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Local Cattle and Badger Populations Affect the Risk of Confirmed Tuberculosis...
Background The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching in 1998 the Randomised Badger Culling... -
Evaluation of remote delivery of Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) technol...
Methods to individually mark and identify free-ranging wildlife without trapping and handling would be useful for a variety of research and management purposes. The use of... -
Causes of ring-related leg injuries in birds - evidence and recommendations f...
One of the main techniques for recognizing individuals in avian field research is marking birds with plastic and metal leg rings. However, in some species individuals may react... -
International trade of CITES listed bird species in China.
Commercial trade of wild birds may devastate wild bird populations. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) controls the trade of... -
‘More than a feeling’: An empirical investigation of hedonistic accounts of a...
Many scientists studying animal welfare appear to hold a hedonistic concept of welfare -whereby welfare is ultimately reducible to an animal’s subjective experience. The... -
Pain in Laboratory Animals: The Ethical and Regulatory Imperatives
The paradoxical goal of much of animal-based biomedical research is to model severe human injuries and illnesses without causing severe pain or distress to the animals. Current... -
An inter-laboratory validation of a real time PCR assay to measure host excre...
Advances in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife hosts may benefit the development of sustainable approaches to the management of bovine tuberculosis in... -
Need and Seek for Dietary Micronutrients: Endogenous Regulation, External Sig...
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Hand-Rearing Reduces Fear of Humans in European Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris
Pending changes in European legislation ban the use of wild-caught animals in research. This change is partly justified on the assumption that captive-breeding (or hand-rearing)... -
An economic evaluation of preclinical testing strategies compared to the comp...
Cost-benefit is rarely combined with nonlinear dynamic models when evaluating control options for infectious diseases. The current strategy for scrapie in Great Britain requires... -
Moving Cages Further Offshore: Effects on Southern Bluefin Tuna, T. maccoyii,...
The effects of offshore aquaculture on SBT health (particularly parasitic infections and haematology) and performance were the main aim of this study. Two cohorts of ranched... -
Taxonomic Chauvinism Revisited: Insight from Parental Care Research
: Parental care (any non-genetic contribution by a parent that appears likely to increase the fitness of its offspring) is a widespread trait exhibited by a broad range of... -
Multispectral Imaging for Determination of Astaxanthin Concentration in Salmo...
Multispectral imaging has been evaluated for characterization of the concentration of a specific cartenoid pigment; astaxanthin. 59 fillets of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus... -
Decapitation in rats: Latency to unconsciousness and the 'wave of death'
The question whether decapitation is a humane method of euthanasia in awake animals is being debated. To gather arguments in this debate, obsolete rats were decapitated while... -
Using hormones to manage dairy cow fertility: the clinical and ethical belief...
In the face of a steady decline in dairy cow fertility over several decades, using hormones to assist reproduction has become common. In the European Union, hormones are... -
Cat Dilemma: Too Protected To Escape Trophy Hunting?
Trophy hunting is one of the most controversial issues in the field of biodiversity conservation. In particular, proponents and opponents debate fiercely over whether it poses a... -
Migratory Pathways and Connectivity in Asian Houbara Bustards: Evidence from ...
Information on migratory pathways and connectivity is essential to understanding population dynamics and structure of migrant species. Our manuscript uses a unique dataset, the... -
Behavioral responses associated with a human-mediated predator shelter.
Human activities in protected areas can affect wildlife populations in a similar manner to predation risk, causing increases in movement and vigilance, shifts in habitat use and... -
Towards Risk-Based Test Protocols: Estimating the Contribution of Intensive T...
Eradicating disease from livestock populations involves the balancing act of removing sufficient numbers of diseased animals without removing too many healthy individuals in the... -
Iterative Development of Visual Control Systems in a Research Vivarium
The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that reintroduction of Continuous Performance Improvement (CPI) methodology, a lean approach to management at Seattle...
