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TWS2021: Disease, predation causing Appalachian spotted skunk decline

November 18, 2021

The Appalachian subspecies of the eastern spotted skunk is facing large declines, likely due to a combination of predation and canine distemper, a disease fatal to the carnivores. Concerns about the eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale …

Joshua Rapp Learn

Wild Cam: Asian wild dogs’ diet may aid their conservation

September 10, 2020

TWS member Jan Kamler has been hot on the trail of the packs of dholes he’s been studying for years in Southeast Asia. Sometimes trekking for months through the rainforests and mountains of Laos and …

Dana Kobilinsky

New canine distemper virus strain found in New England

May 24, 2019

In December 2016, Patrick Tate, a wildlife biologist with the state of New Hampshire Fish and Game, noticed a fisher (Martes pennanti) breathing heavily under a tree. When he approached it, it didn’t try to …

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