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The Craniometric and Prosoprometric study is of great value to establish data that may become a key to identification of the species. Morphometric and descriptive data of psittacine skulls are scarce in the literature. The present study aimed to describe the main bones and to establish measures of the skull of "Blue-winged parrotlet" (Forpus xanthopterygius). Two heads of adult specimens, one male and one female, were donated by the Paraíba Wild Animals Triage Center (CETAS - PB). These were subjected to maceration and to the identification, characterization and measurement of structures and component bones of their respective skulls. Although the natural process of fusing the bones made it difficult to identify the bones, it was possible to identify the frontal, square, jugal, maxillary and mandible bones. These bones are characteristic and easily identified, serving as a basis for locating and identifying others. The maximum length of the skull was 29.0 mm and the width of 16.0 mm. The data obtained serve as a basis for the taxonomic characterization of the species, since no data are found in the literature.

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The increased demand for meat from wild animals for human consumption, as an alternative protein source, brings with it the need for research that demonstrates the quality of such product. The technical information about the meat from collared peccaries still needs studies and aiming to collaborate with the already existing knowledge, this research had as its objective to provide subsidies for evaluation of the sanitary quality of the meat from collared peccaries. Twelve animals were used, six males and six females, aged four to five months, from the breeding stock of the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid and, after euthanasia by a slaughter technique used in goats, the meat samples were collected through sterile swabs at the locations of the hind leg, loin, belly and axilla of each animal, totaling 48 samples. The maximum mesophilic count found was 1.9 x 103 CFU/ml, the total coliform and thermotolerant coliform counts were below the one determined in the legislation for meat from domestic animals, however, through biochemical tests, the presence of E. coli from the biotype 1 and biotype 2 was found, in seven and six samples, respectively. Search results for Salmonella spp. were negative in all samples and, as for Staphylococcus spp., only one sample had the count above the level allowed by law. The contamination load related to the bacteria E. coli proved to be high, making 13 samples unfit for consumption. Regarding the other data, the meat from young collared peccaries showed a low contamination load.

O gênero Amazona compreende os papagaios os quais estão entre as aves mais populares como animais de estimação, justamente por seu hábito dócil e capacidade de reproduzir sons. Possuem pés zigodáctilos, bico curvo e desenvolvido, que conferem a capacidade de escalar árvores e habilidade na manipulação dos alimentos. O presente projeto teve como objetivo descrever a anatomia do plexo lombossacral de 10 (dez) exemplares de papagaio-do-mangue (Amazona amazonica) doados ao Laboratório de Anatomia Veterinária da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande pelo CETAS/IBAMA-PB. Os animais foram fixados e conservados em solução de formaldeído a 10% e posteriormente dissecados os nervos do plexo lombossacral. O plexo lombar é formado pelas raízes dos nervos lombares 1, 2 e 3; o plexo sacral é formado pelas raízes dos nervos sacrais 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5, e o plexo pudendo possui 4 origens a partir dos segmentos sacrais da medula espinhal. O plexo lombar após a ramificação, forma dois nervos principais, o cutâneo femoral lateral e o cutâneo femoral cranial. Do plexo sacral surge o nervo isquiático, do qual se originam quatro ramos: nervo tibial, nervo fibular comum, nervo cutâneo femoral caudal e nervo caudal da coxa. O nervo isquiático inerva toda a musculatura que atua nas articulações do joelho e dos dedos. De uma forma geral a origem e os ramos do plexo lombossacral são semelhantes nas aves domésticas.