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Tag Archives: squirrel
The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You could follow my ‘tuberculosis’ tag. Other animals can get bTB too. In Britain, some people think the native badger (Meles meles) is … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, biosecurity, brushtail possum, cattle, data, deer, disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, fox, history, knowledge, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mouse, mustelid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, poison, polecat, politics, research, reservoir, rodent, ruminant, shooting, shrew, squirrel, stoat, tuberculosis, vertebrate, vole, wildlife
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Red squirrel
Originally posted on Ann Novek( Luure)–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors:
argylesock says… this photo is from narhvalur’s garden, not mine. I wish there were red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in my garden too! Ann Novek( Luure)–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors View original post
Red squirrels, grey squirrels and a poxvirus
My fellow blogger nahrvalur tells us that in a forest park in County Down, the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is recovering from a population crash associated with squirrel pox. Since the North American grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) was introduced … Continue reading
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Tagged alien species, America, disease, ecosystem, Europe, forest, grey squirrel, invasive species, mammal, native species, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, red squirrel, rodent, squirrel, squirrel pox, tree, vertebrate, virus, woodland
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