BIO447 Captive Animal Health (8)
Prerequisite: BIO443
Enrolment Restriction: Must be enrolled in the G Dip Capt Vert Mgt course, or if not in this course, must have the approval of both Course Co-ordinators.
This subject deals with the issue of keeping captive animals healthy. It covers areas such as parasitology, pathology, nutrition, stress, reproduction, health monitoring and preventative medicine. It incorporates not only those disease processes which are significant for intensive captive facilities but those which are significant for larger more extensive facilities such as exclusion zones and isolated nature refuges.