Wildlife Forensic Pathology

Cooper, John E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64682-0_10

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“…It is clear that the decomposition rate is a multifactorial process related to abiotic factors such as temperature [ 160 – 162 ] or humidity [ 163 – 165 ] and biotic factors such as bacteria [ 166 – 168 ] or insects [ 169 – 171 ]. Understanding the correlation between the location of a carcass found, along with the ecosystem in this place and inside the carrion itself, is valuable and can shed light on different aspects, such as the animal's origin [ 157 , 172 ].…”

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Wildlife parasitology: sample collection and processing, diagnostic constraints, and methodological challenges in terrestrial carnivores

Rojas,

Germitsch,

Oren

et al. 2024

Parasites Vectors

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Wild terrestrial carnivores play a crucial role as reservoir, maintenance, and spillover hosts for a wide parasite variety. They may harbor, shed, and transmit zoonotic parasites and parasites of veterinary importance for domestic hosts. Although wild carnivores are globally distributed and comprise many different species, some living in close proximity to human settlements, only a few studies have investigated parasites of wild terrestrial carnivores using non-specific techniques. Access to samples of wild carnivores may be challenging as some species are protected, and others are secretive, possibly explaining the data paucity. Considering the importance of wild carnivores’ health and ecological role, combined with the lack of specific diagnostic methodologies, this review aims to offer an overview of the diagnostic methods for parasite investigation in wild terrestrial carnivores, providing the precise techniques for collection and analysis of fecal, blood, and tissue samples, the environmental impact on said samples, and the limitations researchers currently face in analyzing samples of wild terrestrial carnivores. In addition, this paper offers some crucial information on how different environmental factors affect parasite detection postmortem and how insects can be used to estimate the time of death with a specific highlight on insect larvae. The paper contains a literature review of available procedures and emphasizes the need for diagnostic method standardization in wild terrestrial carnivores. Graphical Abstract

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