Crocodiles : biology, husbandry and diseases /

This book was written for veterinarians, scientists, wildlife officials, students and crocodile farmers. The gathered data was based on years of work with farmed Nile crocodiles, some with wild and wild-caught African dwarf crocodiles in the Congo Republic, as well as on information from available l...

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Main Author: Huchzermeyer, F. W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
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505 0 # |a Crocodiles and Alligators -- Examination of Crocodiles and Clinical Procedures -- Important Aspects of Crocodile Farming -- Diseases of Eggs and Hatchlings -- Transmissible Diseases -- Non-transmissible Diseases -- Organ Diseases and Miscellaneous Conditions. 
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