Rodents principally rats and mice are some of the most bothersome and damaging creatures in the world. Almost every type of food commodity is subjected to rodents attack and losses to cereals are serious problem experienced throughout the sphere. Significantly rodents may affect rice crop production and rodenticides are likely to remain the essential management tool for controlling their damage...

BACKGROUND Accidental poisoning with anticoagulant rodenticides is not uncommon in dogs, but few reports of the elimination kinetics and half-lives in this species have been published. Our objectives were to develop and validate a new method for the quantification of anticoagulant rodenticides in canine blood and faeces using reversed phase ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem ma...

A male common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) was found dead in a field April 2019 the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and submitted to Department for Protection Animals Environment cantonal police Zurich. Because is protected species, carcass forwarded Poultry Rabbit Diseases, University forensic examination. On necropsy, profuse internal haemorrhage without causal trauma observed, leading suspicio...

Toxins, especially sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) and brodifacoum, are widely used throughout New Zealand for control of introduced mammals that are considered pests. This level of toxin use (not necessarily with these toxins) is unlikely to decline for at least 5–10 years. Ecological consequences derive both from mammal population reduction or eradication, and from using toxins as the control...