• Provides veterinarians, students, biologists, zoologists, wildlife carers and other wildlife professionals with the most up-to-date information on the medical management of Australian native mammals.
    • Clinically oriented with an emphasis on practical content and easy-to-use reference material.
    • Appendices provide useful reference data and information on clinical reference ranges, recommended venipuncture sites, chemical restraint agent doses and regimens, a drug formulary and dental charts.
    • Authored by Australian experts.
    • Companion volume to Medicine of Australian Mammals.

    "This new edition of the textbook will very quickly become the go to practical resource for wildlife veterinarians and others involved in the care and management of Australian mammals, as well as being avidly devoured by the next generation of wildlife veterinary professionals currently in their undergraduate years"
    Wildlife Outreach Vet, LinkedIn, 9 June 2025

    Praise for the first edition:

    "A thorough, well-researched, and referenced yet practical, clinically oriented, and easy-to-use reference."
    Amy L. Shima, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 50(3), 2019

    "With a masterly mix of experience, a most readable format, and excellent images, the editors and authors have set a high standard."
    Robert Johnson, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 56(1), January 2020

    "With the release of Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals, we are reminded that there is a wealth of incredible veterinary and scientific minds working passionately in the wildlife conservation sector to progress and enhance the care and conservation of mammals worldwide. This volume ...has far-reaching global applications."
    Phil Tucak, The Journal of Wildlife Management 84(2), 2020

  • Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    List of contributors

    SECTION 1 GENERAL TOPICS AND CONDITIONS AFFECTING MULTIPLE TAXA
    1 Wildlife health in Australia
    2 Veterinary aspects of native mammal conservation translocations
    3 Disease risk analysis for wildlife translocations
    4 Wildlife rehabilitation practices in Australia
    5 Assessment and management of reproduction in Australian monotremes and marsupials
    6 Management of overabundant populations
    7 Monotreme, marsupial and bat immunology
    8 Stress physiology of Australian mammals
    9 Capture, physical and chemical restraint
    10 Surgery
    11 Pharmacology
    12 Dermatology
    13 Dentistry
    14 Nutrition
    15 Paediatrics
    16 Zoonoses
    17 Antimicrobial resistance
    18 Neoplasia
    19 Plant and other toxicoses
    20 Emerging infectious diseases
    21 Toxoplasmosis
    22 Mycobacteriosis
    23 Marsupial herpesviruses
    24 Neural angiostrongyliasis
    25 Cryptococcosis
    26 Haemoprotozoan parasites
    27 Assessment, triage and treatment of bushfire-affected wildlife

    SECTION 2 TAXON-SPECIFIC UPDATES AND TOPICS
    28 Platypus
    29 Short-beaked echidna
    30 Coccidiosis in short-beaked echidnas
    31 Macropods
    32 Macropod progressive periodontal disease (‘lumpy jaw’)
    33 Koala
    34 Koala retrovirus
    35 Chlamydiosis in koalas
    36 Veterinary involvement in the research and management of free-ranging koala populations
    37 Wombats
    38 Possums and gliders
    39 Dasyurids and the numbat
    40 Devil facial tumour disease
    41 Bandicoots and the greater bilby
    42 Bats
    43 Hendra virus
    44 Rodents
    45 Pinnipeds
    46 Cetaceans
    47 Dugong

    Appendix 1. Clinical pathology and physiological values
    Appendix 2. Blood collection sites
    Appendix 3. Suggested chemical restraint agents, regimens and doses
    Appendix 4. Drug formulary
    Appendix 5. Dentition charts for selected Australian mammal Families
    Appendix 6. Abbreviations
    Colour plates
    Index

  • Larry Vogelnest has worked as a zoo and wildlife veterinarian with the Taronga Conservation Society Australia since 1990. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Zoo Medicine. Larry has been the Senior Veterinarian at Taronga Zoo for 30 years, and in 2023 he took on the role of Senior Veterinarian for the NSW Sentinel Koala Population Monitoring Program.

    Timothy Portas has worked exclusively with managed and free-ranging wildlife since 1999 and is currently the Wildlife Veterinary Director for RSPCA Queensland. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Zoo Medicine, a Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine and an adjunct senior lecturer at Murdoch University.

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