Disease and Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis): trialling the feasibility of oral vaccination against rabies

Thesis

Disease often plays a large role in the population dynamics of wild canids, and is the most immediate threat to the Endangered Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis). Well-documented rabies epizootics have devastated the Bale wolf population three times since 1991, with mortality of 65-75% in affected areas. Intensive monitoring permitted the diagnoses of wolf carcasses found in 2008/09, which confirmed two separate introductions of the same rabies strain from the sympatric dog reservoir...

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Authors: Gordon, C; Christopher H Gordon

• Publication date: 2013
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-xqz08ny0z
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: disease; conservation; Ethiopian wolf; CDV; endangered species; vaccination; canine distemper virus; population dynamics; rabies; modelling
• Subjects: Zoological sciences; Disease (zoology); Ecology (zoology)