Baiting Project for Australia’s Fox Problem
Australia is trying to trick its biggest cunning invasive species by filling fake turtle nest with quail eggs and turtle excrement to showing itself on camera. The project is to find how big the fox predation problem is. They want to use 1080 poison bait against foxes and they therefore need to know where to use it.
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Blog
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Crime & Punishment
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Ecology
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Health & Medical
Houston Zoo Vet Clinic receives another sea turtle
Miscellany
Enjoy that short video about a RES sneezing
Did You Know…
Skeletal fact: Septicemic cutaneous ulcerative disease, SCUD. The disease is caused by bacteria entering through some sort of abrasion, combined with poor animal husbandry. It starts with ulcerative lesions of the plastron which leads to a septacemic infection causing the degradation of the liver and other organs. Without treatment, this will lead to death.
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Photo from Jodie Dunn.
