A 16 year-old female California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) died in a zoological garden following a period of insidious weight loss. Necropsy revealed a loop of intestine strangulated by a fibrous ring connected to a pancreatic mass. Histopathologic diagnosis of the latter was pancreatic duct adenoma.

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Published with the approval of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Contribution No. 907.

© 1978 Wildlife Disease Association
1978