Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides can give rise to unexpected casualties in nontarget species in zoos. The first two offspring of a pair of turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) died of brodifacoum toxicosis. The adult birds fed rodenticide-killed mice to their offspring. There are previous case reports of small carnivorous birds (Dacelo novae-guinae and Tockus deckeni) killed eating poisoned (difenacoum and brodifacoum) mice. Even a granivorous species (Rollulus roulroul) died, probably by contamination of its food by cockroaches that transported the rodenticide.
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1 March 2002
SHORTFALLS USING SECOND-GENERATION ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES
G. H A. Borst,
G. H M. Counotte
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Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
Vol. 33 • No. 1
March 2002
Vol. 33 • No. 1
March 2002
Cathartes aura
Dacelo novae-guinae
Rollulus roulroul
Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides
Tockus deckeni