Elephas Meridionalis in Dorset

Cranio-facial Dysostosis in a Dorset Family.

Crouzon (1912), whose name has been given to the combination of developmental anomalies which he described as hereditary cranio-facial dysostosis, presented his first two cases to the Societe Medicale des H6pitals de Paris. The patients, a mother aged 29 years and her son aged 21 years, had a malformation of the cranial vault consisting of protrusion in the region of the bregma, widening transv...

Congenital hypotrichosis in Poll Dorset sheep.

Partial or complete absence of hair has been reported as a congenital defect in all domestic animal species eager and Scott 1985), but thereappear tobefew reports of theconditioninsheep (Lofstedt 1983). This paper reports congenital hypotrichosis and follicular dysplasia in sheep from a Poll Dorset stud flock. In October 1989.2 of about 200 weaners were presented with bald faces, ears and lower...

Energetics of South Island Kaka (nestor Meridionalis Meridionalis) Feeding on the Larvae of Kanuka Longhorn Beetles (ochrocydus Huttoni)

Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) studied in Big Bush State Forest spent 35% of their feeding time digging out Ochrocydus huttoni larvae from live mountain beech trunks (Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides). Larvae of O. huttoni had a high energy value compared to that of other insects. The assimilation efficiency for energy of two captive kaka was 91 j: 3% when fed a diet of O. hut/o...

Summation by Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)

Recent empirical evidence for complex cognition in elephants suggests that greater attention to comparative studies between non-human primates and other animals is warranted. We have previously shown that elephants possess the ability to judge the difference between two discrete quantities, and unlike other animals, their choice does not appear to be affected by distance or overall quantity. In...

Agricultural accidents in Dorset--Review of a pilot study.