Osteoporosis and Cranial Asymmetry in a Mountain Sheep (Ovis canadensis) Author(s): Vernon C. Bleich, Julia G. Stahmann, R. Terry Bowyer, and John E. Blake Source: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 26(3):372-376. Published By: Wildlife Disease Association DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-26.3.372 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.7589/0090-3558-26.3.372

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SHORT

COMMUNICATIONS of Wildlife

Journal

Diseases,

Osteoporosis (Ovis

and Cranial

Asymmetry

in a Mountain

Disease

372-376

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canadensis)

skull

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cremnobates)

rosis

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of a mountain

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tially

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lesions

sheep.

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report

Key

our

of osteoporosis

about

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in

asymmetry,

canadensis,

duced male;

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report.

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of

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often

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cranial mountain

bones sheep

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to a con-

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(1982),

hastily drawn etiologies of and Bradley,

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1966;

nial

lesions,

Turner, as well

1982)

however,

also

as various

described

dental

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Osteoporosis and cranial asymmetry in a mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis).

The skull of a mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis cremnobates) exhibiting osteoporosis was recovered from San Diego County, California. This specimen als...
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