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Major Anthropogenic Causes For And Outcomes Of Wild Animal Presentation To A Wildlife Clinic In East Tennessee, Usa, 2000–2011, Ashley N. Schenk, Marcy J. Souza
Major Anthropogenic Causes For And Outcomes Of Wild Animal Presentation To A Wildlife Clinic In East Tennessee, Usa, 2000–2011, Ashley N. Schenk, Marcy J. Souza
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences
To determine the reasons for presentation and outcome of wildlife cases in East Tennessee, a retrospective analysis was performed using 14,303 records from cases presented to the wildlife clinic of the University of Tennessee Veterinary Teaching Hospital between 2000 and 2011. The cases were first categorized into amphibian/non-avian reptile, mammal, or avian and then classified into groups based on the primary admitting/presenting sign. There are a variety of reasons animals were presented to the clinic, and some were directly or indirectly anthropogenic in origin, including cat related, dog related, hit by automobile, and other human encounters leading to trauma; of …