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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
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
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
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>
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."
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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
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
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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