Previous works on albinism form of Asinara white donkeys (Equus asinus) identified the mutation leading to the peculiar phenotype spread to all specimens of the breed. Inbreeding naturally occurred under geographic isolation, on Asinara Island, in the Mediterranean Sea. Albino individuals can be more susceptible to develop health problems when exposed to natural sun radiation. Alternative metab...

625 IRAQ, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Mozambique, Indonesia – all countries that have suffered or are currently suffering from the effects of conflict or natural disaster, and all countries where veterinary expertise has been required. While media images from such areas primarily focus on the human cost, livestock and draught animals are often an essential part of the lives of the peo...

If you are a vet, you will often need to know the weight of an animal, for example to prescribe the right amount of a drug. If your animal is a rabbit, this is not a problem. But if your animal is large, say a donkey, and if you are out in the field, then you will not be able to weigh the animal directly. However, if you have a tape measure then you can weigh the animal indirectly, if you have ...

We propose a straightforward analysis of counterfactual donkey sentences, by combining the Lewis/Stalnaker analysis of counterfactuals with standard dynamic semantics. The main idea is to define a similarity relation between world-assignment pairs such that two such pairs are unconnected if their assignments differ. We show that with the help of this ordering relation we can also account for a ...

Background: Equids, especially zebras and donkeys, and cattle (bovids) share habitats in many savanna ecosystems in Africa. The issue of competition for food between these ungulate guilds remains largely unresolved. Resolving it will provide insights into how wild zebra are likely to interact with cattle on shared landscapes and suggest best practices for cattle owners who must decide whether t...

BACKGROUND Palmar region of metacarpus in the horses and donkeys is an important region because of its tendons and ligaments which contribute to stay apparatus. This study was done on forelimbs of 6 healthy Miniature donkeys to detect the tendons, ligaments and their accessories on the palmar surface of metacarpus in this animal. MATERIALS AND METHODS Based on that magnetic resonance imaging ...

20 In view of gathering baseline information about the prevalence of animal trypanosomosis, 21 the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) funded a cross 22 sectional survey in the Region of the Boucle du Mouhoun which constitutes the Northern 23 limit of the tsetse distribution in Burkina. This cross sectional study was carried out in 53 24 villages located in the ...

Sentinel herds and samples submitted by private equine practitioners were used to determine the sero-prevalence and sero-incidence of African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and equine encephalosis virus (EEV) in horse and donkey populations in the Highveld region of Zimbabwe. The sero-prevalence and sero-incidence of antibodies against these viruses were determined using the competitive enzyme-lin...