Wildlife Science News

A doe stands in a clearing

Deer dynamics: Student helps unlock mysteries of chronic wasting disease

Hundreds of GPS collars. Thousands of movements tracked across the mountains. Millions of photographs. These are the elements now being assembled to give researchers a clearer picture of chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious, deadly disease affecting a large number of deer and elk in…
Musk turtle

A fresh start for turtles: Warnell’s pond gets fall cleaning

The small, square pond in the Mary Kahrs Warnell garden is known as a spot for lunch, meetings or quiet reflection. But regular visitors to the garden will notice a change this fall.   Facing extreme temperatures and an overgrowth of vegetation, maintenance crews at the University of Georgia…
Jorge Rojas tracks a tapir

Jorge Rojas: Guardian the gardeners of the forest

Jorge Rojas is protecting living fossils. Those “fossils” are Baird’s tapir, an endangered herbivore that looks like a small rhino, with a nose that resembles a short trunk and lives in Central and South America. As a remnant of the megafauna, they roamed the earth alongside mastodons and…

Disease conference examines intersection of human, animal illness

The COVID-19 pandemic threw the intersection of animal and human diseases into the spotlight. Now, a specialized conference this week sharpens the focus on that topic.   The annual Wildlife Disease Conference takes place July 29-Aug. 4 at The Classic Center in Athens. It will bring more than…
A researcher holds a gopher frog with a gloved hand

Developing agency among agent-based models 

A recent journal edition sparks conversation on the role of women in science   Working toward her doctorate at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Angela Burrow (Ph.D. ’21) spent a lot of time with gopher frogs. It meant hours in Georgia’s southeastern…

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