This study investigates whether obesity is a problem for African elephants in zoos, and if the condition is related to the high prevalence of ovarian acyclicity, which causes infertility, observed in this species.
The aim of this research is to use stem-cell therapy to eradicate tumor cells from Tasmanian devils suffering from devil facial tumor disease.
Researchers will investigate the epidemiology and control of a newly emerging strain of tuberculosis that is infecting and killing banded mongoose living in community and wildlife areas in Northern Botswana.
Researchers will validate molecular techniques for quicker, more practical and more sensitive diagnosis of tuberculosis in elephants.
The aim of this study is to determine whether distributing the oral sylvatic plague vaccine to prairie dogs has protective and other effects on small rodents that live in and around prairie dog colonies.
Researchers will use genetic analyses to examine the relationships among rodents, fleas and plague bacteria as a way to further characterize how plague is perpetuated in wild animal reservoirs in the United States. Data generated by this study will be used to direct targeted management strategies of affected wild animal populations.
Researchers will test the susceptibility of the most endangered frog in North America to the emerging pathogen ranavirus.
