Juvenile mortality in captive lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis) at Basle Zoo and its relation to nutrition and husbandry

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-91

  Besselmann, Dorothea ^a   Schaub, Daniela ^a   Wenker, Christian ^b   Völlm, Jürg ^b   Robert, Nadia ^c   Schelling, Claude ^a   Steinmetz, Hanspeter ^a   Clauss, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Zoological Garden Basle   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diet; Herd size; Inbreeding; Lesser kudu; Tragelaphus imberbis; Vitamin E; White muscle disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; TRAGELAPHUS IMBERBIS;

EID: 41749091390     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/2007-0004.1     Document Type: Article

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