Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, May 1, 2025. Link.
Most read posts from May 1, 2025 AHD Bulletin –
- Chewy Health president shares 3 trends revolutionizing pet healthcare. Link.
- Extended colostrum feeding adds $500 per heifer, slashes treatment costs, boosts lifetime milk. Link.
- New lifestage infographics-pet owner education, identify health needs. Link.
- Are you a lucky person? Link.
- Pet influencers are increasing in popularity. Link.
- Reminder: Don’t bring home more than ribbons from shows. Link.
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Climate influences a deadly snake’s venom chemistry
Source: The Scientist, April 22, 2025. Link. Scientists may be able to predict the clinical symptoms of venomous snakebites in different locations and help doctors provide appropriate therapies. Research highlighted a link between abiotic factors and the observed venom compositions but the research model did not account for the influence of biotic factors such as the snakes’ diet and predator pressure.
Never underestimate the intelligence of trees
Source: Nautilis, October 30, 2019. Link. Susan Simard has provided profound implications for our understanding of forest ecology. She showed how mycorrhizae-linked trees form networks, with individuals she dubbed Mother Trees at the center of communities that are in turn linked to one another, e11xchanging nutrients and water in a literally pulsing web that includes not only trees but all of a forest’s life.
A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its nest
Source: Associated Press, May 6, 2025. Link. The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the country’s conservation agency said Wednesday.
Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya given $7,700 fine or 1-year prison sentence
Source: Associated Press, May 6, 2025. Link. Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in prison — the minimum penalty for the offense — for violating wildlife conservation laws.
