AKF Special Issue Table of Contents - April/May 2009
The Care and Management of Geriatric Animals in Zoos
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- From the President - Remembering the Golden Girls
- Acknowledgements from the Editor
- The Future is Now: New Strategies for Geriatric Care at the Oakland Zoo
- Some Thoughts on Veterinary Considerations on the Management of the Geriatric Zoo Patient
- Pachyderm Milestones
- The Oldest of the Old
- An Easy Way Out: PVC Ladder Assists Geriatric Animals
- The Old Hippo That Could
- Searching for Your Support (GoodSearch.com)
- It’s a Geriatric Jungle Out There
- Joint Disease and Its Management in Captive Bear Species
- Never Too Late
- Assiniboine Park Zoo’s Debby the Polar Bear
- The Widower - Care of a Geriatric Bird at The National Aviary
- The Care and Management of Geriatric Gorillas in Captivity and The Role of Louisville Zoo’s Husbandry Program
- Gravity and Hydrotherapy Procedures as a Way to Reduce the Possibility of Stiffening Joints in Elephants After an Injury
- A Public Relations Professional’s Look at Geriatric Animals and Euthanasia
- Donna the Hippo is 57 years Old
- Using Cue Conditioning to Facilitate Voluntary Separation for Supplemental Feeding in a Geriatric 0.1 Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah)
- World’s Oldest Asian Elephant Lived to be 86 Years Old
- Some Considerations in the Care of an Elderly Red-Ruffed Lemur
- Collaborative Management and Interpretation of Arthritis in a Geriatric Giraffe
- Indoors Natural Substrates for Elephants and Medical Issues Associated with Hard Surfaces
- Old Bears, New Care
- Improving the Quality of Life for Tiffany, a 40-year-old Female Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla g. gorilla) at the Topeka Zoo
- Topeka Zoo’s Long-lived Hippo Duo
- Ode to the Oldies: Geriatric Keepers Caring for Geriatric Critters
- Longevity in the Animal Kingdom