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
1990
canadensis)
skull
ABSTRACT:
The
canadensis
cremnobates)
rosis
was
of a mountain
This
asymmetry occlusion
from specimen
of the of molars,
Investigators
are
tially
confusing
lesions
sheep.
mountain
report
Key
our
of osteoporosis
about
Ovis
chronic
osteoporosis
knowledge in
this
this
horn annuli (Geist, dead approximately autolysis precluded
poten-
with of
in
asymmetry,
canadensis,
duced male;
malocclusion,
report.
Osteomyelitis frequently among
of
canadensis)
often
and
cranial mountain
bones sheep
is linked
The sheaths
to a con-
against ing the (Allred
(1982),
hastily drawn etiologies of and Bradley,
a!.,
1966;
nial
lesions,
Turner, as well
1982)
however,
also
as various
described
dental
alies for this species (Cowan, 1940; 1943; Dalquest and Hoff meister, Kiger, 1963; Bradley and Allred, On 31 May 1986, we obtained of a mature male mountain sheep adensis Mountains
cremnobates) (San Diego
from County,
the
to those volume
from
a normal
of a normal was