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

FLUKE INFECTION IN PARIAH KITES

• The eggs were oval and measured 100 x 60 μ , light brownish, thin shelled and is an embryonated egg. Enormous no. of eggs were seen in the sample.
• Diplostomatid fluke and cryptocotyle spp have been reported in the raptors inhabitating the digestive tract. The infection usually causes emaciation and diarrohea.