Despite the apparent public health concern about Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in Tanzania, little has been done regarding the zoonotic importance of the disease and raising awareness of the community to prevent the disease. Bovine tuberculosis is a potential zoonotic disease that can infect a variety of hosts, including humans. The presence of multiple hosts including wild animals, inefficient...

Knowledge of mammal migrations is low, and human impacts on migrations high. This jeopardizes efforts to conserve terrestrial migrations. To aid the conservation of these migrations, we synthesized information worldwide, describing 24 large-bodied ungulates that migrate in aggregations. This synthesis includes maps of extinct and extant migrations, numbers of migrants, summaries of ecological d...

BACKGROUND Pastoralists in low-income countries usually live in close proximity to their animals and thus represent an important repository of information about livestock disease. Since wild and domestic animals often mix freely whilst grazing, pastoralists are also able to observe first-hand the diseases that are present in wildlife and as such are key informants in disease outbreaks in sylvat...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005 0003-3472/© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevie license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and detailed data sets are outstripping our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and often highdimensional data sets exhibit nonlinear dependenc...

In long-distance migratory systems, local fluctuations in the predator-prey ratio can exhibit extreme variability within a single year depending upon the seasonal location of migratory species. Such systems offer an opportunity to empirically investigate cyclic population density effects on short-term food web interactions by taking advantage of the large seasonal shifts in migratory prey bioma...

BACKGROUND Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a fatal arthropod-borne zoonotic disease of livestock and humans. Since the identification of RVF in Kenya in the 1930s, repeated epizootics and epidemics coinciding with El Niño events have occurred in several locations in Africa and Saudi Arabia, causing mass deaths of livestock and humans. RVF is of great interest worldwide because of its negative effect...

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Flesh really does crawl. Crowds of cells can surge forward together, form gyrating swirls and waves, segregate into types, and send off meandering tendrils or mobile exploratory clusters. Collective cell motions are crucial for everything from embryo development to wound healing to cancer metastasis. These cell colonies seem to move in concert, almost like flocks of birds, shoals of fish, or he...

M ass migrations of wildebeest, caribou, song birds, sting rays, and monarch butterflies are among the wonders of the natural world (Fig. 1). At a very different scale, the coordinated migration of cells within the body is central to embryological development, immune responses, and wound healing. Although the scale, functions, and mechanisms may differ, these examples share one key feature: the...

An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (I-ELISA) for the detection of specific IgG immunoglobulins against Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) was validated in-house. A total of 3055 sera from sheep (n = 1159), goats (n = 636), cattle (n = 203), African buffalo (n = 928), and other wild ruminants (n = 129), including eland, kudu, and black wildebeest, was used. Sera from domestic ruminants we...