Ví dụ về elk

• Two natural cycles involve the wolf and wild reindeer and the wolf and elk (moose), respectively.

• On these sites isolated human bones, as well as complete human skeletons and complete animal carcasses, usually elk or aurochs, were deposited.

• It was an elk, a coyote, a lynx and a human.

• There were big populations of larger mammals such as elk, deer, bears, wolves and wild boar.

• Two natural cycles involve the wolf and 2 species of deer, the reindeer and the elk (moose), respectively.

• Up to 34 metacestodes occurred in the lungs of individual animals (suggesting a cumulative effect not recorded in wild reindeer, but typical in elk).

• The metacestodes evidently become infective when young elk are about 2 years old.

• Of 188 elk/moose included in the survey, 28 (15 %) were infected, with an intensity of only one to 9 cysts.

• Of 12 elk from one region, 7 (58 %) were infected ; of 30 from various regions, the metacestode was present in 25 (83 %).

• The metacestodes apparently do not accumulate with increasing age of the host, as is typical in elk (see below), but perhaps behavioural differences in the two species are involved.

• Tens of thousands of people hunt elk, and the meat they obtain is an important contribution to their households.

• There were three meat courses: one was buffalo, one was elk and one was bear.

• In addition to cattle, these diseases are known to occur naturally in man and in sheep, goats, mule deer, elk and farmed mink.

• I have no dangerous animals, apart from bull elk which can be very dangerous.

• 25 % of elk have to be condemned and in the worst hit areas more or less all roedeer.