Provides practical guidance in the husbandry of Australian marsupials and other mammals. It dedicates a chapter to each group of animals and gives details on its biology, housing, capture and restraint, transport, diet, breeding, artificial rearing, behaviour and behaviouran enrichment.
The Indian rhinoceros is a fascinating subject for the zoo historian . The first rhinoceroses seen in Europe ( after Roman times ) belonged to this species , and it has been consistently imported in small numbers ever since .