Study highlights risk of mosquito borne illnesses to captive orca

Friday, May 31, 2013 - 07:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Marine biologists John Jett and Jeffrey Ventra of Stetson University and Louisiana State University respectively have published a paper in Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology that suggests captive orca may be more at risk of dying from mosquito borne illnesses than has been previously thought.

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