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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1831453" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>4hfarm... they're already in LBL... just still inside the Elk & Bison Prairie enclosure. </p><p></p><p>I did necropsies on every one that died (that they found before they were too far gone) for the first 5-6 years after they brought them in, back in 1996. Most were fatalities associated with bad winters and adjusting to an environment & forage base very different from Alberta, where they originated. Quite a few had brain lesions compatible with meningeal worm larval migration, but those were usually just incidental findings and not necessarily the cause of death. </p><p>I don't know if the population adapted, if conditions improved after they finally got all the deer out of the enclosure, or if they just decided that it wasn't worth bringing every dead elk to the diagnostic lab, but I can't recall the last time they brought one in to the lab for a necropsy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1831453, member: 12607"] 4hfarm... they're already in LBL... just still inside the Elk & Bison Prairie enclosure. I did necropsies on every one that died (that they found before they were too far gone) for the first 5-6 years after they brought them in, back in 1996. Most were fatalities associated with bad winters and adjusting to an environment & forage base very different from Alberta, where they originated. Quite a few had brain lesions compatible with meningeal worm larval migration, but those were usually just incidental findings and not necessarily the cause of death. I don't know if the population adapted, if conditions improved after they finally got all the deer out of the enclosure, or if they just decided that it wasn't worth bringing every dead elk to the diagnostic lab, but I can't recall the last time they brought one in to the lab for a necropsy. [/QUOTE]
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