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Rhino in a river, almost submerged in the water
Wildlife Pathology
Rhino
Nepal
Chitwan National Park
Wildlife Pathology
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Fellow
Histopathology
Agriculture and Forestry University
Grundium Ocus
Greater One-horned Rhinoceros
Wildlife Mass Mortality
Vector-Borne Disease
Wildlife Research
Wildlife Diagnostics
Pathogen
Wildlife Conservation
National Trust for Nature Conservation
Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation
Mosquito
invasive plants
Grundium

Lunching with Rhinos: Threats to Nepal’s Rhinos Have Been Consuming My Thoughts

April 23, 2025 by Carmen Smith
It was a misty morning on the outskirts of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, and I awoke after a night of little sleep broken by the sounds of dogs barking and roosters crowing....
Histo slide of a newt's skin; examples of a normal and necrosis affected sample
Cornell Wildlife Health Lab Wildlife Pathology
Histopathology
Diagnostic Tools
Pathology
Wildlife Pathology

Behind the Diagnosis Curtain: Histopathology

June 17, 2019 by Jennifer Peaslee, Elizabeth Bunting, and Elizabeth Buckles
When the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab investigates mortalities in wildlife, our specially trained pathologists use diagnostic tools to crack the case....