Heavy metals in white-tailed deer living near a zinc smelter in Pennsylvania
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
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Abstract
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann)) shot within 20 km of the zinc smelters in the Palmerton, Pennsylvania area contained extremely high renal concentrations of cadmium (372 ppm dry weight (dw)) and zinc (600 ppm dw). The deer with the highest renal zinc concentration was shot 4 km from the smelters and had joint lesions similar to those seen in zinc-poisoned horses from the same area. The highest concentrations of lead in both hard and soft tissues were relatively low, 10.9 ppm dw in a sample of teeth, 17.4 ppm dw in a metacarpus, and 4.9 ppm dw in a kidney.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Heavy metals in white-tailed deer living near a zinc smelter in Pennsylvania |
| Series title | Journal of Wildlife Diseases |
| DOI | 10.7589/0090-3558-21.3.289 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1985 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wildlife Disease Association |
| Contributing office(s) | National Wildlife Health Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 289 |
| Last page | 296 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| City | Palmerton |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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