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Open season on escaped exotic deer near Delhi
Daily Comet - www.dailycomet.com
13 Nov 2009
Location: Delhi, Richland Parish, Louisiana - Map It 
. . . Up to 14 fallow deer and an unknown number of sika deer escaped through a broken fence at High Delta Exotics, a wildlife park and hunting ranch, John Hanks, a biologist with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said Thursday.
He said the deer might have diseases they could spread to native whitetails. "The biggest we're worried about is chronic wasting disease," he said. The disease has not been found in Louisiana deer.
Dolphin washed ashore by Tropical Storm Ida rescued by scientistsAlabama Live - www.al.com
13 Nov 2009
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Photo courtesy of The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies
Location: Gulf Shores, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA - Map It
. . . A jogger spotted a stranded Atlantic bottlenose dolphin at the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Gulf Shores shortly after the weather cleared Tuesday morning, said Refuge Manager Jereme Phillips.
The dolphin was being treated Thursday at The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, a Gulfport research facility that responds to dolphins stranded in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Moby Solangi, the institute's executive director, said this dolphin is suffering from pneumonia, dehydration and parasites.
SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the
North Atlantic OceanEurekalert - www.eurekalert.org
12 Nov 2009
Sea Education Association (SEA) is preparing to conduct the first-ever research expedition dedicated solely to examining the accumulation of plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean.
. . . This trip will explore an area southeast of Bermuda that, it is hypothesized, is an extension of the high plastic pollution region defined by more than 200 previous SEA voyages in the Western North Atlantic.
Observations from those trips indicate the area has large concentrations of plastic debris comparable to the region of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
TOP READ LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
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- South African disease outbreak affects its mammal population
- Scientists seek help studying bird virus
- Foxes, skunks spreading bat rabies variant in Arizona
- Phylogenetic analysis of Newcastle disease viruses isolated from waterfowl in the Upper Midwest Region of the United States
- Nation prepares for deadly bat virus
- Experts Discuss Complex Nature Of Animal Welfare At Symposium
- Video shows dolphins attacking porpoise in Monterey Bay
- Expert: bats not the bad guys
- Koala numbers in free fall
- Sage-Grouse Conservation: A Major Challenge in the West
- Risk of Importing Zoonotic Diseases through Wildlife Trade, United States
- Journal of Wildlife Management [Journal Table of Contents]
- Effects of environmental change on wildlife health
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
- Week in Wildlife [image gallery]
- Fowl Line [U.S.-Mexico fence and animal migration, habitat fragmentation]
- Sponges Recycle Carbon To Give Life To Coral Reefs [cited journal article]
- DNR Continues Monitoring CWD Zone [West Virginia, USA]
- India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks
- 6 black bucks die in 5 days in Zoo [Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Map It ]
- Wild pig put down in Lake County [Lake County, South Dakota, USA - Map It ]
- Monkey eludes capture in Florida
- 26 whoopers reach area [Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA]
- DNA Barcodes: Creative New Uses Span Health, Fraud, Smuggling, History, More [includes "Barcoding projects designed to help contain diseases"]
Photo credit: O Bronstein
- Predatory coral eats jellyfish
- Deep-sea fish captured on camera [includes video]
- Bees fight to death over females [includes video]
