The filthy breeding habits, feeding mechanisms, and indiscriminate travel between filth and food make some groups of synanthropic insects such as nonbiting flies and cockroaches efficient vectors of human enteric protozoan parasites. Twenty-one species of filth flies have been listed by regulatory agencies concerned with sanitation and public health as causative agents of gastrointestinal disea...

Background: Some members of family Calliphoridae are myiasis agents and mechanical vectors of some pathogens. The aim of this study was to measure the biodiversity and synanthropy behaviour of Calliphoridae flies in Abadan, Khuzestan province. Methods:Data were collected based on a monthly schedule during March to December 2014 in urban, semi-urban and rural e...

Recent efforts within geography to deconstruct anthropocentric readings of the urban and explore city as ‘multispecies’ or ‘more-than-human’ face substantial methodological challenges. This paper contributes an empirical case study human-coyote cohabitations in Greater Toronto Area, Canada, using a ‘hybrid’ approach individual animal geographies. It builds on dialogues surrounding animals’ geog...

Macaques are similar to humans both physiologically and behaviorally. In South and Southeast Asia they are also synanthropic, ecologically associated with humans. Synanthropy with humans raises the possibility that macaques come into contact with anthropogenic toxicants, such as lead and mercury, and might be appropriate sentinels for human exposures to certain toxic materials. We measured lead...

Objective To analyse the ecological and social factors involved in infestation of houses by Triatoma dimidiata a rural locality Veracruz, Mexico, where active transmission parasite is occurring. Methods A survey was applied to households obtain sociodemographic data. In parallel, T. insects were collected during one year through community participation. Using PCR, genotyped, their infection sta...