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Hungry pups like elephant seal Davey are pouring through our doors. Yes, we are in the swing of pupping season, and that’s why your help is urgently needed.

What if I told you there’s a simple way you can have double the impact for good?

Today, your gift will help provide what a pup like Davey needs: double the fish meals to regain his strength for a second chance at life. How? Because your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000 when you give by Sunday, June 1.

Double my impact!
Elephant seal pup, Davey
humpback whales and California sea lions feeding

Aquatic Mammals

  • Lungworm
  • Parasites
  • Infectious disease
  • Cancer
  • Herpesvirus
  • Domoic acid
  • Pathology
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Leptospirosis
  • Pollution

Abstract

This chapter is an overview of the clinical signs and major disease syndromes affecting captive and wild aquatic mammals.


Duignan, P., 2023. Aquatic Mammals. In Pathology and Epidemiology of Aquatic Animal Diseases for Practitioners (pp. 214-350). John Wiley & Sons Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

lungworm
parasites
infectious disease
cancer
herpesvirus
domoic acid
pathology
toxoplasmosis
leptospirosis
pollution
Pádraig Duignan

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