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http://www.larazon.es/noticia/5098-los-extranos-wombats-de-australia-mueren-por-desnutricion
Spanish-English translation
Wombats in Australia die from malnutrition. Mange?
The disappearance of plants that nourish the wombat, a marsupial native Australian is killing these elusive herbivores that have the appearance of a bear cub and a badger.
25 May 12 - Sydney (Australia) - Efe
The species of hairy-nosed wombats Southern (Lasiorhinus latifrons) inhabiting the State of South Australia has increasingly less likely to feed on native plants because of the degradation of the wild, uncontrolled grazing and the introduction of a flora does not contain the nutrients it needs to survive. why these animals chubby feet long, thick legs, brown hair and a short tail, feed now based plants that are, although that seems to cause poison his death is called verrucaria (Heliotropium europaeum). The veterinarian Wayne Boardman at the University of Adelaide, considered an expert in these animals, told Efe that in general, the current vegetation is not just plants and herbs that will provide "the nutrients needed "to survive and also the eating of the verrucaria" will affect the liver, "until by that condition dies" slow starvation ". "It is a chronic slow. basically starve hiding in their burrows and that often do not see the bodies, "said Boardman. In South Australia has been detected in the last two years the presence of a large number of Wombats patients, with a pronounced thinness, hair loss, dermatitis and skin wounds. In severe cases, these marsupials suffer from bleeding and acute dermatitis and severe lesions in the liver, according to research conducted by Boardman and his colleague Lucy Woolford. At first when detected in South Australia the first wombats sick around the Murray River experts believed that it was mange and this hypothesis gained weight multiply the number of cases with subsequent flooding in the area. But then he noted that another large number of specimens that lived many miles Murray River also showed the same symptoms, which led to investigate motivated veterinarians from other tracks to see what is happening. Boardman and Woolford have emphasized that not all animals of this species have signs of liver alopecia and in any case we must consider several factors to explain the death of them, like chronic nutritional stress, deficiencies, toxicity and hormonal disturbances. But they are sure of is that in the tested animals showed no evidence of mange. Experts believe that the problem caused by the disease is alarming and can decimate the population as has happened with the animal called the Tasmanian devil and the koala, which are rapidly disappearing because of facial tumors or chlamydia, respectively. The Australian activist Brigitte Stevens of the Organization for Wombat Awareness, also called "bulldozer of the forest", recently told ABC local radio station that the problem is "immense." Stevens told one day saw a period of three hours 274 wombats dying and only four living specimens that without the disease. In South Australia, according to the zoo in this state, it is estimated that there are only about 100,000 wombats, a species whose reproductive capacity starts from two years old and a stop time, like other marsupials, the female urogenital stored in the brood pouch for several months. The lack of adequate nutrition also affects the reproductive cycle of this species whose diet depends heavily on the austral winter rains that make plants germinate and cause increased levels of testosterone in males and encourage ovulation in females. The wombats are considered by farmers as a pest because when proliferate often cause crop damage.
Spanish-English translation
Wombats in Australia die from malnutrition. Mange?
The disappearance of plants that nourish the wombat, a marsupial native Australian is killing these elusive herbivores that have the appearance of a bear cub and a badger.
25 May 12 - Sydney (Australia) - Efe
The species of hairy-nosed wombats Southern (Lasiorhinus latifrons) inhabiting the State of South Australia has increasingly less likely to feed on native plants because of the degradation of the wild, uncontrolled grazing and the introduction of a flora does not contain the nutrients it needs to survive. why these animals chubby feet long, thick legs, brown hair and a short tail, feed now based plants that are, although that seems to cause poison his death is called verrucaria (Heliotropium europaeum). The veterinarian Wayne Boardman at the University of Adelaide, considered an expert in these animals, told Efe that in general, the current vegetation is not just plants and herbs that will provide "the nutrients needed "to survive and also the eating of the verrucaria" will affect the liver, "until by that condition dies" slow starvation ". "It is a chronic slow. basically starve hiding in their burrows and that often do not see the bodies, "said Boardman. In South Australia has been detected in the last two years the presence of a large number of Wombats patients, with a pronounced thinness, hair loss, dermatitis and skin wounds. In severe cases, these marsupials suffer from bleeding and acute dermatitis and severe lesions in the liver, according to research conducted by Boardman and his colleague Lucy Woolford. At first when detected in South Australia the first wombats sick around the Murray River experts believed that it was mange and this hypothesis gained weight multiply the number of cases with subsequent flooding in the area. But then he noted that another large number of specimens that lived many miles Murray River also showed the same symptoms, which led to investigate motivated veterinarians from other tracks to see what is happening. Boardman and Woolford have emphasized that not all animals of this species have signs of liver alopecia and in any case we must consider several factors to explain the death of them, like chronic nutritional stress, deficiencies, toxicity and hormonal disturbances. But they are sure of is that in the tested animals showed no evidence of mange. Experts believe that the problem caused by the disease is alarming and can decimate the population as has happened with the animal called the Tasmanian devil and the koala, which are rapidly disappearing because of facial tumors or chlamydia, respectively. The Australian activist Brigitte Stevens of the Organization for Wombat Awareness, also called "bulldozer of the forest", recently told ABC local radio station that the problem is "immense." Stevens told one day saw a period of three hours 274 wombats dying and only four living specimens that without the disease. In South Australia, according to the zoo in this state, it is estimated that there are only about 100,000 wombats, a species whose reproductive capacity starts from two years old and a stop time, like other marsupials, the female urogenital stored in the brood pouch for several months. The lack of adequate nutrition also affects the reproductive cycle of this species whose diet depends heavily on the austral winter rains that make plants germinate and cause increased levels of testosterone in males and encourage ovulation in females. The wombats are considered by farmers as a pest because when proliferate often cause crop damage.