SCIENCE

Book ID 469

Dogfight Erupts Over Animal Studies in the Serengeti

SCIENCE

Extract Date: 1995 Nov 24

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Extract ID: 1345

SCIENCE News This Week Volume 270, Number 5240, Issue of 24 November 1995 ©1995 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The last wild dogs being studied in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park have died, and some researchers point their fingers at scientists studying the animals, arguing that handling--with radio collars and darts--so stressed the dogs that they succumbed to rabies infections. Wildlife biologists vigorously dispute the scientific basis of this hypothesis in a current publication and say the charges have hampered a variety of wildlife studies.

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