Background: Haemoproteus and Plasmodium species are widespread avian blood parasites. Several Plasmodium species are known for their high virulence and have caused significant declines in naïve bird populations. The impact of closely related Haemoproteus parasites is largely unknown. Recently we...

Background: The genus Orthobornavirus comprises RNA viruses infecting humans, mammals, birds and reptiles, where parrot bornavirus 1 to 8 causes fatal neurological and/or gastrointestinal syndromes in psittacines. There is, to the best of our knowledge, no publication describing avian bornaviruses...

Sarcosystis calchasi is an emerging pathogen causing encephalitis in many avian species and has been documented in North America, Germany and Japan. In November 2019, a captive Patagonian conure (Cyanoliseus patagonus), kept in a zoological aviary in Finland, was euthanized due to acute respiratory ...

This set of proceedings contains papers from the International Conference on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals, held in Barcelona, Spain on 13-16 May 2015. The papers focused on assessing zoo animal welfare, wild and zoo animal diseases, pharmacology, surgery, and aquarium medicine.

This set of proceedings consists of papers from the British Veterinary Zoological Society Spring Meeting 2014, held in Winchester, UK, on 26-27 April 2014. The papers focused on the breeding, conservation, health, reproduction, welfare, and diagnosis and disease (fungal, bacterial, and parasitic)...

Small game animals are generally hunted with lead gunshot which often fragments causing elevated lead concentrations in meat and presenting health risks to frequent consumers and vulnerable groups. We reviewed three decades of European data on lead concentrations in the meat of gamebirds, rabbits...

The book "Project Wolf", by Lars Berge, was inspired by a tragedy that took place in 2012, in the Swedish zoological garden. The close contact with wolves was offered there. It was designed as a commercial service for visitors promoting the zoo as an attractive place to spend time. Within the...

Background: Reptiles are known to be asymptomatic carriers of Salmonella spp. in their gastrointestinal mucosa and a variety of Salmonella serovars including exotic serovars mainly associated with reptiles as well as human pathogenic serovars have been isolated. There are many case reports of...

In 1821-1918, 72 European bison, comprising 29 males and 43 females, were caught in Białowieża Forest and transported to various game parks and zoological gardens. Young bison were captured, usually a male and a female at a time. Zoos in Berlin, Moscow, London, Paris, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm ...