Environmental Conditions
This portion of veterinary care is defined as: controlled cultivation, management, and production of domestic animals, including improvement of qualities considered desirable by humans by means of breeding for all animals bred and raised for utility, sport, pleasure, and research.
What is animal husbandry?
When transporting this breed of animal we use a "football" hold to prevent lumbar spinal injury.
What is a rabbit?
The term for the whole body of the bird.
What is the coelom?
This species begins life in water with gills then matures to develop lungs to live in either water or on land.
What is an amphibian?
The term for the normal behavior of eating of feces to retain vitamins and nutrients.
What is coprophagy?
When an animal has adjusted to a certain amount of light/dark cycle over 24 hours.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
This species of animal is relatively docile and responds best by being picked up under the armpits with support under the pelvis.
What is the rat?
Palpating this area, and it feels sharp, leads you to give this avian patient a lower BCS.
What is palpation of the keel bone?
The term for shedding the outer layer of keratinous scales.
What is ecdysis?
Rats, mice, and rabbits all have hypsodontic incisors that also continue to grow throughout their lifetime. What is the term for this continued growth?
What is elodont teeth?
Humidity, the measure of the amount of moisture in the air, should be in what range for rats, mice, rabbits, and hamsters?
What is 30-70%?
Similar to felines, rabbits enjoy this type of restraint that makes them feel secure while allowing access to their head and ears for blood draws.
What is towel wrapping?
In a beak to tail exam you would check this area for cloacal prolapse, parasites, or enlargement indicating breeding readiness.
What is the vent?
The upper dome of a turtle's shell.
What is the carapace?
The stress or aggression response in mice when kept in over crowded conditions causing hair to be plucked from around the face.
What is barbering?
The environmental cause of tail necrosis in rodents from lack of hydration in the skin.
What is caused by low humidity?
You should always grab here when removing a mouse from their enclosure to avoid being bitten.
What is the base of the tail?
Plucking the blood feather from the bird to cause coagulation.
What is the correct response to accidently trimming a blood feather?
The term referring to a habitat that allows for vertical climbing structures.
What is arboreal habitats?
What are lagomprphs?
The term for a female mouse aborting their pregnancy when introduced to a strange male within 4 days on initial breeding.
What is the Bruce Effect?
Restraint of this animal requires you hold their whole body without constricting their breathing because they don't have a diaphragm.
What is avian restraint?
This is the internal nasal passage for birds; it should have sharp clean edges.
What is the choanal slit?
What is calcium?
The anatomical area a female rabbit will pluck fur for her nest.
What is the dewlap?