This chapter presents the housing, feeding, reproduction, physiology, immunology, behaviour, diseases, welfare, handling, restraint, pharmacology, surgery and other laboratory procedures in snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodilians.

Diagnostic investigations and tests play a key part in the detection, identification, and study of parasites, and in the determination of their role in disease. Although some require the expertise and facilities of a specialist laboratory, many others can be performed easily, competently, and at...