Sentences with phrase «by wild mammals»

However, leptospirosis is not uncommon in northern Californian dogs both from urban backyards and also with exposure histories involving livestock and areas frequented by wild mammals.

Not exact matches

A newborn wild beluga whale is cradled by a Shedd marine mammal expert during a feeding session at an Alaska aquarium.

Deer stalking, fox snaring and the trapping of wild birds and mammals are all equally controversial and fiercely opposed by animal welfare organisations.

The law, introduced by Labour in 2004, bans the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild mammals in England and Wales.

What is required is a law, as previously proposed by Labour peer Lord Donoughue, that would create an offence for any act that causes unnecessary suffering to any wild mammal in any circumstance.

The way to resolve this is by way of a new wild mammals welfare law that would address such situations and any accusations of causing unnecessary suffering would then be tested in court on the basis of evidence, rather than prejudice or ignorance.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

Unsustainable hunting for consumption and trade of wild meat (also known as bushmeat) by humans represents a significant extinction threat to wild terrestrial mammal populations, perhaps most notably in parts of Asia, Africa and South America [4 — 6].

bushmeat Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.

Additionally, body fat percentages in wild mammals typically vary by age and sex and also seasonally in a cyclic waxing and waning manner with changing availability of food sources and the photoperiod (Figure 5)(57,58).

Dogs can develop heartworm disease by getting bit by a mosquito that has had contact with a heartworm infected mammal (which includes a large assortment of wild animals besides just dogs).

Rabies is spread through the saliva of mammals, most commonly by wildlife such as foxes, bats, raccoons, skunks, cattle, wild dogs and feral cats.

** A wild animal should never be approached — we also see rabies in North Texas which is deadly to people and can be carried by any mammal.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

The real «monster of depravity» is this: every year that TNR caretakers are allowed to subsidize high densities of impractical cats by feeding them and loving them to pieces, billions more wild birds and small mammals are killed by these cats.

Hundreds of scientific studies have documented local numbers of wild birds and mammals killed by cats.

All types of wild land and sea birds, as well as all wild land mammals, can be helped by Project Wildlife.

Heartworm disease is a preventable yet serious condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs, heart, and surrounding blood vessels of dogs, cats, wild canines and felines, other mammal species, and in rare cases, humans.

and transported by FedEx to our hospital in Sausalito, CA was given the thumbs up today by The Marine Mammal Center's vets to go back to the wild.

Despite multiple attempts by marine mammal centers to rehabilitate these young sea lions for release back into the wild, many pups continue to wash ashore and are deemed non-releasable by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries).

Feeding, attempting to feed, and harassment of marine mammals in the wild by anyone is prohibited by regulations enacted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

That was within the aim of HuA 2004, since the majority of Parliament had judged that the hunting of wild mammals was morally objectionable and moral ends would be served by bringing the practice to an end.