Context Livestock depredation is a major medium- and large-carnivore conservation challenge around the globe, causing substantial economic loss to small-scale agricultural communities in Wolaita Highlands, southern Ethiopia, often leading retaliatory killing. In livestock rates are increasing because of conversion wild habitats into grazing lands. Various studies have examined interactions betw...

The high economic costs of human–wildlife conflicts (HWC) hinder long-term conservation successes, especially in developing countries. We investigated HWC by interviewing 498 respondents from 42 villages Nowshera district, Pakistan. According to respondents, six species—the common leopard (Panthera pardus), grey wolf (Canis lupus), golden jackal aureus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), Indian porcupin...

background: despite echinococcus granulosus , there are merely two old reports of e. multilocularis in-fection among iranian canids of moghan plain, the only area known endemic for the species. we detected specific dna markers in fecal samples by pcr (copro-pcr) for differential diagnosis of echinococcus species in living canids. methods: totally 144 fecal samples from domestic dogs, red foxes ...

Red foxes and golden jackals are the two most abundant wild carnivores of Iran which have the ability to adopt a variety of habitats and human proximity. Despite this, very few investigations on their helminth and none on their external parasites infections have been carried out in Iran. Between 2003 and 2004, a total of 79 jackals and 37 foxes were collected from 3 different climatic zones of ...

Toxoplasma gondii as an apicomplexan zoonotic parasite is able to infect humans and almost all other warm-blooded animals. Wild and domestic felids are the main definitive hosts. Also, canids such as dogs and jackals have been introduced as mechanical vectors since T. gondii oocysts can pass their intestinal tract and spread by feces in environment. Toxoplasmosis is a common zoonotic disease in...

two isolates of trichinella were obtained from the jackal, canis aureus: one from the north caspian area, the other from the south-west khuzestan area of iran. the infectivity of the isolates was tested in laboratory animals, in a wild rodent (tatera indica) and in wild pigs. the isolate from khuzestan was of low infectivity to albino rats and it was provisionally identified as trichinella nels...