Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
July 14, 2014

Pet desert tortoises need homes

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There's no place to take unwanted desert tortoises, a reptile that is endangered in the wild. Yet desert tortoises can’t simply be put...
February 19, 2014

Pneumonia outbreak now called ‘worst case scenario’ for bighorn sheep

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Bighorn Sheep are shown on the trail to Icebox Canyon in Red Rock Conservation Area. In what wildlife biologists are calling “a worst-case...
November 12, 2013

Bighorn sheep numbers way down

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These bighorn sheep were photographed in 2009 on Old Dad Mountain, the same area of the eastern Mojave Desert where a deadly disease has s...
September 4, 2013

Trucked sheep may have caused bighorn deaths

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Domestic sheep trucked through the Mojave may have caused a devastating bighorn pneumonia wave More than 100 bighorn sheep in and around ...
July 26, 2013

Bighorn sheep testing shows sick animals without disease

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Two bighorn sheep ewes and their lambs are photographed during a survey conducted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Both ...
June 19, 2013

Diseased bighorn sheep might have to be killed in Mojave National Preserve

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Desert bighorn sheep gather at night on June 6 at a guzzler set up to provide water for the herd. A virus that is killing sheep in the lar...
June 6, 2013

Wildlife biologists investigate bighorn sheep deaths

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Bighorn sheep near a wildlife guzzler in the Old Dad Mountain range in the Mojave National Preserve. (FILE PHOTO) by Janet Zimmerman Pr...