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Toxicity of diclofenac to Gyps vultures
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Three endemic vulture species Gyps bengalensis, Gyps indicus and Gyps tenuirostris are critically endangered following dramatic declines in South Asia resulting from exposure to diclofenac, a veterinary drug present in the livestock carcasses that they scavenge. Diclofenac is widely used globally and could present a risk to Gyps species from other regions. In this study, we test the toxicity of diclofenac to a Eurasian (Gyps fulvus) and an African (Gyps africanus) species, neither of which is threatened. A dose of 0.8 mg kg−1 of diclofenac was highly toxic to both species, indicating that they are at least as sensitive to diclofenac as G. bengalensis, for which we estimate an LD50 of 0.1–0.2 mg kg−1. We suggest that diclofenac is likely to be toxic to all eight Gyps species, and that G. africanus, which is phylogenetically close to G. bengalensis, would be a suitable surrogate for the safety testing of alternative drugs to diclofenac.
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- Authors
- Swan, G. E., Cuthbert, R., Quevedo, M., Green, R. E., Pain, D. J., Bartels, P., Cunningham, A. A., Duncan, N., Meharg, A. A., Lindsay Oaks, J., Parry-Jones, J., Shultz, S., Taggart, M. A., Verdoorn, G., & Wolter, K.
- Venue
- Biology Letters
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2006-01-10
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 279-282
- ISSN
- 1744-9561 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-957X
- OpenAlex
- W2138077967
- Cited by
- 299
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 9.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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