Figure 1

(A) shows the experimental configuration of striped skunk pens that included a den box, a litter box, a shallow pond, a mixed food bowl and an enrichment toy. A second watering device was added to the pen at 1 day post infection. (B) shows a striped skunk utilizing a food dish containing duck and skunk feed. (C) shows a cottontail rabbit utilizing the sod used in the cottontail-mallard experiment. The cottontail-mallard experimental configuration had several unique attributes when compared to the setup of the striped skunk-mallard configuration (see Methods).