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| Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine
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Edition: 5
Author: Murray E. Fowler (Editor), R. Eric Miller (Editor)
Publisher: Saunders
Release Date: 2003-06-06
ISBN-10: 0721694993
ISBN-13: 9780721694993
List Price: $150.00
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This thoroughly revised, up-to-date text covers diagnosis and treatment of all zoo and wild animals, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and camelidae. Logically organized by species, the consistent, user-friendly format addresses an animal's biology, unique anatomy, special physiology, restraint and handling, special housing requirements, feeding, surgery and anesthesia, diagnostics, and diseases. Multinational contributors bring their expertise related to many of the species from countries outside of North America.
Essential for Zoo medicine
| Customer Rating: | | brilliant book for anyone interested in zoo medicine. Covering every aspect and common conditions and diseases. |
Great book
| Customer Rating: | | I think this is a must have book for anyone interested in wildlife medicine, it helped me a great deal through college and i'm still needing it! |
The most disappointing book in the series...
| Customer Rating: | | When this book first came out, I thought it would be great. I was very disappointed by the brevity and superficial coverage of the chapters. This book, in order to be a truly comprehensive reference, should have been three times as big. This is the first time that a new edition is actually less useful than an older edition (Fowler 2 is a lot better!). The quality of chapters is very variable, with some being excellent and some flat out atrocious. (The crocodilian chapter is the best example of a "lacking" chapter). There are also a lot of typos (different spelling for some drug names) and inaccurate doses, which is disappointing. There are a lot of tables that are neither user-friendly nor clinically useful. However, this is one place to start with reference material to zoo animal species. It is not as nice as Fowler #2, but certainly more up to date and easier to acquire. It just has a "draft form" feel to it in content and editing. The book seems to be printed in a cheap quality paper that rips way too easily. |
disappointingly limited by format
| Customer Rating: | | Numbers 3 and 4 of this series were updates of specific topics, much like the "current veterinary therapy" series. This, like Editions 1 and 2, attempts to cover all of zoo medicine in one volume. As this is a rapidly expanding body of knowledge, it is no longer really possible to fit into a single volume. There are very brief overviews of each species without enough depth present- this is not due to the authors, but the format. Especially disappointing is the apparent limitation on the number of references for each section. Providing references on where to look for further information would have made this book much more useful. Hopefully future editions will either show a return to the topic oriented format of 3 and 4, be a multi-volume set containing enough information to be useful, or at least contain sufficient references to be useful as a good bibliography. |
similar to 1st edition
| Customer Rating: | This text is basically a new, up-to-date version of the 1st edition of Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine (which is out of print and difficult to come by). For that reason I think it is wonderful.
I do think the editor's review is slightly misleading because there is very little information regarding specific diagnoses and their treatments. Instead there are lists of diseases which different species are prone to getting and formulary charts for the different species. If you want detailed information about a specific disease, diagnostics, and various treatment options, this book is not ideal.
What this book is great for: species biology, husbandry, basic zoo medicine... |
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