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Wild animals can experience injury from a variety of causes such as predation; intraspecific competition; accidents, which can cause fractures, crushing injuries, eye injuries and wing tears; self-amputation; molting, a common source of injury for arthropods; extreme weather conditions, such as storms, extreme heat or cold weather; and natural disasters.
Some wild animal species may get used to human presence, causing property damage or risking the transfer of diseases to humans or pets. Many wildlife species coexist with humans very successfully, such as commensal rodents which have become more or less dependent on humans. Deer-damaged tomato plant has been stripped of developing fruit
Wild animals, domestic animals and humans share a large and increasing number of infectious diseases, known as zoonoses. [28] The continued globalization of society, human population growth, and associated landscape change further increase the interactions between humans and other animals, thereby facilitating additional infectious disease ...
Wild hogs are extremely smart, making them difficult to catch. Beginning on page 24, the “Managing Wild Pigs: A Technical Guide” lays out the different kinds of traps to use and how best to go ...
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.
Many annual plants, or plants grown in frost free areas, can suffer from damage when the air temperature drops below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). Tropical plants may begin to experience cold damage when the temperature is 42 to 48 °F (5 to 9 °C), symptoms include wilting of the top of the stems and/or leaves, and blackening or ...
The ingestion of plants present in the wild can cause alopecia if ingested in too large a quantity. [10] For example, the presence of mimosine , an amino acid in Leucaena leucocephala plants , has led to alopecia in ring-tailed lemurs ( Lemur catta ) that consume this plant in Madagascar.
Cultivated plants do not spread the disease in the same capacity. Human infection is rare, even if the infection rate is high among animals. Especially high rates of human infection have been found in Bolivia, Peru, and Egypt, and this may be due to consumption of certain foods. [4]