Exotic Pets

Question 1

What challenges can exotics pose in vet med?

Answer 1

complicated disease process
lack of available treatment
lack of owner education

Question 2

What is a wildlife rehabilitator

Answer 2

practitioners that specialize in the care and keeping of injured, ill, or orphaned wildlife

Question 3

When is federal licensing needed for a wildlife rehabilitator?

Answer 3

migratory birds, federally protected species, sea turtles, marine mammals

Question 4

If the animal is a neonate, mothers may

Answer 4

“park” their babies while they go forage for food

Question 5

What is a zoonotic disease?

Answer 5

can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa

Question 6

Examples of zoonotic diseases

Answer 6

avian influenza
salmonella
rocky mountain fever
bubonic plague
west nile virus
covid 19
rabies

Question 7

What is rabies

Answer 7

a viral infection which migrates to brain causing encephalitis

Question 8

Why is rabies so problematic

Answer 8

once symptoms appear, the result is death

Question 9

What animals can get rabies

Answer 9

raccoons, skunks, coyotes, foxes, bats

Question 10

What species in immune to rabies

Answer 10

Virginia opossums

Question 11

Furious rabies

Answer 11

affects 80% of infected people
paranoia, terror, hallucinations, delirium
Hydrophobia
hyperactivity
death by cardiac arrest

Question 12

Paralytic rabies

Answer 12

affects 20% of infected people
less dramatic and usually longer course
gradual coma
muscle weakness and loss of sensation
paralysis
death

Question 13

Nuisance Wildlife

Answer 13

often defined as an animal that is being menacing or destructive

Question 14

Examples of nuisance wildlife

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bears in yards
squirrels in attic
deer and vehicle collision
wildlife/livestock interactions

Question 15

How to handle nuisance behavior

Answer 15

USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

Question 16

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)

Answer 16

a prion disease (similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy/mad cow disease) that effects elk, deer, reindeer, sika deer, moose specifically in brain and spinal cord

Question 17

Facilities that wish to process exotic meats must apply with the

Answer 17

USDA FSIS

Question 18

Cattlo/Beefalo Production by 1900,

Answer 18

geneticists and ranchers alike were attempting to create a hybrid between bison and cattle

Question 19

In the 1960s, Jim Burnell and Bud Basolo began to

Answer 19

successfully and consistently produce Beefalo

Question 20

In 1985,

Answer 20

USDA began marketing Beefalo meat

Question 21

Studies have indicated that Beefalo meat is

Answer 21

lower in cholesterol and fat than standard beef

Question 22

What is a concern of Cattlo/Beefalo production?

Answer 22

Conservationists are concerned about crossing genetics

Question 23

When did the ostrich industry begin?

Answer 23

In the 1800s with demands for feathers

Question 24

In the early 1980s, the dead ostrich industry was revived when

Answer 24

an embargo was placed on the importation of ostrich leather

Question 25

As the “War on Fat” was waging, Americans were looking for

Answer 25

weaner sources of meat

Question 26

Ostriches produce

Answer 26

red meat that mimics beef but is lower in fat and cholesterol