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Scientists worry for sick California sea lions
A rescue group says an alarming number of California sea lions are being found dead or ailing along the central coast near Monterey.
Marine Mammal Center field manager Sue Andrews says the carcasses of dozens of young sea lions have washed up on area beaches recently.
San Jose Mercury News - www.mercurynews.com [Source: Associated Press]
05 June 2010
Location: Monterey, California, USA - Map It
05 June 2010
Location: Monterey, California, USA - Map It
Gulf oil leak causing upheaval in marine ecologyAs oil continues to leak out of the collapsed Deepwater Horizon well head, researchers are beginning to collect data on how it is changing life in the Gulf of Mexico.
Earlier today, Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia in Athens spoke of what they are finding. She said that methane concentrations in a giant underwater plume emanating from the well head are as much as 10,000 times higher than background levels.
The consequences of this for life in the gulf are unknown.
New Scientist - www.newscientist.com
08 June 2010
P McKenna
Photo credit: S Joye
08 June 2010
P McKenna
Photo credit: S Joye
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OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo courtesy of Rice University
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- Government recognizes risk of West Nile low, halts testing of dead birds for virus [Nova Scotia, Canada]
- Even Small Patches of Urban Woods Are Valuable for Migrating Birds
- Alaska wildlife managers armed with Tasers
- Crowd Science Reaches New Heights
Invasive Species
- Follow the Money: Wealth, Population Are Key Drivers of Invasive Species
- Australia Recruiting Tourists as Toad Killers
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WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Evaluating the Use of House Sparrow Nestlings as Sentinels for West Nile Virus in SaskatchewanVector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2010 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]
C Millins et al.
Evaluation of Selective Culling of Infected Individuals to Control Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease
Conserv Biol. 2010 Jun; 24(3): 841 - 851
S Lachish et al.
Social behavior drives the dynamics of respiratory disease in threatened tortoises
Ecology. 2010 May;91(5):1257-62.
LD Wendland et al.
Non-archetypal Type II-like and atypical strains of Toxoplasma gondii infecting marsupials of Australia
Int J Parasitol. 2010 May;40(6):635-40. Epub 2010 Mar 25.
N Parameswaran et al.
Piloting a Non-Invasive Genetic Sampling Method for Evaluating Population-Level Benefits of Wildlife Crossing Structures
Ecology and Society. 2010; 15(1): art 7 [online publication][pdf][free full-text available]
AP Clevenger and MA Sawaya
Cell-Based Quantification of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
J Virol. 2010 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]
J Bian et al.
