Wildlife Health Talks
Wildlife Health Talks
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#87 Arman and the wild birds of Iran
In Iran, there is no established path for a veterinary student who wants to work with wildlife. So Arman Nourishirazi and his teammates built one.Based in Ahvaz, in the province of Khuzestan, Arman is a final year vet student in one of ...
#86 Cody and Trichinella in Canada's Arctic North
What happens when a parasite learns to survive the deep freeze? In this episode, host Cat Vendl talks with parasitologist Cody Malone about Trichinella, the tiny worm behind your grandmother's warnings to cook pork through, and a real hazard fo...
#85 Elizabeth and the Blood Feeding Network (Mexico)
How do you find out which animals a mosquito has been biting? You start by thinking like one. In this episode, biologist Elizabeth Linares Alcántara takes us to a public park in Mérida, Mexico, where she hunts blood-fed mosquitoes in their hidi...
#84 Genevieve and the Wider Lens of Queer Ecology (USA)
Genevieve Barnett spends their nights caring for one of the world's most misunderstood animals. From Night Flight Rehabilitation, the bat rehab NGO they founded in Colorado, they nurse little brown bats through white-nose syndrome and gently un...
#83 Sabrina and the Turtles of the Holy Shrine (Bangladesh)
This episode takes us to Bangladesh, a first for the podcast, where Dr. Sabrina Ferdous is doing wildlife health research in one of the most unusual field sites you'll ever hear about: a centuries-old religious shrine, home to a critically enda...
