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Oiled WIldlife

10.30.2009
LOCAL, STATE AGENCIES RESPOND TO OIL SPILL IN BAY
CBS5.com (San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland)
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and its partner organizations in the Bay Area are at the scene of the spill to assess the situation and collect any oiled animals they may find.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29340

10.30.2009
UC DAVIS LEADS OILED-BIRD RESCUE
KCBS-AM 740 (SF Bay Area & N. Calif.)
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Michael Ziccardi is interviewed live on radio about plans to rescue and care for any oiled birds found at the site of an oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29338

10.30.2009
BAY OIL SPILL CLEANUP TO CONTINUE SATURDAY
KXTV Channel 10 (ABC)
by Jason Kobely
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center were at the scene of the oil spill in the San Francisco Bay to assess the situation and collect any oiled animals they found.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29344

Mountain Gorilla One Health Program

4.23.2009 WHC in the news
CALIF. PROGRAM TO PROTECT GORILLAS FROM DISEASE
The Associated Press
by Associated Press
UC Davis has received a $750,000 Packard Foundation grant to help care for the 740 gorillas remaining in the central African forests and protect them from diseases carried by livestock and people.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27387

4.24.2009 WHC in the news
BLOG: MOUNTAIN GORILLA PROJECT ANNOUNCED
Discovery (online)
by 'Born Animal' blog by Jennifer Viegas
Blog quotes UC Davis wildlife veterinarian and center assistant director Kirsten Gilardi, who will lead the Mountain Gorilla One Health Program, and veterinarian Michael Cranfield and Wildlife Health Center director Jonna Mazet.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27401

4.23.2009 WHC in the news
UC DAVIS JOINS FIGHT TO SAVE AFRICAN GORILLAS
ABC 7 San Francisco
by Wayne Freedman
5 p.m. news: Interviews Dr. Mike Cranfield, DVM, gorilla researcher, and Dr. Linda Lowenstine, DVM, UC Davis researcher.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27404

Avian Flu

Marine Life

2.16.2009 WHC in the news
SEA OTTERS' DIET CLUE TO THEIR SLOW RECOVERY SPEED
Daily Democrat
Christine Johnson, a veterinary epidemiologist at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, is the lead author of a new study which found that some sea otters in California feed almost exclusively on
abalone, which raises their risk of being infected with potentially deadly parasites.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=26696

8.31.2008 WHC in the news
BIOLOGISTS LAUNCH EFFORT TO CLEAN UP LOST FISHING GEAR OFF CALIFORNIA
COAST
San Jose Mercury News
By Paul Rogers
The California Wildlife Conservation Board has awarded $400,000 to
the UC Davis "California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Program," which
will spend the next two years cleaning lost fishing equipment from
public piers. Kristen Gilardi, a veterinarian with the UC Davis
Wildlife Health Center, is quoted.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=25067

8.31.2008 WHC in the news
BIOLOGISTS LAUNCH EFFORT TO CLEAN UP LOST FISHING GEAR OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
San Jose Mercury News
By Paul Rogers
The California Wildlife Conservation Board awarded a $400,000 grant to UC Davis to fVolunteer_Coordination_Tired_Levels_of_Oil_Spill_Responseund its "California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Program," which hopes to spend the next two years cleaning lost fishing line and hooks from dozens of public piers from Santa Cruz to Imperial Beach.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=25050

Mountain Lions

4.20.2009 WHC in the news
NEW STUDY TRACKS MOUNTAIN LION PATHS
KPCC-FM (NPR affiliate, Pasadena, Calif.)
by Molly Peterson
This radio program discusses the research work of Walter Boyce, of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, and Scott Morrison. The pair followed three mountain lions, whose movements and difficulties
highlight the need to protect the pathways animals need to move around.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27383

4.14.2009
SHOULD YOU RUN OR FREEZE WHEN YOU SEE A MOUNTAIN LION?
Scientific American
by Sushma Subramanian
Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator-prey relationships, is the author of a new study that found running away may be a safer strategy than confronting the animal.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27296

4.15.2009
IF YOU RUN ACROSS A MOUNTAIN LION, MAYBE IT'S BETTER TO RUN AWAY
The Sacramento Bee
by Matt Weiser
Richard Coss, a psychology professor, is the lead author of a new study that analyzed more than a century of cougar attacks. He found that in some cases it might be better to run away from an angry
mountain lion rather trying to fight back.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27294

4.10.2009
MOUNTAIN LION - STAND OR RUN?
Union, The
Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator-prey relationships, is the lead author of a new study of 110 years of mountain lion attacks. FIndings suggest that the conventional wisdom of standing your ground during an an attack may not always be the right course.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27298

4.8.2009
BLOG: COUGAR STUDY: FACING DOWN PREDATORS NOT THE SAFEST MEASURE,
AFTER ALL
The Los Angeles Times
by Pete Thomas
Richard Coss, a professor of psychology at UC Davis, is the lead author of a new study which suggests that running is the best survival strategy in an encounter with a mountain lion. "Even though we found evidence that pumas will indeed chase, and capture, people who run, we also found that people who stand still are possibly more endangered," Coss says.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27243

