultation to the organization’s 4 zoos and aquarium in New York City and their local and international conservation projects in over 40 countries. She is an advisor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Felid Taxon Advisory Group and individual felid and canid Species Survival Plans (SSP) as well as a member of the National Marine Fisheries Services/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Working Group for Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events. She is also a Senior Courtesy Lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Veterinary Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Judy St. Leger