No research update tonight. Office day. Included in today’s work was a compilation of information on 26-year-old Midge who died in November of 2009. She was necropsied at the UMN Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and found to have died of blastomycosis. We are writing a paper with the vets there to document this—the first case of blasto found in a wild black bear.
Thank you for all you do!
—Sue Mansfield, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center