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Sea Lion Brain Mapped to Study Toxins' Effects
Discovery News - dsc.discovery.com
04 Nov 2009
Photo courtesy of Discover News
The first detailed anatomical atlas of a living wildlife species has been constructed by researchers.
Mapping the California sea lion's (Zalophus californianus) brain with a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and volumetric measuring, scientists want to better understand how toxins in the water are causing neurological damage among marine mammal populations.
Disease turns up in new hunt area near 10 Sleep
Trib.com - www.trib.com
04 Nov 2009
Location: Wyoming, USA - Map It
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says chronic wasting disease has been found in another deer hunt area in the Big Horn Basin.
. . . Game and Fish has been asking hunters to submit samples from their animals to find out whether those animals have the disease.
Chronic wasting disease turned up in a mule deer buck killed Oct. 15 in the Spring Creek drainage southeast of Ten Sleep. Previous cases of chronic wasting were confirmed just to the east and west.
Science PicksUSGS Newsroom - www.usgs.gov/newsroom
04 Nov 2009
- Wind Energy: A Scare for Bats and Birds
- Whooping Cranes are Flying High!
- Giant Snakes Threaten Ecosystems
Science Daily - www.sciencedaily.com
04 Nov 2009
What's the point of setting up marine reserves to protect coral reefs from pollution, ship groundings and overfishing if climate change could cause far more damage? A study published this week in London in Proceedings of the Royal Society B provides the answer.
For decades researchers have known that corals synchronize their release of eggs and sperm into the water but were unsure of how and why. Robert van Woesik, a biologist at the Florida Institute of Technology, explains why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months.
Other Marine Environment News
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWSPhoto courtesy of Science Daily
- Timber Harvest Impacts Amphibians Differently During Life Stages
- Bid to stop badger cull fails
- Sage-Grouse Conservation: A Major Challenge in the West
- Raymondville man fined for poisoning wildlife in effort to kill coyotes [Montana, USA - Map It ]
- Bacteria Expect The Unexpected
- Species' extinction threat grows
- Another species of python is raising concern
- Inquiry into jaguar death focusing on anesthetic
- Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates
- Tags Reveal White Sharks Have Neighborhoods In The North Pacific
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host
Annu Rev Microbiol. 2009;63:291-310.
MC Fisher et al.
Effects of environmental change on wildlife health
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Nov 27;364(1534):3429-38.
K Acevedo-Whitehouse and AL Duffus
Veterinary Pathology - November 2009
Vol. 46, No. 6
Journal of Wildlife Management - November 2009
Volume 73, Issue 8
Blood Sampling Reduces Annual Survival in Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
The Auk. 2009 Oct; 126 (4): 853–861
MB Brown and CR Brown
