Chapter 72 Asian Wild Horse Reintroduction Program Christian Walzer, Petra Kaczensky The first documentation of Przewalski’s-type wild horses dates from more than 20,000 years ago. Rock engravings, paintings, and decorated…
Chapter 56 White-Nose Syndrome in Cave Bats of North America Elizabeth L. Buckles, Anne E. Ballmann White-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging disease of hibernating insectivorous bats, is associated with unprecedented…
Chapter 37 Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Buceros Hornbills Kathryn C. Gamble The rhinothecal ornamentation known as the casque is unique to the avian family Bucerotidae (hornbill).9 The casque is an…
Chapter 5 Cowpox in Zoo Animals Andreas Kurth, Andreas Nitsche Cause Cowpox virus (CPXV) belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus (OPV) of the family Poxviridae. Virions are enveloped with a high…
Chapter 50 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease Peter H. Holz Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) was first recognized in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) in northeastern Tasmania in 1996. Its…
Chapter 46 Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in Raptors J. Lindsay Oaks, Carol Uphoff Meteyer The use of analgesia has become standard, and appropriate, practice in avian medicine. As in mammals, pain…
Chapter 48 Rabies Management in Wild Carnivores Dennis Slate, Charles E. Rupprecht Rabies is an acute progressive encephalitis caused by viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. This zoonosis is…
Chapter 34 Hellbender Medicine Randall E. Junge Biologic Data The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiesis) is a large aquatic salamander native to the United States. There are two subspecies; the eastern hellbender…
Chapter 18 Emerging Diseases at the Interface of People, Domestic Animals, and Wildlife* Robert A. Cook, William B. Karesh Increasingly, diseases are moving among people, domestic animals, and wildlife, creating…
Chapter 81 Johne’s Disease and Free-Ranging Wildlife Elizabeth J.B. Manning, Jonathan Mark Sleeman This chapter addresses the current status of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection in free-ranging wildlife, taking…
