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A year-old whitetail buck was recently found circling a Tennessee suburb with hair covering both of its eyeballs, according to the National Deer Association. The bizarre condition is a rare example of corneal dermoids, which occur when tissue of a particular type grows in the wrong place on the body.
Residents first noticed the deer circling in Farragut, a suburb of Knoxville, in August 2020, and immediately notified the local wildlife authorities. Because the buck was bleeding, disoriented, and apparently lacked fear of humans, animal control officers suspected that it may have been infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD), and therefore decided to kill the deer in order to prevent the spread of this fatal prion disease.
Red tide linked to royal tern deaths on causeway
By SCCF - | Feb 17, 2021
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A royal tern sits on the Sanibel Causeway bridge railing.
On Feb. 16, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported that many residents and visitors have called SCCF, the city of Sanibel and Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife with concerns about royal terns over the past few weeks and the sight of their carcasses on the Sanibel Causeway bridges.
Although SCCF Marine Lab scientists have detected decreasing levels of Karenia brevis the dinoflagellate that blooms into red tide at island beaches over the last two weeks, the number of wildlife impacts has increased.