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DISEASES AND MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF HOUBARA

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<strong>DISEASES</strong> <strong>AND</strong> <strong>MEDICAL</strong> <strong>MANAGEMENT</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>HOUBARA</strong> BUSTARDS <strong>AND</strong> OTHER<br />

OTIDIDAE<br />

Tom Bailey<br />

ISBN 978-9948-03-562-6<br />

Published 2008, Emirates Printing Press LLC, Dubai<br />

494 pages<br />

The most comprehensive book published on the management and veterinary care of<br />

bustards has finally been published! This book will be an essential reference to those<br />

working with captive or wild bustards, and it also contains a wealth of information that will<br />

make it useful to anyone working with many other species of birds in the Middle East. The<br />

book has been supported by the National Avian Research Centre, Abu Dhabi, one of the<br />

foremost organisations conducting research on and breeding the houbara bustard. An<br />

international team of authors have contributed chapters to the book. The Table of Contents<br />

is listed below:<br />

Table of Contents<br />

Chapter Section 1 – Conservation, Biomedical Programmes and Captive Management of Bustards<br />

1. Introduction<br />

Tom Bailey<br />

2. Veterinary Considerations of Bustard Captive Breeding, Rehabilitation and Restoration<br />

Programmes<br />

Tom Bailey<br />

3. Important Aspects of Managing Bustards in Captivity<br />

Tom Bailey and Olivier Combreau<br />

Section 2 – Clinical Investigations and Laboratory Diagnostics<br />

4. Clinical Workup of Bustards<br />

Tom Bailey, Antonio Di Somma and Christudas Silvanose<br />

5. Biochemistry of Bustards<br />

Tom Bailey<br />

6. Haematology of Bustards<br />

Jaime Samour and Judith Howlett<br />

7. Bustard Diagnostic Cytology<br />

Christudas Silvanose and Tom Bailey<br />

8. Radiology of Bustards<br />

Jesus Naldo<br />

9. Endoscopy of Bustards<br />

Jaime Samour<br />

10. Surgery and Anaesthesia<br />

Tom Bailey<br />

11. Post-mortem Examination and Biomedical Reference Collections<br />

Philip Nicholls, Tom Bailey and François Lampen<br />

Section 3 - Therapeutics and Preventive Medicine

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