ABSTRACT: Free-living wild animals can host a wide variety of endoparasites. When subjected to conditions of captivity, these animals can go through stressful situations and develop parasites.

To piciformes, psittaciformes and strigiformes, gastrointestinal intestinal parasites are a major cause of mortality (Valadão et al. 2006, Wobeser 2007). Anorexia, listlessness, mainly light-green ...