4.1.2009 WHC in the news
BLOG: LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOUNTAIN LIONS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times (Blog: Greenspace: Environmental News from California and Beyond)
by Louis Sahagun
Walter Boyce, co-director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center,
is the co-author with The Nature Conservancy's Scott Morrison of a new study which provides insight into what it will take to protect mountain lions in Southern California. "Mountain lions require very large areas, so the challenges of protecting these animals are great. But if we can protect a population of mountain
lions, we'll be protecting a lot of other species as well," Morrison says.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27166

Oiled WIldlife

10.30.2009
LOCAL, STATE AGENCIES RESPOND TO OIL SPILL IN BAY
CBS5.com (San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland)
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and its partner
organizations in the Bay Area are at the scene of the spill to assess
the situation and collect any oiled animals they may find.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29340

10.30.2009
UC DAVIS LEADS OILED-BIRD RESCUE
KCBS-AM 740 (SF Bay Area & N. Calif.)
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Michael Ziccardi is interviewed live
on radio about plans to rescue and care for any oiled birds found at
the site of an oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29338

10.30.2009
BAY OIL SPILL CLEANUP TO CONTINUE SATURDAY
KXTV Channel 10 (ABC)
by Jason Kobely
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center were at the scene
of the oil spill in the San Francisco Bay to assess the situation and
collect any oiled animals they found.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29344

10.30.2009
LOCAL, STATE AGENCIES RESPOND TO OIL SPILL IN BAY
CBS5.com (San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland)
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and its partner
organizations in the Bay Area are at the scene of the spill to assess
the situation and collect any oiled animals they may find.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29340

10.30.2009
UC DAVIS LEADS OILED-BIRD RESCUE
KCBS-AM 740 (SF Bay Area & N. Calif.)
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Michael Ziccardi is interviewed live
on radio about plans to rescue and care for any oiled birds found at
the site of an oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29338

10.30.2009
BAY OIL SPILL CLEANUP TO CONTINUE SATURDAY
KXTV Channel 10 (ABC)
by Jason Kobely
Staffers from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center were at the scene
of the oil spill in the San Francisco Bay to assess the situation and
collect any oiled animals they found.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=29344

11.7.2008
GREENSPACE; BIRD RESCUE
The Los Angeles Times
By Bettina Boxall
The state Oiled Wildlife Care Network, run by the UC Davis Wildlife
Health Center, announced a lower than expected survival rate for
birds rescued from last year's oil spill in the San Francisco Bay.
Michael Ziccardi, director of the network, says a variety of factors
explain the below-average survival rate, including the time of the
year and the sensitivity of the birds affected.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=25694

10.29.2008
LESS THAN HALF THE BIRDS RESCUED IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL
SURVIVED
Los Angeles Times (online)
By Bettina Boxall
During a news release on the eve of the first anniversary of the San Francisco Bay oil spill, the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, run by the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center,announced that efforts to rescue
birds involved in the spill were less successful than usual. Less than 40 percent of those taken from the muck made it back into the wild.
<http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=25619>

Other Wildlife

4.12.2009
JAGUAR'S CAPTURE FLAWED, SOME SAY
Arizona Daily Star
by Tony Davis and Tim Steller
Walter Boyce, a professor and wildlife veterinarian who heads the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, states that many of the same tools used for capturing mountain lions should have been used during a jaguar capture. "They should have been doing all those things for mountain lions, much less jaguars," Boyce says. "It boils down to doing the highest level of care and preparation for the animal, to minimize the chance of something going wrong, to be prepared as possible if something does."
<http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=27277>

1.22.2009
SCIENTISTS: DIET COULD BE CAUSE OF SEA OTTER DISEASE
San Jose Mercury News
This article describes a study from the U.S. Geological Survey and UC
Davis suggesting that sea otters regularly eating marine snails,
clams or fat innkeeper worms have a higher risk of exposure to
parasites that cause disease. No comments from anyone at UC Davis.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=26470

1.21.2009 WHC in the news
SEA OTTER DIETS AFFECT DISEASE EXPOSURE
U.P.I.
Researchers at UC Davis were part of a study that found that central California sea otters risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites due to the food they eat.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=26436

Yellowstone

10.31.2006 WHC in the news
YELLOWSTONE, UNIVERSITIES TO STUDY WILDLIFE DISEASES
The Associated Press
Article says that Montana State University and UC Davis will participate in a research program tracking and studying wildlife diseases in Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=17509

Feature Articles

3.18.2007 WHC in the news
Davis Enterprise
Working the Ecosystem
The work of the Wildlife Health Center is featured, in particular SeaDoc, HALI, Shannon Riggs.

3.29.2004
Sacramento Bee WHC in the news
Walk on the wild side: Vet students at UCD spend spring break with animals. OWCN Director Mike Ziccardi is featured.
SacBee-WHC_3-29-04.pdf

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