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The role of bait manipulation in the delivery of oral rabies vaccine to skunks
19 Mar 2013 | Conference Papers | Contributor(s): Stacie J. Robinson, Susan M. Jojola, Kurt C. VerCauteren
The majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control each year occur in wildlife including skunks, raccoons, bats, foxes, and coyotes. Currently, oral rabies vaccination campaigns …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2034
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Calcium and other ions in blood and skeleton of Nicaraguan fresh-water shark
19 Mar 2013 | Reports | Contributor(s): Marshall R. Urist
The bull shark, Carcharhinus lellcas, employing archaic but effective means of regulating the physical-chemical composition of its body fluids, thrives in tropical fresh-water rivers and lakes. The …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2028
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Estimation of red-winged blackbird mortality from toxic bait application
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): James F. Glahn, Michael L. Avery
Application of slow-acting toxic bait is one method of reducing local populations of depredating blackbirds. Estimating numbers of birds killed in such baiting operations is difficult because …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2024
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Bulletin No. 302 - Nutritional inadequacy of beet molasses rations for swine
19 Mar 2013 | Reports
The feeding of large amounts of beet molasses to young hogs causes a condition that is characterized by a wobbly gait, and that is frequently fatal. Hog raisers have apparently recognized this …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2023
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Pernicious portrayals: the impact of children's attachment to animals of fiction on animals of fact
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Marla V. Anderson, Antonia J. Z. Henderson
This paper argues that the lack of distinction between human and nonhuman animals in the fantastic world of children's literature and film results in distorted representations of intelligence, …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2021
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Ethnic variations in pet attachment among students at an American school of veterinary medicine
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): S. E. Brown
This study explores ethnic variations in animal companion ("pet") attachment among 133 students enrolled in a school of veterinary medicine. The 57 White and 76 African American participants …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2019
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Cat culture, human culture: an ethnographic study of a cat shelter
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): J. M Alger, S. F Alger
This study explores the value of traditional ethnographic methods in sociology for the study of human-animal and animal-animal interactions and culture. Itargues that some measure of human-animal …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2017
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Attitudes toward animals: the effect of priming thoughts of human-animal similarities and mortality salience on the evaluation of companion animals
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): R. Beatson, S. Loughnan, M. Halloran
Human attitudes toward nonhuman animals are complex and quite contradictory. They can range between extremely negative (animal cruelty) to positive (treating companion animals like human surrogates). …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2015
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Support for animal rights as a function of belief in evolution, religious fundamentalism, and religious denomination
19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): J. L. DeLeeuw, L. W Galen, C. Aebersold, V. Stanton
The present study examined the relationship among religious denomination, fundamentalism, belief about human origins, gender, and support for animal rights. Eighty-two college undergraduates filled …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2013
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Pindone for rabbit control: efficacy, residues and cost
18 Mar 2013 | Conference Proceedings | Contributor(s): Peter C. Nelson, Graham J. Hickling
Toxins are a major component of rabbit control campaigns in New Zealand, with sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) being the primary toxin in use since the 1950s. However, landowners can use 1080 only …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2007
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School Therapy Dogs - Education Professionals Working with Therapy Dogs to Help Kids
08 Mar 2013 | Websites | Contributor(s): Jennifer VonLintel
Working with a therapy dog in a school setting provides a unique set of opportunities and challenges. This website provides information regarding one school counselor's development of elementary …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2006
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Individual differences and pet ownership status: distinguishing among different types of pet owners and non-owners
07 Mar 2013 | Theses | Contributor(s): Shannon M. Merrill
Research examining potential differences between pet owners and non-owners is prevalent in the scientific literature, but findings have often been inconsistent. Although some researchers have …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2003
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Michigan bovine tuberculosis eradication project: 2004 activities report and conference proceedings
07 Mar 2013 | Conference Proceedings
On June 9 and 10, 2004, the State of Michigan and U.S. Department of Agriculture hosted the eighth annual Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) Conference, with guest speakers from Georgia, Colorado, Iowa, New …
http://habricentral.org/resources/2000
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Twenty-five year history of the Kansas coyote damage control program
07 Mar 2013 | Conference Proceedings | Contributor(s): F. Robert Henderson
In the 1968 legislative session, an appropriate was made to Kansas State University to hire a predator and rodent control specialist. I was hired for this position on July 1, 1968. During August, …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1997
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Deer guards and bump gates for excluding white-tailed deer from fenced resources
07 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Kurt C. VerCauteren, Nathan W. Seward, Michael J. Lavelle, Justin W. Fischer, Gregaory E. Phillips
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) causing damage is a reoccurring theme in the realm of wildlife damage management, especially regarding human safety, disease transmission, and agricultural …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1991
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Population monitoring in support of a rabies vaccination program for skunks in Arizona
07 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Richard M. Engeman, Kevin L. Christensen, Michael J. Pipas, David L. Bergman
Three population monitoring methods were evaluated in support of a trap/vaccinate/release program for controlling a bat variant of rabies virus in skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in Flagstaff, Arizona …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1988
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Parasitic organisms in the blood of arvicoline rodents in Alaska
07 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Francis H. Fay, Robert L. Rausch
A Grahamella-like organism (Schizomycetes: Bartonellaceae) was found in erythrocytes of laboratory-reared northern voles, Microtus oeconomus Pallas, which had been inoculated intraperitoneally with a …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1985
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Mapping and investigation of novel candidate genes for fatness, growth, and feed intake in the pig
07 Mar 2013 | Reports | Contributor(s): K. S. Kim, M. Malek, E. Grindflek, S. Marklund, Max F. Rothschild
Five new candidate genes for fatness, growth, and feed intake traits were studied. The genes were chosen based on their presumed biological action for a given trait of interest. A molecular genetics …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1982
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Block and Bridle Annual, 1994
07 Mar 2013 | Pamphlets | Contributor(s): Renee Plueger
Table of Contents: HISTORIAN'S LETTER EMBLEM AND PURPOSE DR. ABERLE'S LETTER lNlTlATES MEMBERS CANDIDS OFFICERS OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE HONOREE OF THE YEAR, 1993 KIDS', DAY ANIMAL SCIENCE …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1979
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Farm & Home Science Vol. 3 No. 3, September 1942
07 Mar 2013 | Pamphlets
Even though chickens are efficient in converting raw farm product into human food, every locality has some poultry flocks with low production from which little or no profit is obtained. This is …
http://habricentral.org/resources/1976
