Biologists often use camera traps to monitor wildlife populations. But can they also be used to detect disease? Researchers in Chicago turned their cameras on urban coyotes to see if they could detect sarcoptic mange. …
TWS’ San Joaquin Valley Chapter is raising money to help treat endangered kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis), whose urban population has been struck by a sarcoptic mange epidemic. “It’s the Chapter taking a grassroots local conservation …
Endangered by habitat loss across its range, the San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) now faces another deadly threat. Sarcoptic mange has been spreading swiftly through its urban population in Bakersfield, Calif., and researchers …
Mangy wolves struggle more to cope with the cold and wind than healthy animals. “They could either consume more to replace those lost calories through heat or they could move less,” said Paul Cross, a …
Coyotes living with mange, a contagious skin disease that’s identified by thinned out hair especially on their tails, are more likely to be drawn to human food and other anthropogenic resources, according to a new …
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