“Seabirds are great study models for research … they always come to the same place at the same moment of the year, so you can recapture the same bird from one year to another … and there are ten thousands of them. So you can compare one colony to another. Every colony on every island is like a gigantic Petri dish.”

The latest installment of the Cornell Veterinary Podcast features Dr. Amandine Gamble, assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, who joins show host Michelle Moyal, D.V.M.’ 07, to talk about her work as a wildlife disease ecologist. Learn how her career journey has taken her to far-flung places like the Falkland Islands, where the Wi-Fi is bad but the mutton is tasty — and how seabirds make the perfect study models. 

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