Remember when you were a kid and your parents did everything possible to keep your curious fingers out of electrical sockets? You didn’t know any better, and, if no one was watching you, the curiosity easily could have gotten the best of you as a young child just trying to learn about your environment. The […]
Finally Finals (Wait, What?!)
Vet school semesters are like no other. By the time you realize the semester has passed by, sometimes you’ve been too busy to even think about what the end of a semester means, let alone study for it, and then, finals time is here! For me, this time comes almost directly after the Thanksgiving holiday, […]
Outbreak Alert
There are great challenges facing the Great Lakes in terms of wildlife conservation. One of note is the increasing incidence of botulism among fish-eating birds such as loons, mergansers, and gulls. They have been in peril for the past fifty years, with periodic outbreaks affecting their populations. Just in the past twenty years, hundreds of […]