Social licence to cull: Examining scepticism toward lethal wildlife removal in cities
The public may sometimes resist orders to cull wildlife, even when these pose a biosecurity threat. Managers and researchers desire to know why this is so.
Erica vonEssen, David Redmalm
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Some harmonic functions for killed Markov branching processes with immigration and culling
For a continuous-time Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson process, $X$, with immigration and culling, $0$ as an absorbing state, call $X^q$ the process that results from killing $X$ at rate $q\in (0,\infty)$, followed by stopping it on extinction or explosion. Then
Vidmar, Matija
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Effects of culling on badger abundance : implications for tuberculosis control [PDF]
Culling is often considered as a tool for controlling wildlife diseases that can also infect people or livestock. Culling European badgers Meles meles can cause both positive and negative effects on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle ...
Ballantyne E.E. +12 more
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Age and lactation specific disposal pattern in Sahiwal cattle and influence of various genetic and non-genetic factors [PDF]
Premature disposal of female calves before reaching milch herd and undesirable disposal of lactating cows are the major constraints in achieving larger herd size.
A. Upadhyay +7 more
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus is one of the most virulent and infectious pathogens of poultry. As a response to HPAI epidemics, veterinary authorities implement preemptive depopulation as a controlling strategy.
Dae-Sung Yoo +5 more
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of calving-related disorders/clinical diseases (DIS) and cytological endometritis (CYTO) on the reproductive performance and culling of dairy cows.
Merle Valdmann +2 more
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Vaccination against Foot-and-mouth disease : do initial conditions affect its benefit? [PDF]
When facing incursion of a major livestock infectious disease, the decision to implement a vaccination programme is made at the national level. To make this decision, governments must consider whether the benefits of vaccination are sufficient to ...
A Bouma +38 more
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EFFECT OF DRY PERIOD LENGTH OF FIRST-CALF HEIFERS AND OLDER COWS ON THEIR PERFORMANCE IN THE NEXT PRODUCTION CYCLE [PDF]
Analysis was made of the effect of dry period length in first-calf heifers and older cows from the active population of cows in the Pomerania and Kujavia regions on their performance in the next production cycle. The GLM, FREQ and CORR PEARSON procedures
Anna SAWA +2 more
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Analysis of culling reasons during the breeding cycle and lifetime performance: The strategy to remove crossbred Landrace and Large White sows under tropical climate [PDF]
Background and Aim: Sow culling is an important practice in commercial swine production because it is directly associated with the economic efficiency of the breeding herd.
Ratchadaporn Boripun +4 more
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Bovine tuberculosis is endemic in cattle herds in Great Britain, with a substantial economic impact. A reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis within the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) population is thought to have hindered disease control. Cattle herd incidents,
Katerina Karolemeas +7 more
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