PPE (personal protective equipment – gloves, face shields, etc) is recommended when handling otters for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: 

Discuss the potential effects diseases have on overall ecosystem health. Provide specific examples for each potential effect. 

Accurate age is determined by

Which term is NOT used to define odontocete groupings?

What does Dr Moore argue about consumer demand in relation to whaling? 

What major threat to North Atlantic right whales is briefly mentioned in the lecture but not extensively discussed? 

The long spine sea urchin became infected with a pathogen and the entire Caribbean became infected with this unknown pathogen in just 13 months.

Which of the following is true about PaV1 in Spiny lobsters?

Considering the physical differences regarding epidemiology of pathogens in the land versus the sea, which of the following is true?

Melanoides tuberculata, a cone-snail, is the most important definitive host of the C. formosanus life cycle.