A high-calorie diet helps Aussie kangaroos fight skin disease

a new Australian study has found that a high-calorie diet can help kangaroos fight the potentially fatal skin disease and improve their survival.
Beasts and beasts are a skin disease caused by parasites," which can be found in the skin cortical layer of an animal, causing itching, hair loss, thickening of the skin layer of the host animal, etc., and seriously causing the host to die. Hundreds of mammals around the world suffer from pythons. Arin Martin of the University of Tasmania in Australia, who led the study, said in an email interview with Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday.
study was published in the
issue. Martin et al. found that as a result of itching symptoms caused by veterinary scabies, sick kangaroos eat less time, rest and tickle more time, and the metabolic rate is higher than that of healthy counterparts, and the loss of calories is greater. In addition, the fatty acid composition of diseased kangaroo adipose tissue has also changed.
" in other words, sick kangaroos consume more calories per day, but because they eat less, they don't consume enough calories to meet their daily consumption. Martin said.
believe a high-calorie diet may help sick kangaroos fight disease and improve survival. Increased energy supply may inhibit changes in the composition of diseased kangaroo fatty acids, allowing them to store nutrients to meet metabolic needs and improve survival. The team is currently working with the Tasmanian government to protect wild kangaroos.
, according to Martin, the prevalence of pythons in Tasmanian kangaroos is about 10%-15%, but regional outbreaks can lead to a significant decline in kangaroo populations. An outbreak of pythons in Narontap National Park on Tasmania's north shore has led to a 94 per cent drop in the number of kangaroos in the region. (Source: Xinhua News Agency, He Jiayue