VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN METABOLIC BONE DISEASE

• If wild animals are fed a diet with imbalanced calcium – phosphorous ratio or if they have chronic intestinal malabsorption, metabolic bone disease may occur in them, especially in case of species that are bone eaters like hyaena.
• To avoid this, access to sun light may be provided for the prevention of this disease. Provision of supplemental drugs enriched with calcium and phosphorous may be carried out as one of the effective preventive medicine, against the occurrence of metabolic bone disease.