Akinlade, O. O and Okusanya, P. O. (2019) MORTALITY PATTERN IN ZOO ANIMALS IN SOUTH –WEST, NIGERIA. In: 4th National Development Conference of The School of Pure and Applied Science, 2nd – 5th December, 2019, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.
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Abstract
A retrospective study was conducted to determine the mortality pattern and causes in wild captive and zoological garden animals kept at University of Ibadan zoological garden,South-West Nigeria. A total of Sixtysix (66) cases were recorded from the Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of lbadan VeterinaryTeaching Hospital, Ibadan.Between 2010 and 2015 about 66 carcasses of zoo animals were presented for post-mortem comprisinghighest number of deaths in mammals (62.1%) followed by birds (21.2%) and the least in reptiles (16.7%). The mortality pattern and rate revealed that highest mortality was among adult animals (81.8 %) and lowest was in the young ones (4.5%).
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mr Taiwo Egbeyemi |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2020 20:39 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2020 20:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/879 |
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