Author: Charles T. Robbins
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 148325884X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition fills a serious gap in the wildlife and animal nutrition literature by providing a discussion of the basic principles of nutrition and their application to the broader field of wildlife ecology. This book is based on lectures presented in an upper-level wildlife nutrition course taught at Washington State University. The book opens with an introductory chapter on wildlife nutrition. This is followed by separate chapters on general nutrient and energy requirements; protein, water, vitamin, and mineral requirements; impact of nutrition on reproductive characteristics; gastrointestinal anatomy and function; and digestion and nutrient metabolism. The text will be invaluable to wildlife biologists, to those who are interested in captive animal nutrition and management, and to those who are interested in improving the feed supply and nutrition of free-ranging wildlife. It should also be helpful to undergraduate and graduate students as well as teachers of biology and wildlife management. The book will be a useful reference for all who are interested and concerned with wildlife throughout the world.
Author: Joeke Nijboer
Publisher: EAZA Nutrition Group
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Devra G. Kleiman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0226440117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions. In one comprehensive volume, the editors have gathered the most current information from studies of animal behavior; advances in captive breeding; research in physiology, genetics, and nutrition; and new thinking in animal management and welfare. In this edition, more than three-quarters of the text is new, and information from more than seventy-five contributors is thoroughly updated. The standard text for all courses in zoo biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, in its new incarnation, continue to be used by zoo managers, animal caretakers, researchers, and anyone with an interest in how to manage animals in captive conditions.
Author: Catharine E. Bell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781579581749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: O.A. Ryder
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1984-05
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9783540132752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a quite exceptional book, a lively and approachable treatment of an important field of mathematics given in a masterly style. Assuming only a school background, the authors develop locally Euclidean geometries, going as far as the modular space of structures on the torus, treated in terms of Lobachevsky's non-Euclidean geometry. Each section is carefully motivated by discussion of the physical and general scientific implications of the mathematical argument, and its place in the history of mathematics and philosophy. The book is expected to find a place alongside classics such as Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen's 'Geometry and the imagination' and Weyl's 'Symmetry'.