Un brote de sarna ha diezmado la población de vicuñas y guanacos en un parque nacional argentino creado para su conservación, según un estudio de la Administración de Parques Nacionales de Argentina y la Universidad de California en Davis. Los resultados, publicados en la revista PLOS ONE, sugieren que un grupo de llamas introducidas en cercanías del parque podrían haber sido el origen del brote. Se esperan consecuencias para las especies depredadoras y carroñeras locales.
The three resident turkey vultures at the California Raptor Center (CRC) got new digs this summer! Thanks to a generous grant from the McBeth Foundation, the center staff worked with the cage design company Corners Limited, Inc. to design an exhibit to house Juliet (28+ years old, wing injury) and Merry and Pippin (3-year-old siblings, human imprinted). The cage was installed in July 2021.
As colder weather arrives in California, UC Davis researchers urge wildlife rehabilitators and veterinary professionals working with raptors to take extra health precautions against a Chlamydia strain found in several species that might potentially cause serious disease in humans as well.
Western snowy plovers, listed as federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act and considered a “species of special concern” in California, were some of the animals rescued by OWCN wildlife responders during the Orange County oil spill.
In the early 2000s, a fungus infected hundreds of animals and people in British Columbia and Washington State. Scientists found that the disease also killed porpoises and dolphins in the Salish Sea – perhaps affecting cetaceans even earlier than people.
Responders with the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network, a program managed by UC Davis, continue to provide veterinary care for animals impacted by the Orange County oil spill.
Californians who raise chickens and game fowl are invited to participate in a study to help the University of California more effectively deliver poultry health information and prevent the spread of diseases such as avian influenza.
The Indian wolf could be far more endangered than previously recognized, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and the scientists who sequenced the Indian wolf’s genome for the first time.
Rhesus macaques naturally exposed to wildfire smoke early in pregnancy had an increased rate of miscarriage, according to new research from the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis.
