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Illinois research looks deep into how social lives of deer spread disease

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Wildlife researchers at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale are using cameras and videos to take a closer look at how deer socialize to better understand how a deadly disease is spread.
A lot of videos. Working with the deer population at SIU’s Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center, John Vinson, a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Wildlife Sustainability Research, assisted in an effort in 2023 to capture and camera-collar 20 deer.

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Preventing largemouth bass cannibalism is focus of Southern Illinois University study

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The largemouth bass is popular among anglers, who know that familiar “thump” of a fish hitting a lure.
But researchers at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale are studying ways to keep the infamously cannibalistic species off its own menu.
Can fishermen benefit from the research? It’s too early to say. Can anglers learn from it? Most certainly they can.

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Southern Illinois University tracking invasive nutria among beavers, muskrats, otters

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Derek Whipkey is studying the distribution of beavers, muskrats, river otters, and mink across the bottom portion of Illinois. 
While he’s at it, the researcher at Southern Illinois University also is looking into reports of a fifth semiaquatic mammal species that is gradually making its way into the region – an unwanted new neighbor that wrecks habitats and spreads disease. Yup, the nutria.

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Illinois’ deer increased movement in study areas as more humans hunkered down during pandemic

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Deer and other wildlife moved more freely during the COVID-19 lockdown, according to a new study that included whitetails in Illinois and a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
It is a not-surprising-yet-interesting point about the pandemic’s impact: wildlife basically had a green light to move more freely by “disentangling” humans’ impact on wildlife movement patterns.

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Fish interactions in Upper Mississippi River basin gets closer look to aid management

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Extending from southern Illinois all the way up to Minnesota, the Upper Mississippi River basin’s system comprises an extremely complex network of streams and watersheds.
Little is known about how those systems and the native fishes in them interact. Shay Valentine, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale doctoral student, is combining various lab techniques to examine habitats and diets of 12 fish species to learn more about how they use resources in the river.

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