Sentences with phrase «wild carnivores»

«I'm sure we were improving the situation and reducing the chance of spillovers in wild carnivores, but we weren't preventing them altogether,» Sillero says.

Population indices for wild carnivores: a critical study in sand ‐ dune habitat, south ‐ western Queensland

Raw meaty bone diets keep wild carnivores» teeth in top condition, and they can do the same for our domesticated carnivores.

In Colombia, WCS published two contributions related to the idenification, verification and management of human - Andean bear conflicts: «Guide for the Landscape Diagnostic of Human - Andean Bear Conflicts,» and the «Manual for the Recognition and Evaluation of Livestock Predation Events by Wild Carnivores.»

Previous attempts to manage the risk of infectious disease to wild carnivore conservation have mostly focused on vaccination of domestic dogs.

Now researchers led by Freya St John and Julia Jones of Bangor University in the UK have used RRT to question ranchers in north - eastern South Africa about killing wild carnivores.

But we think these infections have spilled over from a disease reservoir among domestic dogs, or common wild carnivores like badgers and foxes.»

McAloose and her colleagues are now working on collecting samples from dogs and small wild carnivores in the Russian Far East to get a more complete picture of the various strains of CDV in circulation in the hopes of linking tiger infections to a source, knowledge that would hopefully aid in preventing more infections among tigers.

2) Develop field - friendly rapid diagnostic capabilities — Introduce easy - to - use sample collection kits, linked to field - accessible diagnostic technologies, in order to maximize the health information gathered during rare opportunities to handle live or dead wild carnivores.

4) Create networks that share health data — Foster sharing of health data among experts within and across wild carnivore range countries, to vastly increase our understanding of disease impacts on endangered populations, and enable proactive and reactive responses when and where they are needed most.

5) Explore new vaccine technologies — Longer term, we need to evaluate new ways to vaccinate wild carnivores for distemper, in situations wherein use of an injectable vaccine is not feasible by hand or by dart.

1) Facilitate safe off - label use of existing vaccines — Support collaboration between the zoological community and conservationists in the field to determine the safety as well as efficacy of existing distemper vaccines that could be, at a minimum, administered opportunistically to endangered wild carnivores whenever they are being handled (e.g. during radio - collaring exercises or when being translocated to mitigate human - wildlife conflict).

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

This seems to be due to the presence of abundant, small - bodied wild carnivores that act as an alternative reservoir of infection, and a source of canine distemper for endangered species.

so humans plus wild carnivores = 2 for the fermentation question...

Wild carnivores eat the stomach contents of their plant - eating prey after all.

It occurs in dogs and other wild carnivores.

It's a known fact that wild carnivores who kill and eat their pray.

These include privately owned wild carnivores (including, but not limited to, lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, bears, wolves, wolf hybrids, skunks, raccoons, river otters, coyotes, and foxes), primates, bats, and venomous reptiles.

All of our work — through education, science, and advocacy — strives to create fundamental and systemic changes in the ways wild carnivores are viewed and treated in North America.

Wild carnivores fast naturally» to give their bodies time to digest and rid themselves of bacteria found in their prey.

The importance of such findings resides in the fact that no dog, cat or wild carnivore from these two provinces (Siena and Perugia) has ever been found to carry microfilariae of D. repens, although suitable animal reservoirs shoul exist in sites where human dirofilariasis is repeatedly and not occasionally acquired or imported (Pampiglione and Rivasi, 2000).

Dirofilaria repens is a zoonotic filarial nematode parasite of dogs, cats and wild carnivores transmitted by mosquitoes (Pampiglione et al., 1995).

Wild carnivores remain the most important reservoir of rabies, with species varying depending on location.

In wild carnivores, most of their teeth cleaning occurs that way.

Veterinarian Sara Chapman concludes, «Raw meaty bone diets keep wild carnivores» teeth in top condition, and they can do the same for our domesticated carnivores.

Population indices for wild carnivores: a critical study in sand - dune habitat, south - western Queensland.

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

That's asking a lot of a wild carnivore.»

«The wild carnivores would make short work of livestock,» he says.

The analysis revealed very different evolutionary patterns for bat - related rabies, which is found in bats and some carnivores; versus dog - related rabies, which is responsible for almost all human cases of rabies and is found in both dogs and wild carnivores.

An individual - based stochastic, SIRD (susceptible - infected - recovered / dead) model was used to simulate infection through predation of infected domestic dogs, and / or wild carnivores, and direct tiger - to - tiger transmission.

... except the fermentation / mammalian species point: wild carnivores, and some domestics like cats, eat the gut of their prey — their prey are mostly vegetarian animals; these organs have a large amount of fermented, pre-digested vegetable matter — wild grains, seeds, grasses, root and woody fibers.

This emphasizes the deleterious effect of parasites that every wild carnivore suffers.

It's conclusions are based on advanced genetics that are well beyond my understanding; but they suggest that dogs have evolved over the last 27,000 years (ref) to absorb and utilize plant carbohydrates considerably better than the wild carnivores that preceded them.

The principal hosts today are wild carnivores and bats.

Wild carnivores are never, ever obese and in order to survive, they get plenty of exercise.

According to wildlife biologists, the reproductive and offspring mortality rates of free - roaming cats are similar to wild carnivores.

In wild carnivores, signs of abnormal behaviour and apparent lack of fear, suggestive of rabies, may be the only signs grossly visible.

In wild carnivores, the presenting signs are often neurological and the disease must be differentiated from rabies and other encephalitides.