Lecture The safety to be followed during lessons, while perfoming clinical examinations. 1. Zoology of falconry. Species of hunting raptors and their specific use for hunting. Historical aspects and development of falconry in world and Slovakia. Lesson: 1. Anatomy and physiology of raptors in relations to falconry utilization. 2. Basics of manipulation, fixations and identifications of raptors, preventative veterinary interventions in relations to husbandry and captive breeding. 3. Breeding facilities, falconry equipment, feeding and handling raptors in captivity. Lecture 2. Training of falconry birds. Types of hunting style and use of fitness training in rehabilitation in wildlife casualities. Lesson: 1. Stages of falconry training, differencies in various species. 2. Injuries and diseases in realtion to mishandling and mistraining. 3. Care and treatment of widlife casualities, methods of successful rehabilitation Lecture: 3.Legislations and regulations concerning falconry. Falconry as element of UNESCO cultural heritage Lesson: 1.Traumatic injuries of raptors in wild and veterinary principals of treatment 2. Prevention of diseases of falconry birds 3. Breeding of birds in captivity Lecture: 4.Veterinary care of orphan and abandoned babies of mammalian species. Synentropization of animals Lesson: 1. Veterinary prevention in juvenile mammals 2. Milk substitution and feeding orphaned babies 3. Back to wild release. Identification of released animals. Ladislav Molnar, DVM, PhD. |