VCLS 515 — Wildlife and Aquatic Animals Medicine
Veterinary Medicine · University of Ghana
Fish anatomy, physiology, microbiology, parasitology, pathology and medicine. Fish ecology and nutrition. Capture, restraint and handling of live-trapped animals. Wildlife pharmacology, Wildlife habitats, types, values and distribution of biotic communities. Care of zoo animals. Methods of sampling of wildlife species. Dynamics and characteristics of wildlife populations, social organization of game species. Diseases of wildlife species – primates, ungulates, hares, rodents, reptiles, birds, carnivores and amphibians. Introductory aquatic ecology, fisheries management and fish cultures, fishing gears and methods. Nutritional deficiencies, neoplastic, environmental parasitic, viral, bacterial diseases of fish. Wildlife surgery and theriogenology, Agriculture.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 500
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- VCLS 501 — Avian Medicine and Pathology
- VCLS 502 — Ruminant Medicine
- VCLS 503 — Porcine Medicine
- VCLS 504 — Small and Laboratory Animal Medicine
- VCLS 505 — Small Animal Surgery
- VCLS 506 — Orthopaedic Surgery
- VCLS 507 — Epizootiology and Disease Prevention
- VCLS 508 — Surgical Diseases
- VCLS 509 — Food (meat and milk) Hygiene and Inspection
- VCLS 510 — Theriogenology
- VCLS 511 — Medicine Clinics I
- VCLS 512 — Zoonoses and Environmental Health
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).