Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals

As the lead of the Zoological Pathology Program (ZPP), Dr. Terio provides comprehensive pathology services to the Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo, John G. Shedd Aquarium and Lincoln Park Zoo as well as to local, national and international wildlife agencies and conservation programs. Her research focuses on the pathogenesis of diseases affecting free-ranging and captive wild animal populations. She serves as an advisor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Felid Taxon Advisory Group, several individual felid Species Survival Plans (SSP), the Chimpanzee SSP as well as for in situ conservation programs including the Cheetah Conservation Fund and the Gombe Ecosystem Health Project. Dr. McAloose directs the pathology and molecular diagnostic laboratories at the WCS, which provide diagnostic services and consultation to the organization’s 4 zoos and aquarium in New York City and their local and international conservation projects in over 40 countries. Primary interests include emerging diseases and the development and implementation of field-based tools for disease diagnostics, species identification, and biodiversity studies. She serves as an advisor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Felid Taxon Advisory Group and individual felid and canid Species Survival Plans (SSP). She is also a Senior Courtesy Lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Veterinary Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. She serves as a Scientific Advisory Board member for the Morris Animal Foundation and has served as a member of the National Marine Fisheries Services/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Working Group for Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events. Dr. Judy St. Leger is a consulting veterinarian for global wildlife health. She is an adjunct professor of Pathology at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Her work includes diagnostic investigations in the health of aquatic animals and birds. Her research focuses on marine mammal viral screening, pathogenesis of select infectious agents, and killer whale disease concerns. Dr. St. Leger has authored or coauthored 150 scientific manuscripts and is a frequent lecturer on topics related to pathology of marine species. She is a past associate editor for the journal Veterinary Pathology and past president of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM). She has served on the boards of the CL Davis Foundation and the scientific advisory board of the Morris Animal Foundation.

1. Wildlife Necropsy
2. Forensic Wildlife Pathology
3. Laboratory Diagnostics
4. Introduction to Comparative Clinical Pathology
5. Bovidae, Antilocapridae, Giraffidae, Tragulidae, Hippopotamidae
6. Cervidae
7. Camelidae 185
8. Suidae
9. Canidae, Ursidae, and Ailuridae
10. Felidae 263
11. Mustelids
12. Procyonidae, Viverridae, Hyenidae, Herpestidae, Eupleridae, and Prionodontidae
13. Prosimians
14. New World and Old World Monkeys
15. Apes
16. Proboscidae
17. Perissodactyls
18. Monotremes and Marsupials
19. Lagomorpha
20. Rodentia
21. Xenartha (Anteaters, Sloths, Armadillos); Erinacoemorpha (Hedgehogs, Moonrats); Some Afrotheria (Aardvarks, Hyrax, Elephant Shrews, Golden Moles, Tenrecs), and Phloidota (Pangolins)
22. Cetacea
23. Pinnipediae
24. Wildlife and Zoo Pathology Sirenia
25. Chiroptera
26. Palaeognathae: Apterygiformes, Casuariiformes, Rheiformes, Struthioniformes; Tinamiformes
27. Sphenisciformes, Gaviiformes, Podicipediformes, Procellariiformes, and Pelecaniformes
28. Phoenicopteriformes
29. Anseriformes, Ciconiiformes, Charadriiformes, and Gruiformes
30. Birds of Prey
31. Galliformes and Columbiformes
32. Psittacines, Coliiformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes
33. Passeriformes, Caprimulgiformes, Coraciiformes, Piciformes, Bucerotiformes, and Apodiformes
34. Chelonia
35. Crocodilia
36. Lacertilia
37. Serpentes
38. Amphibia
39. Pathology of the Osteichthyes
40. Chondrichthyes
41. Invertebrates