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A new study led by a San Diego Zoo Global scientist offers rare insights into the unique social character of forest elephants, the least understood of the world s three currently existing elephant species.
Limited access to food in the central African forest probably affects why females of this species form smaller family units than other elephants, according to the study, published in the journal
Animal Behaviour in December 2020. The research was based on intensive long-term monitoring of the population by Andrea Turkalo, as a scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. The analysis was done in tandem with Colorado State University, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Cornell University.
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National Zoo to split with longtime partner FONZ Michael Ruane The National Zoo said Thursday that after 63 years it is severing its relationship with its longtime nonprofit partner, Friends of the National Zoo. The action is being taken as the zoo faces an estimated $15 million budget shortfall due to the coronavirus, which has kept the Smithsonian landmark in Washington closed for much of the past year. FONZ, which has also been financially slammed by the virus, will have to vacate its offices at the zoo, on Connecticut Avenue, and its members will be offered memberships in a similar program run by the zoo.
Mange in Yellowstone wolves reveals insights into human scabies and conservation biology
Liana Wait, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jan. 25, 2021 9:30 a.m.
Before wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, they were vaccinated for common diseases and treated for any parasite infections they already carried. As a result, the first few generations of wolves were relatively disease-free, but over the years, various diseases have found their way into the population.
Both of these Yellowstone wolves display the hair loss and skin lesions associated with mange. By analyzing 25 years of wolf observations and genetic samples from 408 Yellowstone wolves, a Princeton-led research team found that genetics play a role in the severity of the mite-borne disease. They found support for the monoculture theory : wolves with severe mange, like the one on the left, tend to have less genetic variation than wolves with mild symptoms, as
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