By Huw Golledge and Claire Richardson
The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals 9th Edition delivers an up-to-date and authoritative exploration on worldwide developments, current thinking, and best practices in the field of laboratory animal welfare science and technology.
The gold standard in laboratory and captive animal care and management references, this latest edition continues the series’ tradition of excellence by including brand-new chapters on ethical review, the care of aged animals, and fresh guidance on the care of mole rats, corvids, zebrafish, and decapods.
The book offers introductory chapters covering a variety of areas of laboratory animal use, as well as chapters on the management and care of over 30 different taxa of animals commonly utilised in scientific procedures and research around the world.
The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals Ninth Edition is essential for laboratory animal scientists, veterinarians, animal care staff, animal care regulatory authorities, legislators, and professionals working in animal welfare non-governmental organizations.
Features
• A thorough introduction to the design of animal experiments, laboratory animal genetics, and the phenotyping of genetically modified mice
• Comprehensive explorations of animal welfare assessment and the ethical review process
• Practical discussions of legislation and oversight of the conduct of research using animals from a global perspective
• In-depth examinations of the planning, design, and construction of efficient animal facilities, special housing arrangements, and nutrition, feeding, and animal welfare
Table of Contents
Part 1: Implementing the Three Rs in Research Using Animals
1. Introduction
2. The Three Rs
3. The Design of Animal Experiments
4. An Introduction to Laboratory Animal Genetics
5. Phenotyping of Genetically Modified Mice
6. Brief Introduction to Welfare Assessment: A ‘Toolbox’ of Techniques
7. Welfare and ‘Best Practice’ in Field Studies of Wildlife
8. Legislation and Oversight of the Conduct of Research Using Animals: A Global Overview
9. Planning, Design and Construction of the Modern Animal Facility
10. Environmental Enrichment: Animal Welfare and Scientific Validity
11. Special Housing Arrangements
12. Transportation of Laboratory Animals
13. Nutrition, Feeding and Animal Welfare
14. Attaining Competence in the Care of Animals Used in Research
15. The Use of Positive Reinforcement Training Techniques to Enhance the Care and Welfare of Laboratory and Research Animals
16. 3Rs Considerations When Using Ageing Animals in Science
17. Euthanasia and Other Fates for Laboratory Animals
18. Ethics Review of Animal Research
19. Appendix
Part 2: Species Kept in the Laboratory – Mammals
20. The Laboratory Opossum
21. Tree Shrews
22. The Laboratory Mouse
23. The Laboratory Rat
24. The Laboratory Gerbil
25. The Syrian Hamster
26. Voles
27. The Naked Mole-Rat
28. Appendix A
29. The Guinea Pig
30. The Laboratory Rabbit
Carnivora
31. The Ferret
32. The Laboratory Dog
33. The Domestic Cat
Ungulates
34. Pigs and Minipigs
35. Cattle
36. Sheep and Goats
37. The Horse
Non-Human Primates
38. The Mouse Lemurs
39. Marmosets and Tamarins
40. Capuchin Monkeys
41. Old World Monkeys
Birds
42. The Domestic Fowl
43. The Japanese Quail
44. The Zebra Finch
45. Pigeons and Doves
46. The European Starling
47. Corvids
Reptiles and Amphibia
48. Terrestrial Reptiles: Lizards, Snakes and Tortoises
49. An Amphibian ‘Laboratory Model’, Xenopus
Fish
50. Fishes
51. Zebrafish
Cephalopoda
52. Cephalopoda
Decapoda
53. Decapod Crustaceans
54. Index
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