Disease and epizootiology: basic principles -- Special problems in working with free-living animals -- Diseases investigation -- Identifying and defining a disease -- Collecting population data -- Defining environmental variables -- Formulating and testing hypotheses -- Samples, sampling and sample collection -- Records and record keeping -- Investigation of disease outbreaks and chronic or inapparent disease -- Disease management -- Disease management: general principles -- Management of the causative agent/factor or its vector -- Disease management through manipulation of the host population -- Disease management through treatment and immunization -- Disease management through environmental modification -- Disease management through influencing human activities -- Emergency and integrated management programs -- Assessing the effectiveness of a disease management program -- Scientific names of birds and mammals.