| shortfalls using second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides. | second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides can give rise to unexpected casualties in nontarget species in zoos. the first two offspring of a pair of turkey vultures (cathartes aura) died of brodifacoum toxicosis. the adult birds fed rodenticide-killed mice to their offspring. there are previous case reports of small carnivorous birds (dacelo novae-guinae and tockus deckeni) killed eating poisoned (difenacoum and brodifacoum) mice. even a granivorous species (rollulus roulroul) died, probably b ... | 2002 | 12216801 |
| severe outbreak of marek's disease in crested partridges (rollulus rouloul). | | 2016 | 27789865 |
| a new genus and four new species of quill mites (acari: prostigmata: syringophiudae) from phasianid birds (galuformes: phasianidae). | a new genus and four new species of the quill mites are described. galliphilopsis gen. n. (g. francolinus sp. n., type species) differs from the closely related dissonus skoracki, 1999 by loss of leg setae dgii, the slightly divergent tips of epimeres i and the stylophore constricted posteriorly. three new species of the genus galliphilopsis gen. n. and one new species of the genus mironovia chirov and kravtsova, 1995 are described from galliform birds (phasianidae) collected at the museum of na ... | 2004 | 15638139 |
| marek's disease virus associated ocular lymphoma in roulroul partridges (rollulus rouloul). | two 1-year old roulroul partridges (rollulus rouloul), one male and one female, were presented because of eye problems and anorexia. twenty of the 30 roulroul partridges in the owner's collection had already died. the affected birds stopped eating, became thinner, and eventually died. antibiotic treatment, which started because of the suspicion of a septicaemic process, was unsuccessful. at clinical examination of the two partridges it was found that in both birds, one eye ball was filled with a ... | 2015 | 26021782 |