Steven Rinella talks with Krysten Schuler, a wildlife disease ecologist at Cornell University’s Wildlife Health Lab.
Topics discussed: Watch our behind-the-scenes footage from Cornell’s necropsy lab; the fungus that affects salamanders; deer ticks carrying blood containing prions; trying to figure out why things die; mange; brain worm; the infection cycle of when worm larvae in deer poop is eaten by a snail, that then gets eaten by a moose; insect contamination on raw produce; liver flukes–parasites that look like the sidecar of a liver; found dead; winter tick; lead in birds and incinerating fisher liver to test level amounts; CWD surveillance; making CWD smash burgers for your friends who say they don’t care; hemorrhagic diseases and floating in ponds; the time when Steve defended his family from a “rabid” squirrel; the rabid beaver that bit five people; how raccoons seem to like carcasses with diabetes; nasal bots; and more.
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Ep. 538: Does Wildlife Win or Lose With Renewable Energy?
Ep. 537: BONUS DROP - Bass to Bluewater with the MeatEater Crew
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Ep. 535: The Fight to Save Hunting
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Ep. 533: Wild Turkeys: Pluckin’ and Skinnin’ with Jesse Griffiths
Ep. 532: BONUS DROP - Turkey Stories with Jani
Ep. 531: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CIII
Ep. 530: Turkey Week - Gobblers Made in America
Ep: 529: BONUS DROP - Steve and Clay Talk Alaska Wolf Trapping
Ep. 528: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CII
Ep. 527: Finding the Funny in Stuff with Jeff Foxworthy
Ep. 526: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CI
Ep. 525: Game Wardens and Grizzlies with CJ Box
Ep. 524: BONUS DROP - A Buck-A-Day South of the Border
Ep. 523: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia C
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