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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"badgers"”.
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Food Habits and Energy Utilization of Badgers
… determine food habits and energy utilization of badgers. Digestive tracts were collected in eastern South Dakota from November 1966 to November 1967. A male and a female badger were used for two energy-balance and three digestion trials. Ground squirrels, mice and rabbits were found to be the …
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Badgers (Meles meles) as reservoirs of vector-borne infections in the UK
… regions are not an exception. Whilst Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) are known to host a wide range of pathogens, information on haemoparasites of badgers, their role as reservoirs of vector-borne infections, and whether ticks parasitizing these badgers pose any risk to animal or human health is …
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Understanding the epidemiology of bovine TB and potential routes of infection by elucidation of fine-scale badger behaviour and movement
… is an endemic, zoonotic disease in cattle and badgers, which threatens animal health, farm productivity and commercial earnings within the U.K. and Ireland. Culling of badgers has been suggested as a potentially useful protocol to reduce the incidence of bTB in badgers and thus cattle; however, …
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Badgers as a proxy for environmental exposure to potentially toxic elements and ecosystem level interactions in soils
… Within this thesis, the effects of soil PTEs on badgers have been considered, a novel compositional approach has been tested and verified, the effects of land-use and other environmental factors have also been assessed through a novel technique by deducting isotopic ratios in tissues from ratios …
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Cattle and badger dynamics in relation to the potential transmission of Mycobacterium bovis
… Mycobacterium bovis between and among cattle and badgers represents an area of research which continues to pose many questions in the pursuit to eradicate the disease from cattle herds within the UK and Ireland. Predominant queries remain over when and where both species become infected, how …
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An Investigation of patterns of mammalian scavenging in relation to vertebrate skeletal remains in a Northwestern European context: forensic applications.
… and patterns in comparison to foxes and badgers. Likewise, knowledge of the characteristics of the effects on bone surfaces of fox and badger scavenging is lacking, more so for the latter scavenger. The overall aim of this thesis is to aid forensic investigations by filling the gaps in …
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Anthropogenic effects on site use and temporal patterns of terrestrial mammals in Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
… carnivores, leopards (Panthera pardus) and honey badgers (Mellivora capensis) were crepuscular, and the remaining species were nocturnal. I found evidence that carnivores overlapped less when they were more similar in body size to other carnivores (average Δ=0.67-0.71) compared to species more …
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Ecology and conservation of Formosan clouded leopard, its prey, and other sympatric carnivores in southern Taiwan
… low-mid altitude consisting of Formosan ferret badgers (Melogale moschata subaurantiaca), gem-faced palm civets (Paguma larvata taivana), lesser oriental civets (Viverricula indica taivana), crab-eating mongooses (Herpestes urva formosanus), leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis), and …