--------:---:-----:------:-------------------------------------------- : : :Cause : Specimen:Sex: Age : of : Condition number : : :death : --------:---:-----:------:-------------------------------------------- _Years_ M-28 M 5-1/2 Wolves Right hind foot: "Old healed ankylosis of the pastern joint ... a spontaneously healed bacterial arthritis with the destroyed joint cavity filled in by solid bone. This deer probably had defective gait"[31] (fig. 14). M-29 F 5-1/2 Wolves Front foot: "A 3x4x5 cm. fibrous mass in the subcutis about the digital flexor tendon on the volar surface of the metacarpus. The surface was denuded, ulcerated, and superficially infected by surface bacteria.... Probably did detract from the animal's speed of flight"[31] (fig. 15). M-37 F 7-1/2 Wolves Hind foot: "Probable that the lesion was at one time an active bacterial bone marrow infection that had eventually fistulated to the skin.... Regional tendons and their sheaths were also present among this inflammation and scarring, and it would be fair to assume that the animal's agility was impaired to some extent."[31] M-115 M 4-1/2 Hunter Right front hoof: Broken at tip. M-196 F 4-1/2 Wolves Left front foot: "Two severe transverse lacerations on the volar surface. Each was approximately 4 cm. in length. One was located at the margin of the heel, and the other was located several cm. proximad. The more proximal wound had severed the flexon tendons, and the consequent uselessness of the limb was suggested by the splayed toes, the unmarred hoof wall and unworn soles"[32] (fig. 16).