Scales
This is the term for a bad shed in reptiles.
What is dysecdysis?
IM injections in birds are given into this muscle group.
What are the pectoral muscles?
This species is known for caring leprosy.
What are armadillos?
This is the combined exit for the reproductive, urinary, and GI tract in birds/reptiles.
What is the cloaca?
This tool helps us hear the heart rate of reptiles.
What is a Doppler?
Reptiles require UVB lighting to produce this vitamin.
What is Vitamin D?
A diet high in seeds is high in fat and low in this important vitamin.
Humans and guinea pigs cannot make this pirate-related Vitamin.
What is Vitamin C?
Since they lack a diaphragm, the combined thoracic and abdominal cavity in birds is called this.
What is the coelomic cavity (coelom)?
This percent of illness in exotic species is due to husbandry issues (within 5%).
A turtle with this vitamin deficiency might present with palpebral edema, conjunctivitis, and overgrown beak.
What is vitamin A?
Because they lack this structure, bird restraint should put minimal to no pressure around the thorax.
What is the diaphragm?
This species is illegal in California and is an induced ovulator.
What are ferrets?
Vestigial pelvis limbs in some snakes like pythons and boas are called this.
What are spurs?
This type of reptile lacks external ear openings.
What are snakes?
This disease causes "rubber jaw".
What is metabolic bone disease or (nutritional secondary) hyperparathyroidism?
This is where we palpate a bird to evaluate its body condition score.
What is along the keel (or pectoral muscles)?
This very soft species is prone to urinary calculi when on a high calcium diet.
What are chinchillas?
Rabbits and horses have this kind of GI tract.
What are hind-gut (cecal) fermenters?
Snakes and lizard skulls are lacking this structure, which allows them to swallow large prey.
What is a mandibular symphysis?
A diet too high in protein can cause this disease in herbivores like iguanas, with painful uric acid crystals in joints.
What is gout?
This disease can cause psittacosis in humans.
What is avian chlamydiosis (Clamydia psittasi)?
This viral disease of dogs is 100% fatal to ferrets.
What is distemper virus?
We give injections to reptiles in the cranial half of the body due to this unique anatomic structure.
What is the renal portal system?
A reptile heart has this many atria and ventricles.
What are 2 atria and 1 ventricle?