Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

MINERAL WELLS — West Virginia University Extension will offer a small ruminant workshop for sheep and goat producers from 6-8 p.m. April 7 at the Wood County 4-H Campgrounds at 2203 Butcher Bend Road in Mineral Wells. The Small Ruminant Workshop is the first of a three-part series of Mid-Ohio Valley Agriculture Field Days funded through a Farm Service Agency USDA grant. The series will include workshops on Backyard Poultry and Specialty Crops. Programs are in partnership with WVU Extension in Wood, Roane, Ritchie, Calhoun and Wirt counties. The main speaker is Dr. Stephanie Ringler with USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection. Ringler will teach about parasite control in sheep and goats, in addition to discussing the Scrapie Eradication Program. She is an expert in parasite resistance to dewormers and is a designated scrapie epidemiologist for USDA. She is also certified to teach FAMACHA certification classes through the Small Ruminant Consortium. Ed Smolder, repre...

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DENVER — Denver7's Discover Colorado | Through Your Photos Facebook page is an outlet for tens of thousands of people to enjoy the beauty of Colorado. Anyone familiar with the page has likely seen the photos Scott Wilson has captured. Some of his most captivating shots are of the wild horses in Colorado's Sand Wash Basin. One that he says people have connected most with, titled "Anger Management," recently took the top nature prize out of 170,000 entries in the 2022 World Photography Awards. WilsonAxpe Photography "Anger Management," a shot Scott Wilson captured in July 2021, won the top natural world and wildlife prize in the 2022 World Photography Awards. "These are really, really hearty animals that can kind of cope with all these tough environments thrown at them. And this is the middle of summer — it's 100 degrees. There's a growing crowd around the waterhole, and he's poundi...

Shrub may save the sperm whale – Science News , March 25, 1972 The sperm whale is an endangered species. A major reason is that the whale oil is heat-resistant and chemically and physically stable. This makes it useful for lubricating delicate machinery. The only substitute is expensive carnauba wax from the leaves of palm trees that grow only in Brazil … [but] wax from the seeds of the jojoba, an evergreen desert shrub, is nearly as good. Update After sperm whale oil was banned in the early 1970s, the United States sought to replenish its reserves with eco-friendly oil from jojoba seeds ( SN: 5/17/75, p. 335 ). Jojoba oil's chemical structure is nearly identical to that of sperm whale oil, and the shrub is native to some North American desert ecosystems, making the plant an appealing replacement. Today, jojoba shrubs are cultivated around the world on almost every continent. Jojoba oil is used in hundreds of products, including cosmetics, ...

While we're on the subject of genetic modification of animals, I present to you the adorable, squeal-worthy, seemingly impossible micro mini cow. Tiny cattle, one rancher in particular has realized, make great pets. In fact, he says that they very much resemble dogs in temperament. They love treats, being outside, and they even run around and love attention. So what the heck is up with the micro mini cow? How did it get so mini? And why on earth did someone decide to breed such a tiny beast? Let's find out. You'll say "MOO" For These Adorable Micro Mini Cows Image: @the.mabeys on Instagram Micro mini cows are exactly what their name suggests: really, really small cows. A regular cow (depending on the breed) can measure anywhere from 54 to 60 inches in height. Micro mini cows, however, pretty much cap out at around 40 inches. There are very few micro-cattle breeders in the world. One of them, Dustin Pillard, has been breeding them on a farm i...

Motion sensor wildlife cameras have captured the resurgence of rare and endangered native animal species visiting SA Water's Middle River Reservoir Reserve on Kangaroo Island, as the region continues to recover from the 2020 bushfires. Surveys were undertaken by Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife as part of a long-term bushfire recovery monitoring program, with cameras strategically set across the reservoir reserve to help better understand threatened fauna taking refuge within the recovering bushland and to guide feral cat control. Over a six month period, the group recorded species such as the Endangered Heath Goanna, Endangered KI Short-beaked Echidna and the rare Painted Buttonquail. Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife program manager Heidi Groffen said this is an encouraging result, as the natural vegetation continues to rebound. "We have been monitoring three sites since March 2020, with a number of other threatened species detected on camera, like the Bassian thrush an...

