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COVID-19 lockdown changes urban wildlife behavior in Berlin

February 4, 2022

Trail cameras set up around Germany’s capital have revealed that changing human activity patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced wildlife behavior. As a result of the lockdown, some species in Berlin, like red foxes …

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Rabies vaccination targets raccoons in Maine

August 6, 2019

USDA Wildlife Services is spreading more than 300,000 rabies vaccine baits in Maine in an effort to address the spread of rabies in raccoons (Procyon lotor). The bait will be spread over a 2,405-square-mile area …

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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 …

TWS Wildlife News

Plan Guides Management of Raccoon Rabies Outbreak

January 6, 2016

On December 4, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed a case of raccoon rabies in Hamilton, Ontario about 80 kilometers from the Buffalo, New York Airport and west of the oral rabies vaccination zone …

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