In the natural world, animals must routinely negotiate varied and unpredictable terrain. Yet, we know little about the locomotor strategies used by animals to accomplish this while maintaining dynamic stability. In this paper, we perturb the running of guinea fowl with an unexpected drop in substrate height (DeltaH). The drop is camouflaged to remove any visual cue about the upcoming change in ...

This paper uses qualitative, textual analysis of selected prominent contemporary young adult fantasy stories. These books--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Artemis Fowl, Garth Nix's Lirael--in addition to creating captivating magical worlds, also depict a part our every day world in their use libraries as settings (in case Harry Lirael) computers for information seeking (as seen Fowl). im...

This study was undertaken to determine the effect of moringa leaf meal and season on blood hormonal profile Pearl Guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) in Middle belt Ghana. Thirty-two (32) males one hundred twenty-eight (128) female fowls aged one-day-old were used for study. A 3 x 4 factorial experimental design experiment. Data collected analyzed using General Linear Model (GLM) procedure Statistic...

To determine the effect of midazolam on ketamine-xylazine anesthesia, 20 guinea fowl (Numida meleagris galeata) were randomly divided into 2 groups. Birds in group KX were anesthetized with ketamine (15 mg/kg i.m.) and xylazine (2.5 mg/kg i.m.), whereas the birds anesthetized in group KXM received midazolam (0.3 mg/kg i.m.) in addition to the ketamine and xylazine protocol. The onset of anesthe...

The first description of avian influenza (AI) dates back to 1878 in northern Italy, when Perroncito [Perroncito E. Epizoozia tifoide nei gallinacei. Annali Accad Agri Torino 1878;21:87-126] described a contagious disease of poultry associated with high mortality. The disease, termed "fowl plague", was initially confused with the acute septicemic form of fowl cholera. However, in 1880, soon afte...

A fowl -was bitten in the thigh by a spectacled cobra that had been kept in confinement for some weeks, had bitten before, and was, therefore, not fresh. The fowl was bitten at 3 p. m. At 3-1-50.?Fowl staggering ; fifteen drops of 6trong Condy's solution, furnished by Messrs. Scott, Thompson and Company, was injected with the hypodermic syringe into the fowl's thigh. 3-2*50.?Fell down paralysed...

occurrence of fatal epizootics among fowls have been noticed from ancient times Of the two types of the disease occurring in these animals, one is designated fowl septicaemia and the other fowl "cholera. The organism of fowl cholera has the distinction of being the first to be discovered out of the group of microorganisms which are now known as Pastuerella, among which are included the organism...