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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Domestic Sheep"”.
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Comparison of Wild-Domestic Sheep Interaction Policies in Bighorn Disease Outbreak Locations in the Continental U.S., 1990-2010
… years, disease has significantly limited bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in the western U.S. Interaction with domestic sheep (Ovis aries) has been a primary cause of fatal bighorn disease (typically pneumonia), which has severely reduced or eliminated entire populations. Various wild-domestic …
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Comparison of Wild-Domestic Sheep Interaction Policies in Bighorn Disease Outbreak Locations in the Continental U.S., 1990-2010
… years, disease has significantly limited bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in the western U.S. Interaction with domestic sheep (Ovis aries) has been a primary cause of fatal bighorn disease (typically pneumonia), which has severely reduced or eliminated entire populations. Various wild-domestic …
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Species Identification of the Stylohyoid Bone for North American Artiodactyls
… stylohyoids of 15 hooved mammals: cattle, bison, domestic sheep, bighorn sheep, Dall sheep, mountain goat, domestic goat, elk, caribou, white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose, pronghorn antelope, domestic pig, and horse. Objectives included documenting how to side the stylohyoid (left or right), and …
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Similaridade genotípica de Salmonella enterica isolada de animais silvestres e exóticos em cativeiro em Ohio, EUA
… deer, goral, white and indian rhino, llama, blue sheep, onager, wild dog, oryx, eland, tahr, zebra, rabbit, wolf, domestic sheep, goat, reindeer, ram, banteng, sable antílope, hog, goose, bison, small ruminant, Przewalski's horse and pony). After culture, the isolates were subjected to …
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Studies of herbivory and vegetation change in Karoo shrublands
… objectives were to determine how grazing by domestic livestock brings about vegetation change, why such changes are sometimes irreversible, and whether existing conceptual models of vegetation dynamics adequately explain the impact of domestic livestock on Karoo vegetation. Three interrelated …
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Identifying the beginnings of Sheep Husbandry in Westen China
… of agriculture and civilization. Key suites of domestic crops, animals, and technologies were independently developed at these two centres. Scholars have been interested in seeing whether there was communication between these ‘nuclear centres’ in prehistory, and how they were influenced by each …
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Zooarchaeological analysis of an urban refuse dump in Cape Town's waterside at the turn of the 19th century
… were utilized. This thesis only looks at domestic sheep, although the utilization of other domestic bvestock is also discussed. All faunal patterns are blurred by the possible inclusion of primary, secondary and tertiary butchery on one fauna! specimen. This does not include other cultural …
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A study assessing forage quality and desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) diet in central Nevada using microhistology and molecular analysis
Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) populations in central Nevada have suffered from die-offs although biologists and wildlife managers have struggled to determine the exact cause of these population declines, making population management difficult. An important, often overlooked and …
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Parasite communities and their identification in wild and domestic herbivores in Iceland
… communities in three main Icelandic herbivores, domestic sheep (Ovis aries), wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus), and pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus). In this study parasite community composition overlap of host species was compared to better understand the possible risk of common …
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Health Surveillance of Thinhorn Sheep (Ovis dalli) Herds in British Columbia and Alaska
… about the health status of free ranging thinhorn sheep populations (Ovis dalli), despite their economic, ecological, and cultural significance. Identification of health concerns in related species, bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), as well as concern from local communities, First Nations, hunters, …
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Measuring behaviour, energy expenditure and parasite transmission in the face of climate change: comparisons with a domestic and wild caprid
… 1) the application of biologging tools using a domestic counterpart, African pygmy goats (Capra aegagrus hircus), specifically refining methods used to estimate behaviour and energy expenditure, and 2) measuring the behaviour, physiology and parasites of a mountain ungulate, Alpine ibex, in the …
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Habitat Selection and Resource Use by Bighorn Sheep Following Translocation
… to restore struggling populations of wild sheep, elk, deer, goats, and other wildlife. One of the most effective restoration tools to emerge from this era was translocation of individuals by physically moving them from healthy source populations to formerly occupied habitats. This process …
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Konya Bozdağ Yaban Hayatı Geliştirme Sahası'ndaki Anadolu Yaban Koyunlarında (Ovis gmelinii anatolica) biyokimyasal kan parametreleri
… Mouflon is the most possible ancestor of domestic sheep. Clinical observations for free ranging wild animals are not possible for most of the cases. Therefore clinical biochemistry applications, such as serum analysis, are very useful because they can provide information on the health and …