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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Tags: Frontmatter Source Type: research

How to Get Involved (What Veterinarians Can Do to Make a Difference)
We did not inherit this world from our parents, we borrowed it from our children. Core environmental proverb (Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine)
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Additional Observations and Notes on the Natural History of the Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) in Colorado
This study shows the incidence of Salmonella in a wild, free-ranging population of rattlesnakes. In addition, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia was isolated. This bacterium is associated with wound and soft tissue infections that can lead to sepsis, endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis. In addition, this bacterium has been increasingly implicated as an opportunistic pathogen to humans during pregnancies, hospitalizations, malignancies and chemotherapy, chronic respiratory diseases, and presurgical endotracheal intubation. Furthermore, S. maltophilia has an intense resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics, the results of ou...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald, Bryon K. Shipley, Kristin L. Newquist, Rebecca Vera, Aryn A. Flood Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

A Review of the Proposed Reintroduction Program for the Far Eastern Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) and the Role of Conservation Organizations, Veterinarians, and Zoos
The Amur leopard is at the point of extinction. At present there are fewer than 35 in the wild. Their natural habitat ranges from China to the North Korean peninsula to Primorsky Krai in Russia. A reintroduction plan has been proposed to increase the population in the wild; however, this proposed plan still has many questions to be answered as to how effective it will be. The main objective is to reintroduce animals from a select group within the Far Eastern leopard programme or the Species Survival programme, which consist of leopards from select populations in the Northern Hemisphere.Zoos are central to the success of th...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Paul Kelly, David Stack, Jessica Harley Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Longline Fishing (How What You Don't Know Can Hurt You)
Longline fishing utilizes monofilament lines that can be as much as 62 miles long. The line itself is buoyed by Styrofoam or plastic floats. Usually, at about every 100ft, a secondary line is attached and hangs down from the mainline. The lines are baited with mackerel, squid, or shark meat and have as many as 10,000 hooks. Every 12-24 hours, the line is hauled in, mechanically rebaited, and set back into the water behind the vessel. The baited hooks can be seen by albatross and other seabirds as they are placed in the water or being hauled out. When the birds dive for the bait, they are hooked, dragged behind the fishing ...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Veterinary Assessment for Free-Ranging Eurasian Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) Chicks in Southeastern Mongolia
This article will describe a collaboration in southeastern Mongolia collecting blood for sera analytes and physiologic data from Eurasian Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) chicks during a tagging operation. (Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine)
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: David E. Kenny, Cynthia L. Bickel, Richard P. Reading Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Polar Bears: The Fate of an Icon
Polar bears are one of the most iconic animals on our planet. Worldwide, even people who would never see one are drawn to these charismatic arctic ice hunters. They are the world's largest terrestrial carnivore, and despite being born on land, they spend most of their lives out on the sea ice and are considered a marine mammal. Current global studies estimate there are around 20,000 animals in some 19 discrete circumpolar populations. Aside from pregnant females denning in the winter months to give birth, the white bears do not hibernate. They spend their winters on the sea ice hunting seals, an activity they are spectacul...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

The Crucial Contribution of Veterinarians to Conservation Biology
Conservation biology is a relatively new (began in the 1980s), value-based discipline predicated on the belief that biological diversity—from genes to populations to species to communities to ecosystems—is good and extinction is bad. Conservation biology grew from the recognition that the Earth has entered its sixth great extinction event, one that differs from previous great extinctions in that a single species—Homo sapiens—has caused this biodiversity crisis. A diverse, interacting set of variables drive current extinctions. As such, to succeed, conservation efforts usually require broad-based, interdisciplinary ...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Richard P. Reading, David E. Kenny, Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Foreword
Thirty years ago this month, I graduated from veterinary school. My graduation admitted me into a profession that, while a stern mistress, has provided me with wondrous journeys and took my life in directions that I could have never anticipated. How veterinary medicine has changed in these last 3 decades! The advent of the age of specialists, the development of fantastic new equipment and technologies, the emergence and threat of new diseases—both strictly veterinary and zoonotic, heightened expectations placed upon us by the public, and the tremendous explosion in new information and knowledge that clinicians constantly...
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Foreword
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Veterinary Assessment for Free-Ranging Eurasian Black Vulture () Chicks in Southeastern Mongolia
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: David E. Kenny, Cynthia L. Bickel, Richard P. Reading Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

The Crucial Contribution of Veterinarians to Conservation Biology
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Richard P. Reading, David E. Kenny, Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

A Review of the Proposed Reintroduction Program for the Far Eastern Leopard () and the Role of Conservation Organizations, Veterinarians, and Zoos
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Paul Kelly, David Stack, Jessica Harley Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

How to Get Involved (What Veterinarians Can Do to Make a Difference)
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research

Longline Fishing (How What You Don't Know Can Hurt You)
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Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - November 1, 2013 Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Kevin T. Fitzgerald Tags: Topical Reviews Source Type: research