A graduate student at the University of Georgia is trying to understand how a fungal disease is affecting the health of snakes across the southeastern United States.
Corinna Hazelrig, a recent graduate of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources who is now a DVM-PhD student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is monitoring snakes at three locations in the Southeast to gain a better understanding of how pathogens are affecting…
Tue, 06/14/2022 - 9:50pm
A new study by the University of Georgia found Florida panthers are the No. 1 cause of mortality for white-tailed deer in southwest Florida.
The researchers set out to get a better picture of what factors most affect the survival of Florida’s white-tailed deer, the most popular game species in the state and a key prey species for the Florida panther.
Published this month in the Journal of Applied Ecology, the publication is part of the South…