Field immobilization of pygmy spotted skunks from Mexico

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 186-189

  López González, Carlos A ^a   González Romero, Alberto ^a   Laundré, John W ^a,b   Cantú Salazar, Lisette ^a   Hidalgo Mihart, Mircea G ^a   De Villa Meza, Alejandra ^c   Martínez Meyer, Enrique ^c   Casariego Madorell, Ma Antonieta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Immobilization; Ketamine; Pygmy spotted skunk; Spilogale pygmaea; Xylazine

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE; MALE; MEPHITIDAE; MEXICO; TIME FACTORS; XYLAZINE;

EID: 0031608783     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.1.186     Document Type: Article

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