Acute pulmonary edema, splenomegaly, and ascites were observed in a disease outbreak in adult white and pearl guinea fowl. The clinical history and gross and microscopic lesions resembled those described for marble spleen disease of pheasants and avian adenovirus group II splenomegaly of chickens. A small number of intranuclear inclusion bodies were found in liver, spleen, and lung sections of ...

Studies with captive fowl have revealed that they possess greater cognitive capacities than previously thought. We now know that fowl have sophisticated cognitive and communicative skills, which had hitherto been associated only with certain primates. Several theories have been advanced to explain the evolution of such complex behavior. Central to these theories is the enlargement of the brain ...

This study was undertaken to describe the growth pattern of the pearl gray Guinea fowl. Using BW data from hatch to 22 wk, 3 nonlinear mathematical functions (Richards, Gompertz, and logistic) were used to estimate growth patterns of the pearl gray guinea fowl. The logistic and Gompertz models are a special case of the Richards model, which has a variable point of inflection defined by the shap...

Visible Diode Laser Enhancement of Exotic DNA Uptake by Fowl SpermEssam A. El-Gendy, Mona M. Abdelaziz, Mohamed Abdelfattah, S. Salama, YhiaM. Badr

The luminance dependence of spatial acuity in domestic fowl was measured directly over stimulus luminances ranging from 0.06 to 57.35 cd m(-2). At the highest luminance, acuity was around 6.5 c deg(-1), in agreement with previous studies in this species. As stimulus luminance decreased, acuity fell with increasing rate to 3.2 c deg(-1) at 0.06 cd m(-2), following the same shape as acuity functi...

conclusions safe water supply and adequate sanitation and hygiene are the important routes for the control and prevention of cholera infection. results cholera is a rare disease in industrialized countries; but, is still common in other parts of the world, including the indian subcontinent, sub-saharan africa, and latin and central american countries (like haiti). symptoms begin with a sudden o...

Some of the properties and the amino acid compositions of the histones of calf thymus, calf liver, fowl erythrocytes, and of a protamine-like material isolated from rooster sperm were described. The amino acid compositions of the histones were rather similar except that no methionine was found in the fowl erythrocyte histone. In the fowl, histones are found in the somatic chromosomes and protam...

After introducing the jeopardy card game Fowl Play, we present equations for optimal two-player play, describe their solution with a variant of value iteration, and visualize the optimal play policy. Next, we discuss the approximation of optimal play and note that neural network learning can achieve a win rate within 1% of optimal play yet with a 5-orders-of-magnitude reduction in memory requir...