The Veterinary Forensic Necropsy

Forensic Veterinary Medicine

Death investigations usually centre on the elucidation on the cause of death. This usually includes a full autopsy. Furthermore, ballistics and toxicology may be employed in some cases. Mostly, however, the cause of death can be found by macroscopical examination or histology in cases where no gross findings are in evidence at the time of autopsy. Examples are cases of poaching, traffic acciden...

The potential role of forensic pathologists in veterinary forensic medicine.

Introduction to Veterinary and Comparative Forensic Medicine

Introduction to Veterinary and Comparative Forensic Medicine

Forensic veterinary science of bite wounds.

C. J. MAnniOn and colleagues raise some valid issues in their letter about preventing dog bite wounds in people (VR, June 4, 2011, vol 168, p 594). The issue of bite marks on or from animals is a developing and specialised field of forensic veterinary science. Bite mark analysts are often called to give professional and expert testimony in court on bite marks from an animal that may bite anothe...