Date of Award
8-9-2014
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Biological Sciences
First Advisor
Adam Hartstone-Rose
Abstract
The predominant diet fed to captive carnivores consists of ground meat formulated to provide full nutritional requirements. However, this ground meat diet completely lacks the mechanical properties such as toughness, hardness and stiffness of the foods the animals would eat in the wild. The goal of this research was to evaluate the effect of mechanical properties of diet on oral health by comparing prevalence of periodontal disease and calculus accumulation in wild and captive felids. One-way ANOVA analysis of variance indicated that these differences are statistically significant (P
Rights
© 2014, Varsha Kapoor
Recommended Citation
Kapoor, V.(2014). Mechanical Properties of Diet and Its Effect on Oral Health. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2841