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

CAPILLARIASIS IN COCKATOO

• The Eggs are more (or) less barrel shaped with fine bipolar plugs resembling Trichuris eggs. These worms are commonly called as ' Thread worms ' and are frequently found in newly imported macaws and in aviaries.
• Further they have been encountered in wild passerines. Depending on the species the lifecycle is direct (or) indirect involving earthworm as intermediate host.