This is a Membership Live Stream!
Recorded: 1st March 2022
LIVE with: World renown wildlife vet, Dr Peter Rogers (BVSc) and Terry-Lee Honiball (Large Carnivore Ecologist)
Topic: African Wild Dog – Veterinary Medicine (Dr Peter Rogers) and Ecology (Terry-Lee Honiball)
You can join in with the discussions and ask questions via the below collaborating university society pages:
Primary collaborators:
Nottingham – Nottingham University Veterinary Zoological Society
Edinburgh – Dick Vet Wildlife Conservation Society
London – RVC Zoological Society
Secondary collaborators:
Bristol – Bristol University Veterinary Zoological Society
Liverpool – Liverpool University Veterinary Zoological Society
Glasgow – Glasgow University Veterinary Zoological Society
Worldwide – International Veterinary Students Association – Wild & Exotic Animals Community
Previous Livestreams available here.
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14 responses to “Wildlife Vet Online Live 17”
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Can you comment on the relationship humans have with wild dogs and how we are currently a threat to them ?
What factors do you think contribute to their success rates as predators? – Yashu 🙂
Do individuals in a pack of wild dogs get an equal share of the prey? If not, how do they divide the prey that they catch?
As a carnivore, how much parasite transmission is there from the prey the wild dogs eat? Also, do the weakest prey in a herd have the largest parasite load?
I was reading about how the dominant male and female produce the majority of pups for a group of dogs, is this reducing genetic diversity within the species?
Are there any wild dog and domestic dog interactions and do these have any impact on the species~ spread of disease, mating etc.
Do you often work with livestock farmers to stop them shooting dogs and how do you go about that?
When would you intervene in a case where an African Wild Dog was injured, would you intervene, how would you go about isolating and treating the animal away from the herd and then how would you release it back into the wild or is this not possible? Thank you.
Living in large packs with usually one dominant breeding pair, could you talk about pup rearing in African Wild Dogs? Is the responsibility shared by non parental members of the pack?
When you intervene and treat individual wild dogs, do you also give them any vaccinations? If so, do you vaccinate for similar pathogens found in domestic dogs?
If treating a wild dog do you screen for any diseases or issues that would cause them to be unreleasable? Similar to how feral cats are something screened for FIV and FeLV
Do wild dogs struggle to compete with other larger, dominant predators or are other predators much of a threat to their population compared with humans?
Are the dogs patterns individually unique? Similar to fingerprints?
Hi Klara, thanks so much for your question. It has been added to next months list of questions as we ran out of time tonight!