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This work describes the medical and surgical main aspects of the senior patient. It addresses the peculiarities of the diseases typical of this stage of life, their diagnosis, and the care and special treatment they require, with a special emphasis on the most recent medical and surgical approaches.
Esta obra muestra los principales aspectos clínicos que debe tener en cuenta el veterinario al enfrentarse a un paciente canino de edad avanzada. Aborda las particularidades de las diferentes enfermedades por sistemas propias de esta etapa de la vida, su protocolo de diagnóstico, cuidados y tratamientos especiales, haciendo hincapié en los planteamientos médicos y quirúrgicos más actuales y en el manejo de la anestesia para los diferentes procesos quirúrgicos. El objetivo es ofrecer unas pautas claras que sirvan de guía eficaz en los programas de salud del perro geriátrico.
This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga’s geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It also discusses the major threats to the region’s socio-ecological systems and includes chapters on climate change and fast and large-scale land-use changes, as well as slow and small-scale changes, also known as chronic human disturbances. Subsequent chapters address sustainable agriculture, conservation systems, and sustainable development. Lastly, the book proposes 10 major actions that could enable the transformation of Caatinga into a place where people and nature can thrive together. “I consider this b...
Ethnozoology: Animals In Our Lives represents the first book about this discipline, providing a discussion on key themes on human-animal interactions and their implications, along with recent major advances in research. Humans share the world with a bewildering variety of other animals, and have interacted with them in different ways. This variety of interactions (both past and present) is investigated through ethnozoology, which is a hybrid discipline structured with elements from both the natural and social sciences, as it seeks to understand how humans have perceived and interacted with faunal resources throughout history. In a broader context, ethnozoology, and its companion discipline, ...