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Renal disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in managed black-footed ferrets (BFF; ). The objectives of this study were to establish reference intervals for blood analytes of clinically normal BFF (1-2 yr old), summarize the frequency of various renal histopathologic findings in a managed population of BFF, assess the diagnostic performance of blood analytes and urine specific gravity (USG) for the diagnosis of renal disease, and assess if comorbidities or age affects the performance of these analytes in diagnosing renal disease. Reference intervals were established using a cohort (n = 35) of clinically normal, young adult BFF.

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Comparison of Estimated Wild Giant Anteater ( Linnaeus, 1758) Diets with Commercial Diets for Insectivores: Implications for Anteater Health.

Animals (Basel)

November 2023

Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Rua Licuala 622, Campo Grande 79046-150, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Article Synopsis
  • Researchers analyzed the stomach contents of 24 wild road-killed giant anteaters to understand their natural diet and found it significantly lower in calcium and phosphorus compared to commercial feeds used in captivity.
  • The study revealed that anteaters consume a considerable amount of soil, affecting the composition of their diet, while protein and fat levels in their foods met carnivore dietary standards.
  • It highlighted the importance of maintaining appropriate levels of dietary calcium and vitamins D and K in captive anteaters to prevent nutritional diseases like hypercalcemia and vitamin K deficiency.
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A combination of tiletamine-zolazepam, medetomidine, and azaperone was used to immobilize captive Chacoan peccaries (Catagonus wagneri) for health assessments and biological sample collection at the Centro Chaqueño para la Conservación e Investigación (CCCI) in the Paraguayan Chaco during July in 2017 and 2018. In total, 83 peccaries kept in 0.25-1.

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Zoo-based (ex situ) conservation breeding programs provide invaluable opportunities to uncover enigmatic behaviors and traits of focal species under managed care, which can support research and conservation management efforts. A suite of factors and a limited range have yielded population declines in the threatened narrow-headed gartersnake (Thamnophis rufipunctatus). Better understanding its cryptic ecology and life history (e.

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Leopardus tigrinus is among the least known carnivore species in the Neotropics, including considerable taxonomic uncertainty. Here we model the distribution, connectivity and overlap with existing conservation areas for the species in Colombia. Using a Species Distribution Modeling approach, we estimated current potential range of the species in Colombia and identified potential habitat blocks remaining in the country.

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Kirk's dik-diks () are the most common dik-dik species managed in North American zoological institutions, but their numbers are declining at a concerning rate, with less than 40 individuals currently housed in accredited institutions. This retrospective study reports the causes of mortality in Kirk's dik-diks in North American zoological institutions from 1988 to 2019. Out of 15 institutions accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) currently housing Kirk's dik-diks, nine contributed to this study (60% participation).

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Managing wildlife populations in the face of global change requires regular data on the abundance and distribution of wild animals, but acquiring these over appropriate spatial scales in a sustainable way has proven challenging. Here we present the data from Snapshot USA 2020, a second annual national mammal survey of the USA. This project involved 152 scientists setting camera traps in a standardized protocol at 1485 locations across 103 arrays in 43 states for a total of 52,710 trap-nights of survey effort.

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Mimicking natural parameters and complexities in zoo conservation breeding programs can facilitate natural physiological and behavioral traits, which in turn can inform more effective species reintroduction efforts. To curtail population declines of threatened narrow-headed gartersnakes (Thamnophis rufipunctatus), the Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo partnered with a multiagency conservation working group to develop an ex situ propagation-for-release program. Initially, Zoo staff followed common snake husbandry protocols of manually inducing brumation (i.

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A 1-y-old female southern tamandua () presented with vomiting, hyporexia, and neurologic signs. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed contrast-enhancing material within the lateral and fourth ventricles and a T2 hyperintense cerebellar lesion, consistent with meningoencephalitis. The tamandua rapidly declined and was euthanatized.

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Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis caused by the free-living amoeba is a highly fatal disease that was first isolated from a mandrill (), and has since been diagnosed in several nonhuman primates including orangutans. Indirect immunofluorescence antibody (IFA) techniques for have been used in the fields of human medicine and epidemiology both for exposure assessment and screening of clinical patients for antemortem diagnosis. Stored serum samples from five captive Northwest Bornean orangutans (), including one who had died from infection, housed at a single facility were screened with a human IFA assay for .

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With the accelerating pace of global change, it is imperative that we obtain rapid inventories of the status and distribution of wildlife for ecological inferences and conservation planning. To address this challenge, we launched the SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey of terrestrial wildlife populations using camera traps across the United States. For our first annual survey, we compiled data across all 50 states during a 14-week period (17 August-24 November of 2019).

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COMPARISON OF FECAL CYTOLOGY AND PRESENCE OF ENTEROTOXIN IN CAPTIVE BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS () BASED ON DIET AND FECAL QUALITY.

J Zoo Wildl Med

January 2021

Department of Pathology and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ 85308, USA.

The black-footed ferret () is an endangered mustelid native to North America. Gastroenteritis is a documented cause of morbidity and mortality in managed individuals, particularly by infectious agents. Fecal cytology is an inexpensive and rapid test that can help guide clinical management strategies for animals with enteritis; however, normal parameters have not been established in black-footed ferrets.

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A female Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) aged 11 years and 6 months was examined by veterinarians after caretakers observed lethargy and facial grimacing. Within 72 h the primate had left-sided hemiparesis that worsened over the next week. An MRI revealed a focal right-sided cerebral mass suspected to be a neoplasm.

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We used data from eight years of camera trapping at Rancho El Aribabi, a cattle ranch and conservation property in northern Sonora, Mexico, to examine the ecology of the northern-most known breeding population of ocelots (). Ocelots were found mostly in two discrete and disjunct areas: a riverine riparian canyon at just less than 1,000 masl elevation and along arroyos in an oak-mesquite savanna in the Sierra Azul at 1,266-1,406 masl. An ocelot was also detected at a site between those two areas, in an area of a Sonoran desertscrub-foothills thornscrub ecotone at 1,300 masl.

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Sexually dimorphic weaponry often results from intrasexual selection, and weapon size can vary seasonally when costs of bearing the weapon exceed the benefits outside of the reproductive season. Weapons can also be favored in competition over nonreproductive resources such as food or shelter, and if such nonreproductive competition occurs year-round, weapons may be less likely to vary seasonally. In snapping shrimp (), both sexes have an enlarged snapping claw (a potentially deadly weapon), and males of many species have larger claws than females, although females are more aggressive.

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Semen analysis parameters from a captive population of the endangered Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) in Paraguay.

Anim Reprod Sci

August 2018

Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, 4466 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77845, USA. Electronic address:

Baseline information about the reproductive physiology of an endangered species is vital to captive breeding programs. This study analyzed reproductive parameters from eleven captive Chacoan peccaries (Catagonus wagneri) (mean age: 10.5 ± 1.

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