Recent Advances in Zoo and Wild Animals Health and Management

Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Studying disease in nature is this a medical scientist’s dream or nightmare?/R.A. Kock. 2. Current topics in reptile anaesthesia/Mads. F. Bertelsen. 3. Tuberculosis in captive and free-ranging wildlife/Michele Miller. 4. Tuberculosis in wild/captive animals and birds/S.K. Mishra. 5. Application of molecular markers in wildlife health and forensics/D. Swarup and M. Saini. 6. Avian influenza (bird flu) and wildlife-a global perspective/S. Nandi, K. Sharma, S.D. Audarya, I. Suresh and R.S. Chauhan. 7. Role of wild birds in spread of avian influenza/J.M. Kataria and S. Rahul. 8. Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus-an emerging threat/A.K. Srivastava, Rajeev Singh and Rajeeb K. Roy. 9. Evaluation of a vaccination programme against Avian Influenza in Danish Zoo-birds-serological response to vaccination with an inactivated H5N9 vaccine/Mads F. Bertelsen, Joan Klausen, Elisabeth Holm, Carsten Grondahl and Poul H. Jorgensen. 10. Clinical management of blood protozoan and rickettsial diseases of canine and feline/J.P. Varshney. 11. Recent advances in studies on babesiosis in big cats (Tigers and Leopards)/S. Haque. 12. Pesticide associated mortality in Indian peacocks/Rabinder Singh Aulakh and Rajnish Sharma. 13. Impact of emerging-zoo and wild animal diseases on public health/D.B. Sarode. 14. Common diseases of nonhuman primates/Kirti Dua. 15. Mortality of rhinoceros: a study from 1979 to 2006 in Assam/Apurba Chakraborty. 16. Anaesthetic and surgical management of some clinical afflictions in wild felids, herbivores and aves/M.S. Kanwar, S.K. Sharma, Adarsh Kumar, S.P. Tyagi, A.C. Varshney and Madhumeet Singh. 17. Anaesthesia of Yak (Bos grunniens)/Adarsh Kumar, S.K. Sharma, M.S. Kanwar, A.C. Varshney and J.M. Nigam. 18. Managing aggressive captive bull Asian elephants with special reference to Musth/Kushal Konwar Sarma. 19. Biology and management of Indian deer in captivity/L.N. Acharjyo. 20. In-situ wildlife conservational priorities/B.M. Arora. 21. Conservation of wild and zoo animals by assisted reproduction/S. Shivaji, G. Umapathy, Sadanand Sontakke and Anuradha Reddy. 22. Captive breeding as a conservation tool for wild animals/Dharmeshwar Das. 23. Comparative patterns of follicular dynamics in wild and domesticated ruminants/Pankaj Sood. 24. Pygmy Hog (Sus salvanius) - a critically endangered species of mammal/H. Rahman and Goutam Narayan. 25. In situ and ex situ conservation, health and management of Asiatic lion : an update/R.G. Jani. 26. Rehabilitation of injured wild animals and birds/Indramani Nath, Jasmeet Singh and Pravas Kumar Roy. 27. Scope of homeopathy in early wildlife rehabilitation/S.K. Sharma and A.C. Varshney. 28. Successful chemical capture of a marauding wild tusker, its management and rehabilitation in Orissa/R.K. Samantaray, P.K. Ray, A. Das, A.K. Mishra and A.K. Pattnaik. 29. Jammu and Kashmir armed conflict and wild life crisis/Ram Chander Sharma. 30. Chemical immobilization of large felids and management of human-leopard conflict/R.S. Kishtwaria. 31. Comparative awareness of people with different levels of education towards issues concerning wildlife/Azmat Alam Khan. 32. Evaluation of parasitic prevalence in wild and domestic animals in buffer zone of Chitwan National Park/Jeewan Thapa and Bishnu Bahadur Adhikari. 33. Sonographic study of ovarian dynamics in avian species/Mozammel Hoque. 34. Molecular epidemiology of rabies with special reference to wildlife/S. Nandi, S.D. Audarya, K. Sharma, I. Suresh and R.S. Chauhan. 35. Efficacy of fenbendazole (panacur) against helminth parasites in captive elephants of Chitwan National Park, Nepal/Sarad Paudel and Sharad Thapaliya. 36. Fur farming-status and prospects/Sarfaraz A. Wani, Asif Hassan Sofi, A.H. Malik and Azmat Alam Khan. 37. Tibetan Antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii): needs conservation/Yashwant Singh, P. Thirumurugan, Satish Manwar and A.K. Srivastava.

“The book Recent Advances in Zoo and Wild Animals Health and Management” has been compiled to disseminate the scientists, researchers, conservationists and policy makers working in the field of zoo and wild animals health and management.

Content of the book has been compiled from the selected invited lead papers either presented in or published proceeding of international congress on “Advances in Zoo and Wild Animals Health and Management” held at Jammu, India in April, 2007. The contributors of the papers are persons having vast experience in their field.

In recent years there have been significant development in scientific and technical knowledge in different aspect of zoo and wild animals health and management, the same has been compiled and presented in the form of book.

This book finds its way into the hands of those working in the concerned field to update their knowledge and relieve suffering of these animals and save them.” (jacket)