Fighting parasites with poo
Sheep poo could hold the key to developing the next generatation of antiparasitic treatments that could protect Australian livestock and save the industry millions of dollars a year.
Sheep poo could hold the key to developing the next generatation of antiparasitic treatments that could protect Australian livestock and save the industry millions of dollars a year.
Ecology
May 28, 2020
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A new study by the University of Liverpool has found that sheep grazing does negatively affect the diversity of plant species of upland areas of the British countryside, and it could take up to 60 years for it to recover.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2020
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It's been almost three years since thousands of Australian sheep died during a voyage from Australia to the Middle East. My group's new research provides insight into the heat stress faced by sheep exported in recent years ...
Ecology
May 5, 2020
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Sheep appear to forage and avoid parasites differently depending on how healthy they are, according to new University of Bristol research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study, which used remote GPS sensing ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2020
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Anthropologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have confirmed the existence more than 10,000 years ago of a hunting camp in what is now northeastern Lebanon—one that straddles the period marking the transition from ...
Archaeology
Jan 22, 2020
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Using novel sensing technology, experts from the University of Nottingham have found that lame sheep adjust how they carry out certain actives, such as walking, standing or lying down, rather than simply reducing the amount ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2020
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A new large-scale genetic study has determined that domestic sheep and goats are the source of bronchopneumonia in bighorn sheep and mountain goats in the western United States, according to a research team led by Pauline ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 7, 2020
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Massey researchers are looking into the behaviour of sheep around waterways and how this impacts on water quality across the seasons.
Ecology
Nov 8, 2019
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A harmful parasite that costs the U.K. cattle and sheep industry an estimated £300 million per year may also be an under‐recognised cause of liver disease in horses, a study by the University of Liverpool has found.
Veterinary medicine
Oct 10, 2019
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5000 years before the modern rise of millet as a popular grain, this Chinese crop was spread far and wide by ancient food aficionados, not for their plates but instead for their animals, suggests new research from an international ...
Archaeology
Sep 6, 2019
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