Lecture 5/6

Question 1

What are the ultimate goals of preventive medicine?

Answer 1

(Prevent disease, disability, and death)

Question 2

Historically, infectious disease control (biosecurity, vaccination, parasite control programs, and pest management) took up a lot of time/money in zoological medicine but things have shifted to include the importance of non-infectious disease control, what things fall under non-infectious dz control?

Answer 2

(Nutrition and welfare monitoring)

Question 3

What does it mean that preventative medicine is a point of balance in zoological medicine?

Answer 3

(To be able to routinely examine zoo species, they need to be anesthetized and/or captured which both have their own risks but routine examination is also important, goal should be to balance these things to come up with an appropriate preventative health plan)

Question 4

(T/F) Cheetahs are put on the same vaccination protocol as domestic cats.

Answer 4

(T)

Question 5

Why might a traditional 30 day quarantine not work for a Javelina?

Answer 5

(They are natural herd animals and high stress is associated with being alone, herds are also so tight knit that it is best to anesthetize the entire herd rather than one individual because individual animals reintroduced to the herd can be killed by the others)

Question 6

What are the 5 freedoms of animal welfare?

Answer 6

(Freedom from hunger and thirst, freedom from discomfort, freedom from pain, injury, and dz, freedom to express normal behavior, freedom from fear and distress)

Question 7

What species fall under Order Monotremata?

Answer 7

(Echidnas and platypus → prototherians or egg bearing mammals)

Question 8

Adaptations for hypoxia in monotremes are primarily related to the blood, what are those adaptations?

Answer 8

(High PCV, high RBC count, high hemoglobin content, and low MCV)

Question 9

Marsupial metabolism is about what percentage lower than placental metabolism?

Answer 9

(30%)

Question 10

What is the normal body temperature range for animals in the Xenarthra order?

Answer 10

(86-95 F)

Question 11

How is the Primate order further divided?

Answer 11

(Prosimians and simians)

Question 12

How is the Simian suborder further divided?

Answer 12

(New world and old world monkeys)

Question 13

How is the ape superfamily further divided?

Answer 13

(Lesser and greater apes)

Question 14

Is Simian Immunodeficiency virus resistance associated with african or asian lineage simians?

Answer 14

(African lineages have resistance, asian lineages are very susceptible to SIV)

Question 15

What is the adult male rhino dose of etorphine?

Answer 15

(3 mg/animal)

Question 16

(T/F) Perissodactylids are extremely sensitive to xylazine for use in sedation protocols, the usual dose is 0.1-0.2 mg/kg.

Answer 16

(F, Artiodactylids are extremely sensitive to xylazine, perissodacytlid dose is 1-2 mg.kg)

Question 17

Are Perissodactlya or Artiodactlya even toed ungulates?

Answer 17

(Artiodactyla are even toed, Perissodactlya are odd toed)