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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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Abstract

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.

G. H A. Borst and G. H M. Counotte "SHORTFALLS USING SECOND-GENERATION ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 33(1), 85, (1 March 2002). https://doi.org/10.1638/1042-7260(2002)033[0085:SUSGAR]2.0.CO;2
Received: 13 December 2000; Published: 1 March 2002
KEYWORDS
Cathartes aura
Dacelo novae-guinae
Rollulus roulroul
Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides
Tockus deckeni
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