Practical Wildlife Care
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Author(s): L. Stocker
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 140512749X
Format: softback
335pp
Price: £24.99
Review Date: 10 August 2005
Review: Practical Wildlife Care was the first comprehensive manual to cover all aspects of the treatment of wildlife casualties – both from the viewpoints of the veterinary worker and the wild life expert. This new edition takes in the changing pressures on British wildlife and looks at the new problems that are arising, and the new knowledge that is now available. Les Stocker, founder of the Wildlife Hospital Trust, St Tiggywinkles, takes the reader through the many different phases of the rehabilitation process and provides essential veterinary information about every group of animals that an British rehabilitator is likely to encounter. The book begins by describing the first response, therapies and wound and fracture management of animals. It goes on to look in detail at the management of different animals: birds (garden birds, swans etc. etc.), mammals (hedgehogs, foxes etc. etc.) and reptiles and amphibians.