18 Jan Becoming a Wildlife Doctor
For her persistent innovative leadership in developing new approaches to human-wildlife interaction at a time when the danger of zoo-tonic diseases is ring worldwide....
For her persistent innovative leadership in developing new approaches to human-wildlife interaction at a time when the danger of zoo-tonic diseases is ring worldwide....
Respiratory infections recorded among mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park dropped from a pre-pandemic average of 5.4 outbreaks among family groups to just 1.6 per year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020....
In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a national park in southwest Uganda that is home to nearly half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. ...
Years before the obsession with wild-borne pathogens latching onto humans gripped the world, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was already dealing with disease spillovers. Except, she worried about humans infecting gorillas in her native Uganda....
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From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, primatologists assumed great apes would be susceptible to the virus and took measures to avoid transmission to captive and wild populations....