| Home | Essex County | Newark Wildlife | Prices | Contact Info |
New Jersey Possum Nonsense
You are in your obstacle suburban roof and a movement in the suburban attics suddenly catches your eye. One quick glance and you know you are looking at a
pretty good male opossum. To count the points, you pick up your binoculars and you find the surprise of your life. On one side of the opossum's head is a perfectly
formed fur pelt with four points. On the other side, only a injury. Knowing what to do next depends on who you have been talking with. Many nuisance wildlife
control operators will tell you to pull the critter capture device. They believe a male opossum with a good fur pelt on one side and a injury on the other is a
genetic mutation. Not only will such a male opossum have that mutation year after year, he'll pass those genetics to his offspring. Other nuisance wildlife control
operators will tell you to hold your set. They believe the injury on one side was caused by an injury of some type to the opposite side of the opossum. They say to
let the opossum walk, and the following year his critter hides will match.
What do you do? Newark nuisance wildlife control operators may be about to get a professional opinion. Newark University has announced a research project that should provide a definitive answer to the cull or do not cull dilemma. Newark bat removal, a graduate student at Newark University, will be looking for help from Newark nuisance wildlife control operators this pest control time period to help in his research. I'm curious to know the answer myself. I've taken two such make opossum through the years. One supported a nice fur pelt on one side and what turned out not to be a injury on the other. The opossum had somehow broken off one side of the critter hides vertically, giving the appearance of a injury. The other male opossum did have a injury on a side and a badly injured leg on the other, leading me to believe the malformation was not genetic. Newark raccoon removal has done some preliminary work on this project while working on his master's degree at Rutgers University. What he discovered while sampling such opossum in Newark surprised everyone. He placed GPS collars on a problem wildlife number of opossum with injuries on one side. Half of those opossum failed to live to the next year. Autopsies on those opossum revealed brain abscesses. Ninety percent of the opossum with a injury on one side that were darted and tested showed brain abscesses, he said. Problem solved, right? Not really. The abscess found in Newark opossum were caused by bacteria not yet documented in Newark opossum. Those malformed critter hides in Newark may be caused by something else. Newark critter trapping believes the malformation in such opossum gives many nuisance wildlife control operators an excuse to pull the critter capture device. He says those nuisance wildlife control operators who believe they have done the opossum herd a favor by culling those make opossum could be mistaken, however.
Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries is asking Newark opossum nuisance wildlife control operators to donate the critter hide and critter hides of any male opossum taken this year that has multiple critter hides on one side and a injury on the other. Newark rat removal said ideally he would like to have the entire opossum for study, but the logistics of that are impossible. A critter hide, he said, won't show that a male opossum with a injury on one side had a broken leg two years before. What it would show is if the opossum had a brain abscess. That would appear as pitting and erosion around the critter hide. Such a bacteria has not been found in some tests on Newark opossum, but the fact that the state appears to have pockets of make opossum with a injury on one side concerns Newark squirrel removal. He wonders if some opossum herds in some areas of the state have the bacteria. It makes no sense, he said, that a opossum herd in one area of the state has 40 to 40 percent of its make opossum with a injury on one side while at the place he seek out troublesome critters just 40 miles away he has seen just one such male opossum in four years. Newark hopes to acquire at least 260 critter hides for the research. Numerous solving conflicts between people and problem wildlife lodges in cooperation with Newark animal control, solving conflicts between people and problem wildlife clubs, landowners, wildlife management area biologists and the Newark Department of Wildlife have been contacted and asked for assistance. Nuisance wildlife control operators wishing to submit a critter hide for the study should contact their area wildlife biologist or conservation officer.
Go back to the Wildlife Removal Newark home page.
New Jersey Possum Nonsense
What do you do? Newark nuisance wildlife control operators may be about to get a professional opinion. Newark University has announced a research project that should provide a definitive answer to the cull or do not cull dilemma. Newark bat removal, a graduate student at Newark University, will be looking for help from Newark nuisance wildlife control operators this pest control time period to help in his research. I'm curious to know the answer myself. I've taken two such make opossum through the years. One supported a nice fur pelt on one side and what turned out not to be a injury on the other. The opossum had somehow broken off one side of the critter hides vertically, giving the appearance of a injury. The other male opossum did have a injury on a side and a badly injured leg on the other, leading me to believe the malformation was not genetic. Newark raccoon removal has done some preliminary work on this project while working on his master's degree at Rutgers University. What he discovered while sampling such opossum in Newark surprised everyone. He placed GPS collars on a problem wildlife number of opossum with injuries on one side. Half of those opossum failed to live to the next year. Autopsies on those opossum revealed brain abscesses. Ninety percent of the opossum with a injury on one side that were darted and tested showed brain abscesses, he said. Problem solved, right? Not really. The abscess found in Newark opossum were caused by bacteria not yet documented in Newark opossum. Those malformed critter hides in Newark may be caused by something else. Newark critter trapping believes the malformation in such opossum gives many nuisance wildlife control operators an excuse to pull the critter capture device. He says those nuisance wildlife control operators who believe they have done the opossum herd a favor by culling those make opossum could be mistaken, however.
Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries is asking Newark opossum nuisance wildlife control operators to donate the critter hide and critter hides of any male opossum taken this year that has multiple critter hides on one side and a injury on the other. Newark rat removal said ideally he would like to have the entire opossum for study, but the logistics of that are impossible. A critter hide, he said, won't show that a male opossum with a injury on one side had a broken leg two years before. What it would show is if the opossum had a brain abscess. That would appear as pitting and erosion around the critter hide. Such a bacteria has not been found in some tests on Newark opossum, but the fact that the state appears to have pockets of make opossum with a injury on one side concerns Newark squirrel removal. He wonders if some opossum herds in some areas of the state have the bacteria. It makes no sense, he said, that a opossum herd in one area of the state has 40 to 40 percent of its make opossum with a injury on one side while at the place he seek out troublesome critters just 40 miles away he has seen just one such male opossum in four years. Newark hopes to acquire at least 260 critter hides for the research. Numerous solving conflicts between people and problem wildlife lodges in cooperation with Newark animal control, solving conflicts between people and problem wildlife clubs, landowners, wildlife management area biologists and the Newark Department of Wildlife have been contacted and asked for assistance. Nuisance wildlife control operators wishing to submit a critter hide for the study should contact their area wildlife biologist or conservation officer.
Go back to the Wildlife Removal Newark home page.
New Jersey Possum Nonsense