Recent studies suggest that the virus was introduced to humans in at least two separate zoonotic transmission events at the Huanan market in Wuhan around November 2019. Raccoon dogs and red foxes were observed to be present at the market during the crucial period in late 2019 and many of these animals originated from fur farms in a region with extensive cave complexes housing Rhinolophus bats, …
In the context of one day in the Altiplano, introduces the animals and plants that live in this mountainous terrain, describing their characteristics, behavior, and daily activities.
Anthrax has not been diagnosed in SA for many years, but the risk of an outbreak is heightened with occasional detections in NSW and Victoria as well as isolated outbreaks in WA and Queensland. Anthrax is caused by a bacterium that affects many species including cattle, sheep, goats and humans. The bacterium produces spores when exposed to air that persist in soil for many years. The disease is…
Crowbar in hand, Isaac Van Amburgh became famous for confrontinglions in the confined space of a cage in a new type of public enter-tainment. His look alone was believed to subdue lions although inperformance he manhandled them forcefully. Sensationalist handlingacts proliferated and the feat that came to typify 19th-century travellingmenageries involved tamers, including lion queen Ellen Chapm…
This e-book contains how animal's communication through signal, vision, audition acuity and many more.
The Red List Index shows trends in overall extinction risk for species, and is used by governments and others to track their progress towards targets for reducing biodiversity loss. This is only made possible by regular updates of species assessments on the IUCN Red List and data and graphs on different Red List Indices are available on the IUCN Red List website. The IUCN Red List helped shape …
Animal research is part of a complex web of relations made up of humans and animals, practices inside and outside the laboratory, formal laws and professional norms, and social imaginaries of the past and future of medicine. Researching Animal Research sets out an innovative approach for understanding and intervening in the social practices that constitute animal research. It proposes the idea …
This e-book contains anatomy and physiology of an animal.
This patent landscape report provides an overview of international patent activity for animal genetic resources, in particular those relating to food and agriculture. The empirical analysis of patent activity for animal genetic resources for food and agriculture has received remarkably little attention in the scientific literature. Indeed, in conducting the present research we found no example …