In a recent post, I discussed how humans have been infecting free-roaming wildlife and zoo animals with Covid 19. These are cases of a zoonotic disease “spilling over” from humans to animals. As such, animal populations (domestic, captive, and wild) can and do serve as reservoirs for infectious disease that may spill back to humans. In response to the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, spillover of zoonotic diseases has received much research attention around the world. One s

It’s been 5 months since my debut novel, Legend Keepers: The Chosen One, was released. As a writer who had never published fiction before, I didn’t know how it would be received. My publisher and I entered the book in several regional and national award competitions. Blowing my socks off, I learned this week that Feathered Quill Book Awards honored Legend Keepers with silver medals in both competition categories in which it was entered: Young Readers and Animal Stories for Ch