Animal Studies

Contents: Introduction -- Nutritional terms and definitions -- The life cycle and nutrient requirements -- Glucose and fatty acids: providers of body structure and function -- Amino acids and proteins: providers of bdody structure and function -- Vitamins: cofactors for nutrient metabolism -- Minerals: a providing many functions -- The basics of nutrient requirements: water, energy, and protein -- Getting ready to make foods: ingredients, preparation, and processing -- Formulation, analysis, and labelling: foods to meet requirements -- Nutrition of canines through the life cycle -- Nutrition of cats, the true carnivores -- Nutrition of non-ruminant herbivores: horses -- Nutrition of the rabbit, a lagomorph -- Llamas and alpacas: ruminant companions -- Nutrition of ornamental birds -- Nutrition of aquarium fish -- Nutrition of rodents -- Nutrition of reptiles.

Nutrition is a very broad discipline, encompassing biochemistry, physiology, endocrinology, immunology, microbiology and pathology. Presenting the major principles of nutrition of both domestic and wild animals, this book takes a comparative approach, recognising that there are considerable differences in nutrient digestion, metabolism and requirements among various mammalian and avian species. Explaining species differences in food selection, food-seeking and digestive strategies and their significance to nutritional needs, chapters cover a broad range of topics including digestive physiology, metabolic disorders and specific nutrients such as carbohydrates proteins and lipids, with particular attention being paid to nutritional and metabolic idiosyncrasies.

Nutrition and Disease Management for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses, Second Edition offers a thorough update and significant expansion of this easy-to-use introduction to veterinary nutrition and diet, with broader species coverage, a new section on nutritional management of disease, and many new chapters.