Collecting Gravid Females.

[Stefan-A]

What exactly are you asking for? A list of cases where released or escaped animals have introduced diseases into the environment? When it comes to diseases that affect amphibians, Chytridiomycosis would be one such case and it's one with global consequences. It's just an example of such a case and like I said, there's no way for any of us to know what you could unwittingly spread to the wild population, or bring into the captive one. We're not clairvoyant. Unknown pathogen also refers to the fact that one doesn't necessarily know of its presence in the animal that's released. It could be a virus, a bacteria, a fungus, a prion disease, a protozoa, a parasite etc. How big the risk is may vary, but it doesn't ever go away and there are countless strands and even strands of normally harmless bacteria that may be deadly to other individuals of the same species or other species. One problem is that it's usually identified only after it's spread into a population where there's no resistance to it and when it is already wreaking havoc. So what are the consequences of not taking the risk?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

What exactly are you asking for? A list of cases where released or escaped animals have introduced diseases into the environment? When it comes to diseases that affect amphibians, Chytridiomycosis would be one such case and it's one with global consequences. It's just an example of such a case and like I said, there's no way for any of us to know what you could unwittingly spread to the wild population, or bring into the captive one. We're not clairvoyant. Unknown pathogen also refers to the fact that one doesn't necessarily know of its presence in the animal that's released. It could be a virus, a bacteria, a fungus, a prion disease, a protozoa, a parasite etc. How big the risk is may vary, but it doesn't ever go away and there are countless strands and even strands of normally harmless bacteria that may be deadly to other individuals of the same species or other species. One problem is that it's usually identified only after it's spread into a population where there's no resistance to it and when it is already wreaking havoc. So what are the consequences of not taking the risk?

Thank you, Stefan.