Altertative trophy measuring techniques for African buffalo

Gousiekte in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).

Three African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) that died after capture and translocation from Mutirikwe Recreational Park in southern Zimbabwe showed macroscopic and microscopic lesions of cardiomyopathy compatible with a diagnosis of gousiekte. The buffalo had had access to Pavetta schumanniana, a plant that is known to cause gousiekte. Death was attributed to cardiac failure as a result of previous ...

Trophy Hunting and Sustainability: Temporal Dynamics in Trophy Quality and Harvesting Patterns of Wild Herbivores in a Tropical Semi-Arid Savanna Ecosystem

The selective nature of trophy hunting may cause changes in desirable phenotypic traits in harvested species. A decline in trophy size of preferred species may reduce hunting destination competitiveness thus compromising the sustainability of trophy hunting as a conservation tool. We explored the trophy quality and trends in harvesting patterns (i.e., 2004-2015) of Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer...

Development of Plaque Techniques for Titration and Neutralization Tests with African Horse-Sickness Virus

Techniques for Measuring Brain Deformation

The oldest technique for measuring changes in brain size from MR scans is volumetry. Brain volumetry, at its most basic, involves using a mouse or similar device to draw around structures of interest in the brain, one slice at a time, at all the time points of interest, and count voxels within the boundaries to determine volume change between time-points. The limitations of this approach are fi...

empirical comparison of direct techniques for measuring attitudes toward risk

the purpose of this study was to compare various direct techniques of measuring attitudes toward risk. the equally likely certainty equivalent with a purely hypothetical risky prospect (elce-ph), the equally likely certainty equivalent with a hypothetical but realistic risky prospect (elce-r) and probability of winning demanded (pwd) models were used to elicit the risk attitude of a sample ...