The Capture and Care of Wild Animals: The Work of 18 Veterinary, Medical and Wildlife Experts.

This book brings together contributions by 18 South African authors on chemical immobilization, mechanical capture, transport, accommodation, nutrition, and complications after capture and their treatment in wild animals like lions, elephants, antelopes, primates and other large mammals.

Under chemical immobilization, darting and injection equipment and techniques, immobilizing drugs in common use, their hazards, legal control and use in various species of animals, are discussed.

Complications after capture include mortality associated with the capture operation, physiological response to stress, and parasitic and infectious diseases.

The book will serve as a practical guide for those who have to deal with wild animals.

224pp., colour, as well as b+w ills.

Very Good. Pages lightly tanned. Few of the initial pages has small scar on the leading upper edge, dw. show edgewear, otherwise a neat and tight copy in likewise dw. Dw. in protective plastic sleeve..

Hardcover.

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