Heavy metals in white-tailed deer living near a zinc smelter in Pennsylvania.
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann) shot within 20 km of the zinc smelters in the Palmerton, Pennsylvania area contained extremely high renal concentrations of cadmium (372 ppm dry weight (dw] and zinc (600 ppm dw). The deer with the highest renal zinc concentration was shot 4 km from the smelters and had joint lesions similar to those seen in zinc-poisoned horses from the same area. The highest concentrations of lead 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.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000032:analysis; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D002104:Cadmium / Q000032:analysis; D003300:Copper / Q000032:analysis; D003670:Deer / Q000378:metabolism*; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005243:Feces / Q000032:analysis; D007668:Kidney / Q000032:analysis; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis; D008669:Metallurgy; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D014070:Tooth / Q000032:analysis; D015032:Zinc / Q000032:analysis
D008670:Metals; D002104:Cadmium; D007854:Lead; D003300:Copper; D015032:Zinc