ANZCCART Facts Sheets

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The eleventh and twelfth additions to the ANZCCART Facts Sheet series on biology and management of species used in biomedical research are: The Domestic Chicken (1996, by Philip Glatz, Kim Critchley and Christine Lunam), and Restraint and Handling of Captive Wildlife (1996, by Andrew Tribe and Derek Spielman). The leaflet on the domestic chicken provides brief introductions to the history of the chicken in captivity, its housing, husbandry, major diseases, and techniques of blood sampling and anaesthesia. That on restraint and handling of wildlife includes sections on remote drug administration systems and drugs used, and on restraint of a few selected groups or taxa: medium-sized and large primates, medium-sized carnivores and ungulates, and reptiles (not birds). Like others in the series, these are useful introductory leaflets for trainee animal technicians, veterinary nurses and others, and they provide references to some of the more substantial publications that personnel planning to work in these fields would certainly need to be familiar with.