A major cause of taphonomic loss is bone destruction by scavengers. Having monitored nine sheep bone scatters and two modern sheep carcasses near a farmstead and in a nearby forest clearing, it was hypothesized that the proximity of the settlement influenced multiple non-human bone modificator activities. This observation was tested by an experiment in which the rate of transport was measured i...

The material comes from the Late Iron Age settlement of Dobrovăț-La Livadă in Iași County and represents food waste presenting butchering, burning, disarticulation marks. Considering total number specifically identified mammals, 90.36% them belong to domestic mammals rest 9.64% belongs only wild – Sus scrofa Cervus elaphus. Estimating slaughter ages provided little data, both due high degree bo...

The techniques of agriculture and animal husbandry at Tell Humeida, a Middle Uruk Period (Late Chalcolithic) site on the middle Syrian Euphrates, were studied using stable isotopes bone collagen domestic wild mammals from cereal ruderal plant seeds. Two archaeological campaigns in 2009 2011 yielded small collection bones, most which taxonomically indeterminable. work had to be interrupted due p...

A commercially available (cELISA) kit for diagnosing Anaplasma marginale infection in cattle was validated for diagnosing A ovis infection in sheep using the bovine serum controls as supplied by the manufacturer (BcELISA) and sheep serum controls from pathogen-free sheep (OcELISA). True positives were identified using two previously established assays, a nested PCR (nPCR) test and an indirect i...

BACKGROUND Sheep scrapie is caused by multiple prion strains, which have been classified on the basis of their biological characteristics in inbred mice. The heterogeneity of natural scrapie prions in individual sheep and in sheep flocks has not been clearly defined. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In this study, we intravenously injected 2 sheep (Suffolk and Corriedale) with material from a n...

The increasing number of sheep (Ovis aries) in the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) herding area in North Finland and supplementary winter feeding of reindeer in corrals shared with sheep causes potential for crossinfection of gastrointestinal nematodes between reindeer and sheep. The aim of this study was to elucidate this potential. The study included 46 animals, of which 12 reindeer and...

BACKGROUND Piroplasms are kinds of tick-borne parasitic apicomplexan protozoa, which are detrimental to humans and animals in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Up until now, there has been a limited amount of reliable information available about the prevalence of piroplasms infections in wild animals in China. Therefore, we have investigated the infections of Babesia and Theileri...

Infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) caused by Mycoplasma conjunctivae is a highly contagious ocular infection which is common in domestic sheep and goats. In the European Alps, IKC is often observed in Alpine chamois (Rupicapra r. rupicapra) and in Alpine ibex (Capra i. ibex), but the disease has also been described in other wild Caprinae in the Pyrenees and in New Zealand. The infection is c...