Report from the field! - Zoo Atlanta

Report from the field! - Zoo Atlanta

Wickenburg, Arizona, where the temperature is a chilly 114 degrees. Staff from Zoo Atlanta’s Research, Herpetology, and Veterinary Departments are conducting grant-funded fieldwork in the Arizona desert this month. About a year ago, in collaboration with veterinary virologists from the University of Florida, we discovered a highly unusual virus in a population of sidewinder rattlesnakes near Yuma, Arizona. The only known virus even remotely simi…