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| Furtado, M.M.; Filoni, C. | |
| Diseases and their role for jaguar conservation | |
| 2008 Cat News (Special Issue 4): 35-40 | |
Recent declines in free-ranging wildlife populations have highlighted the potentially devastating effect of infectious disease. Diseases are an increasing threat to wild felids due to habitat restriction and encroachment from domestic animals. Domestic animals can directly or indirectly enter in contact with natural felid populations, potentially disseminating pathogens and altering disease patterns. Although wildlife populations can have the ability to cope with perturbations such as diseases, the relative increase in mortality and morbidity in dwindling populations and the introduction of new pathogens can exert important effects on demography, creating great concern for any endangered species. However, the potential role of diseases in wild carnivore populations is still poorly understood, and this is especially true for the jaguar _Panthera onca_. |
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