The need to hand-raise infant mammals is common in zoos and wildlife centres where young wild animals are rejected, orphaned or have medical problems. This book addresses the neonatal care and feeding of common zoo and domestic species.

pt. I.Domestic Mammals. -- 1. Orphan Rabbits / Karen Heller Taylor. -- 2. Puppies / Valerie T. Barrette. -- 3. Domestic Kittens / Laura Summers. -- 4. Critically Ill and Orphaned Foals / K. Gary Magdesian. -- 5. Pigs / Janet Fine and Rebecca Duerr. -- 6. Goat Kids / Joan D. Rowe. -- 7. South American Camelids / Robert J. Pollard and Susan D. Pollard -- pt. II. Wildlife, Zoo, and Marine Mammals. -- 8. Opossums / Paula Taylor. -- 9. Sugar Gliders / Michele Barnes. -- 10. Macropods / Rosemary Booth. -- 11. Hedgehogs / Ian Robinson. -- 12. Sloths / Judy Avey-Arroyo. -- 13. Ground and Tree Squirrels / Dawn M. Smith. -- 14. Insectivorous Bats / Susan M. Barnard. -- 15. Lemurs / Cathy V. Williams. -- 16. Tamarins / Laurie Hrdlicka and Cynthia Stringfield.