Tag: Key deer

When researchers set up camera traps in the lower Florida Keys, they were focused on the effects of feral cats on endangered marsh rabbits. But when key deer wandered in...

Cooperation to conquer screwworm and protect Key deer Imagine happening upon an animal through a cloud of flies and the smell of decay, its body full of wriggling maggots as...

The latest issue of The Wildlife Professional salutes conservation successes, starting with our cover feature, Ready for Release — Rebound of the Kirtland’s Warbler. The population of the tiny bird...

Efforts to conserve the federally endangered Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) are proving largely successful, thanks to the release of sterile screwworm flies and medication. In October, the U.S. Department...

Endangered deer in the Florida Keys are suffering grizzly deaths from an infestation of flesh-eating maggots. The parasites, known as New World screwworms (Cochliomyia hominivorax), are the larvae of flies...