New Zoo Book

Today's mail included a mailer introducing a new book, "Wildlife Contraception".

The Johns Hopkins University Press, in cooperation with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association(AZA), published the book by Cheryl S. Asa, director of research at St Louis Zoo and codirector of the AZA Wildlife Contraception Center with co-author Ingrid J. Porton, curator of primates at the St. Louis Zoo.

"Provides powerful approaches to controlling reproduction in those populations without disrupting the social structures and behavior of the animals involved. A fine work." - George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society.

"Those populations" covered by the book are carnivores, non-human primates, ungulates, pinnipeds and cetaceans, as well as "other mammals".

"The Ethics of Wildlife Contraception" is Part 1, Chapter 1. Regulatory issues, methods, and effects are dealt with, as well as "contraception agents in aggression control" and "contraception in free-ranging wildlife" according to the mailer.