Hello readers! If you're familiar with this blog welcome back for another summer of fun stories about field research. First time readers should be prepared to learn about wildlife and the work that goes into studying them. We are two veterinary students from the University of Illinois who will be journeying to the Kane County [...]
Welcome to Blanding's Summer 2020 Blog 1 Hi everyone, welcome to our turtle-tastic blog! Our names are Sam and Kayla and we are the vet students who will be showing you what it's like researching the Blanding's Turtle in Lake County Illinois. We are thrilled to get the chance to take you on our adventures [...]
What the heck is that thing? You may have seen it in your backyard, crawling on your tomato plants. It’s a hornworm! Hornworms are high in protein and fat and we fed one to one of our beardies this past week. There’s a video at the end that shows her eating it and loving it! [...]
Its been another exciting week for dragon team! With only four weeks left until classes start Ivana and Bryce are really trying to enjoy their last few weeks of summer with the bearded dragons and the epi lab before their lives get a little busier. Ivana doing a subcarapacial blood draw This week, [...]
Pictured above are the NINE rats from Miller Park Zoo. One male and eight females! This past week was full of exotic experiences. Let’s start with Ivana. Ivana is currently doing a prospective research study on rats. Summary: she wants to see if there’s a less invasive, but still accurate method to record [...]
This week we are featuring an important part of our team: The Turtle Dogs!
Students in the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab at the UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine take our teaching box turtles out to play! Some love it, some hate it.
Last week, veterinarians and veterinary students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign performed pre-release exams on Alligator Snapping Turtles (ASTs)! Check out our video to see this endangered species health assessments!
What is that dinosaur? Its an alligator snapping turtle! Quite a unique species, huh? Ivana performing a blood draw from the dorsal tail vein of an alligator snapping turtle Let’s start with the highlights, shall we? On Thursday and Friday morning Bryce and Ivana had the opportunity to help with annual [...]
It was a strange week for team beardy, with lots of work, travel and celebration. Ivana started off the week with Dr. Webb helping her with another trial of her prospective Alfaxalone study. The study was discussed in a previous blog post but in summary the study consists of administering alfaxalone through variety of [...]
