The next year, the Aero Medical Laboratory began conducting animal experiments in White Sands, N.M., and on June 11, 1948, a V-2 Blossom rocket launched into space with Albert I, a rhesus monkey. Soon after that, space programs began sending up larger animals. The first living organisms to make it into space and back were actually much smaller than a monkey or a dog - in 1947, a container full of fruit flies successfully flew 106 miles above the Earth and parachuted back without any apparent damage. Marine mammals: See our page on marine mammal strandings for what to do if you come across live and dead strandings of marine mammals.Ralph Crane/Time Life Pictures/ Getty Images The project relies on public reports to help monitor health and identify disease threats to British wildlife. Garden animals: Report deaths of garden animals including reptiles, amphibians, birds, and hedgehogs to the Garden Wildlife Health project. Do not touch or handle the dead bird if you can avoid it, but if you must, wash your hands thoroughly as soon as possible, keeping your hands away from your face and any food. You can contact them on the Defra helpline (03459 33 55 77). You should also report any other dead wild birds you find in numbers of five or more. If you are in Wales, dead badgers should be reported to the Wales Veterinary Science Centre, with the Ordnance Survey grid reference of the location if possible, and they will remove the carcass.īirds: In the interests of monitoring and understanding the spread of avian influenza (bird flu), Defra ask that you report any dead waterfowl (swans, geese, ducks), gulls, or birds of prey you find.
Call the BCT helpline (0345 1300 228) who will send you a kit.īadgers: The Badger Trust collect reports of badger related incidents to aid prevention. Some animals should be reported for monitoring purposes.īats: The Bat Conservation Trust encourages the submission of dead bats to a programme run by the Animal & Plant Health Agency that helps monitor UK bats for the spread of a European strain of rabies virus affecting bats.
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