The effect of long non-reproductive periods on the genital health in captive female white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum, C.s. cottoni)

Theriogenology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1492-1515

  Hermes, Robert ^a   Hildebrandt, Thomas Bernd ^a   Walzer, Christian ^b   Göritz, Frank ^a   Patton, Marilyn L ^c   Silinski, Sandra ^d   Anderson, Matt J ^c   Reid, Catherine E ^a   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   Tomasova, Kristina ^d   Schwarzenberger, Franz ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d Allwetter Zoo Münster ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ageing; Pathology; Reproduction failure; Ultrasound; White rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS; FECES; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; LUTEAL PHASE; PARITY; PATHOLOGY; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; TIME; UTERUS; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ESTRUS; FECES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; LUTEAL PHASE; PARITY; PERISSODACTYLA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM;

EID: 33645932614     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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