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Salamander Video Series: Silvery Salamander Health Assessment

by Kathy Andrews Wright |  August 1, 2022 |  Research, Wildlife
A researcher wearing green plastic gloves holds a gray and black silvery salamander. In the researcher's other hand in a square white bucket. In the background is a leaf littered ground and solid white fence.

Silvery salamander, Ambystoma platineum. Photo by Uros Marjanovic.

Film Date:

August, September and October 2021 and March 2022

Speaker:

Laura Adamovicz, Wildlife Veterinarian, Wildlife Epidemiology Lab, University of Illinois

Produced by:

Sarah and Uros Marjanovic

Edited by:

Sarah Marjanovic

In Part 2 of the Salamanders of Illinois video series, Laura Adamovicz, Wildlife Veterinarian with the University of Illinois Wildlife Epidemiology Lab, along with Michelle Waligora and Kennymac Durante, fourth year University of Illinois veterinary students and members of the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab, discuss the critical importance of assessing the health of animals. In a project ongoing since 2016, the Lab, in collaboration with the Illinois Natural History Survey, has been conducting health assessments of adult silvery salamanders in Illinois.

If you are interested in viewing the text alternative for the video click the CC option at the lower margin of the video.

Kathy Andrews Wright retired from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources where she was editor of OutdoorIllinois magazine. She is currently the editor of OutdoorIllinois Journal.

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