Sentences with phrase «affected animals generally»

There's no cure, and affected animals generally die within a few weeks of diagnosis.

Not exact matches

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

By comparison, canine transmissible venereal tumor, a sexually transmitted form of cancer that only affects dogs, has been around for at least 11,000 years and is generally not fatal to domesticated animals.

A simple autosomal recessive means that the condition can occur in either sex and that it is generally transmitted by what appear to be normal animals though the late onset of the condition can result in «affected» dogs producing the defect because they were used prior to their «affected» state being known.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

There are billions, even trillions, of different strains of bacteria, fungi, and viruses on the planet and there generally isn't a lot of overlap between the pathogens that affect animals and the ones that affect humans.

Generally younger animals are more seriously affected than older animals.

Affected animals are generally kept on these diets for several months to ensure normal urine is being produced, prior to considering transition to a maintenance type diet.

Much like ticks and other external - body parasites, fleas are generally picked up through contact with an affected surface or other animal.