North America’s Most Vulnerable Pollinators
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Using tracking dogs to locate wild Florida panthers, Howard and other National Zoo researchers conducted reproductive exams on many free-ranging panthers and animals that had been killed. Results indicated that the animals had severe reproductive problems, including extremely poor semen quality with low sperm numbers and high sperm abnormalities. The Florida pumas also had severe health problems: susceptibility to disease, low kitten survival, heart murmurs and rare heart defects.
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