title: A case of spondylosis deformans in the defleshed skeleton of a wild coyote and its significance to osteopathologic interpretation.
abstract: The skeleton of a wild coyote (Canis latrans), collected in Alturas, California (USA), in 1940 and reported to have died of a blowfly infection, was analyzed. The axial components, primarily a series of fused and deformed vertebrae, had classic osteological indications of spondylosis deformans, a trauma-induced disorder. Severe crippling due to a crushing-type strain was identified as the primary pathological condition to which the coyote succumbed, with death hastened by vertebral degeneration and the complicating infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA.
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Duckler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D002335:Carnivora; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D008297:Male; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology; D013128:Spinal Osteophytosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed