HEAVY METALS IN WHITE-TAILED DEER LIVING NEAR A ZINC SMELTER IN PENNSYLVANIA
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases
- Vol. 21 (3), 289-296
- https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-21.3.289
Abstract
White-tailed deer (Q. virginianus (Zimmermann)) shot within 20 km of the Zn smelters in the Palmerton, Pennsylvania, area contained extremely high renal concentrations of Cd (372 ppm dry wt (dw)) and Zn (600 ppm dw). The deer with the highest renal Zn concentration was shot 4 km from the smelters and had joint lesions similar to those seen in Zn-poisoned horses from the same area. The highest concentrations of Pb 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.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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