BACKGROUND Oral vaccination of the small Indian mongoose against rabies has been suggested as a potential tool to eliminate mongoose-mediated rabies on several Caribbean islands. A recently developed oral rabies virus vaccine strain, SPBN GASGAS, has already been shown to be efficacious in this reservoir species. Since, all available oral rabies vaccines are based on replication-competent virus...

Abstract ContextSome prey species can shift their daily activity patterns to reduce the risk of encountering predators, and, in turn, predators develop strategies increase chances meeting prey. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a key Iberian Mediterranean ecosystems. It main for many vertebrate predators. also game and often target management measures such as translocations. AimsTo tes...

Complex agroforestry systems can host similar biodiversity levels to adjacent continuous forests and offer important ecosystem services for wildlife. Species inhabiting forests, as well species that prefer systems, benefit from this habitat matrix. It is necessary, however, understand the species-specific adaptability such a complex Indonesia hotspot hosts many endemic are threatened with extin...

Nest predation is an important practical challenge for the conservation of egglaying reptiles, with the potential to reduce hatchling recruitment and slow the recovery of threatened populations. Accurately forecasting where and when predation will occur has the potential to optimize predation management. Survival analysis, a set of statistical techniques recently popularized in studies of avian...

Predation is increasingly pointed out as one of the factors contributing to population declines of groundnesting farmland birds, though it remains poorly understood how ongoing transformations of agricultural landscapes affect predator assemblages. This study addressed this issue, estimating the contribution of landscape composition and configuration to spatial variation in species richness and...

trichinellosis is both of veterinary and medical importance in countries where pig breeding and pork consumption exists. in iran, people are forbidden to consume pork because of the religious regulations. therefore, there have not been any human cases over the past decades except a doubtful case based on serological test. although there are some sylvatic trichinellosis in wild life in different...