Image of the Day: Ailing Lions
Lions in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park may be contracting canine distemper from wild hyenas and jackals as well as domesticated dogs.
Jan 28, 2015
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, SIAN BROWN(See “Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic–wildlife interface: canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions,” PNAS, 2015.)
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