This text is expensive for a book that contains only four pages of color photos. The reference section is complete and well done, which is necessary for any good text in a field such as zoological medicine. While much of chapter 7 reiterates information from chapters 4, 5, and 6, presentation in this format is useful in clinical cases. This chapter is particularly well written and very comprehensive.Ĭhapter 6 covers nutritional, toxic, and miscellaneous non-transmissible diseases.Ĭhapter 7 presents diseases by organ system. Herd management for health is emphasized in this chapter.Ĭhapter 4 deals with diseases of eggs and hatchlings.Ĭhapter 5 covers transmissible diseases. The third chapter deals with husbandry and other aspects of crocodile farming. The necropsy section is especially well written. The chemical immobilization/anesthesia sections here are brief and somewhat dated. The second chapter deals with clinical examination, procedures, and necropsy. This is, overall, a very well done chapter, although the brief section on immunology incorrectly states that other reptiles are incapable of an anamnestic response, and an important reference on mugger crocodile blood work is omitted. The first chapter addresses the biology of crocodilians. The author is South African, so farmed Nile crocodiles are emphasized, but this is an excellent and much-needed review of Crocodylidae as a whole. Although only crocodiles are mentioned in the title, this book covers the biology and medicine of all crocodilians (there is an American alligator on the cover).
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