UC Davis의 명예교수이자 코끼리와 낙타류를 비롯한 야생동물에 지대한 관심을 갖고 있는 Murray Fowler 선생님의 신간입니다.

여러가지 동물의 보정, 특히 보정간의 행동학, 체온유지, 동물복지와 보정으로 인하여 발생가능한 의학적인 상황 등에 대하여 빠짐없이 다루고 있으며 개, 고양이, 말, 당나귀, 소, 양, 염소, 낙타류, 실험동물(설치류), 조류 외에 수많은 야생동물에 대하여 다루고 있읍니다.

동물원, 특수동물 진료의에게 필독서로 추천합니다.

특수동물 진료가 증가되어가는 현재 일선 동물병원에서도 고려해볼만한 신간입니다.

Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals, Third Edition offers an introduction to the basic principles of animal restraint and an overview of techniques for vertebrate wild and domestic animals. Fully updated throughout, the third edition also includes new chapters on understanding behavior, training for restraint and handling, and animal welfare and restraint. Now in full color, the third edition of this classic reference is an invaluable tool to recognizing potential danger in restraint and reducing stress in the animal.

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Part I.

1. General concepts.

2. Tools of restraint.

3. Ropes and knots.

4. Thermoregulation.

5. Understanding behavior (new).

6. Training for restraint and handling (new).

7. Stress/distress.

8. Animal welfare and restraint (new).

9. Medical problems during restraint.

Part II (Domestic animals).

10. Horses, mules, donkeys.

11. Cattle and other domestic bovids.

12. Sheep and goats.

13. Swine.

14. Camelids (new).

15. Dogs.

16. Cats.

17. Laboratory rodents and rabbits.

18. Poultry and domestic waterfowl.

Part III (Wild animals).

19. Delivery Systems (Moved from Part I).

20. Chemical immobilization.

21. Monotremes and marsupials.

22. Small mammals (bats, insectivores, edentata, pangolin, rabbits, rodents, aardvark, hyrax).

23. Carnivores.

24. Nonhuman primates.

25. Marine mammals.

26. Elephants.

27. Other megavertebrates.

28. Hoofed stock.

29. Wild birds.

30. Reptiles.

31. Amphibians and fish.

Part IV.

Appendices

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