Cats, like all other domesticated animals, are susceptible to the unpleasant fungal infection of the skin, hair and nails known as ringworm. However, there are common misconceptions about the condition, as the rash is not triggered by a worm, and the infected areas are not always ring-shaped, leaving some cat owners a little confused. Read on to learn more about how to treat ringworm in cats. What Is Ringworm? Ginger cat relaxing on couch in living room. Cats, like all other domesticated animals, are susceptible to the unpleasant fungal infection of the skin, hair and nails known as ringworm Maryviolet/Getty Images Teresa Keiger, Creative Director of The Cat Fanciers' Association, tells Newsweek ringworm is a common fungus and found on both humans and animals. She says: "In humans, it's usually found as athlete's foot, jock itch, or ringworm. Like any fungus, ringworm spreads by releasing spores, making it easily transmissible to other cats and to humans....

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The thirty-first meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 28 February 2022 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV). Technical updates were received about the situation in the following State Parties: Afghanistan, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Wild poliovirus The committee was encouraged that WPV1 transmission has fallen to very low levels, with no new case in Pakistan since January 2021 and only four in Afghanistan in 2021 and one in 2022. Environmental surveillance continues to detect low levels of WPV1 transmission in Pakistan with 7.6% of samples testing positive in 2021 compared to 56...

Former Cumberland County Sheriff Earl Ray Butler, affectionately known as "Moose," died Sunday morning, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office. He was 85 years old. Butler served as sheriff of Cumberland County for 22 years from 1994 to 2016, when he retired. He was one of the longest-serving, and most widely known, public officials in the county.  A native of Robeson County, he was raised in Fayetteville's Massey Hill area. Last August, Butler was honored with the renaming of a street outside of his home church, Massey Hill Baptist, now known as Moose Butler Lane. He graduated from Massey Hill High School in 1956 where he was a star football player. In 1955, Butler was named to the National High School All-American Football Team. His teammates were the ones to give him the nickname "Moose," according to the Sheriff's Office. Butler's talents led him to play football at UNC-Chapel Hill, where ...

Barely 10 miles from Ecuador's capital city Quito, the wrinkled slopes of the Andes shelter one of the most biologically diverse and threatened spots in the tropics. At the foot of the Andes here lies a valley. The river running through it, called the Guayllabamba, is at the heart of a remarkable tale of two newly identified species of glass frogs. One of them, Hyalinobatrachium mashpi , lives on the southern side of the river, in the Mashpi and Tayra Reserves, two private, adjacent rainforest oases that together encompass 6,200 acres. The other frog species, Hyalinobatrachium nouns , dwells in the northern flank of the valley in the Toisan Range, a steep complex of mountains isolated from the main Andes belt, an island floating above a green sea . Both creatures exist at roughly the same altitude, in similar humidity and temperature conditions. They both measure between 1.9 and 2.1 centimeters from snout to vent (a standard length measure of amphibians). Their bodies are nearly id...

A juvenile red-tailed hawk in the care of the Raptor Center of Southeast Michigan, a wildlife rehabilitation nonprofit based in Washtenaw County, Mich. Provided by Alysha Mae Albrecht WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - When a red-tailed hawk in the care of wildlife rehabilitators escaped last Friday in Ypsilanti Township, its handler, Alysha Mae Albrecht, immediately thought of a way to get more eyes on the lookout for it. Since then, a Facebook post with a photo of the juvenile raptor — classified as non-releasable because of a talon injury that makes it too difficult for him to hunt — was shared more than 470 times. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

SARASOTA COUNTY – State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota has posted additional signs on its Venice campus warning about alligators in Lake Jervey, following a March 9 incident in which a 50-pound pit bull was attacked and likely eaten by an alligator.  A woman visiting the campus brought her unleashed dog to the college. It got close to the freshwater preserve dubbed Lake Jervey, in honor of philanthropist Bill Jervey Jr., and was captured by the alligator, which took it underwater. Two alligators were removed from Lake Jervey Two days later, alligator trappers contracted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission through its Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program caught and removed two alligators from the water body, FWC spokesman Adam Brown said via email. One alligator was 6-foot, 9 inches in length and the other was 7-foot-10. A necropsy was not performed, so it is unknown whether either alligator ate the dog. Brown noted that necropsies are typical...

Biodiversity makes the world go round—from tiny freshwater creatures to giant trees, the living things on planet earth are what makes it flourish. But in recent years, humans haven't been all too good at preserving biodiversity—research has shown that nature is declining in unprecedented ways. As of 2019, one in four species on earth are at risk of extinction, and rates of extinction now compared to the times before human activity are about a thousand times higher (with higher rates predicted in the future). Humans are directly impacted by biodiversity loss when it comes to things like water availability and agriculture, which can become stressed as species die out or suffer. This isn't only devastating purely due to loss of the nature that makes our world special—it's also a climate change crisis. Not only does climate change power biodiversity loss, but the weakening of natural ecosystems makes it harder to combat growing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, as ...