| the geography of conflict between elk and agricultural values in the cypress hills, canada. | complex ecological issues like depredation and its management are determined by multiple factors acting at more than one scale and are interlinked with complex human social and economic behaviour. depredation by wild herbivores can be a major obstacle to agricultural community support for wildlife conservation. for three decades, crop and fence damage, competition with livestock for native rangeland and tame pasture, and depredation of stored feed by elk (cervus elaphus canadensis) have been the ... | 2009 | 18082311 |
| babesia odocoilei infection in a saskatchewan elk (cervus elaphus canadensis) herd. | an 8-year-old female elk (cervus elaphus canadensis) cow, presented for chronic severe weight loss and unthriftiness, was diagnosed with babesia odocoilei infection based on blood smear evaluation, polymerase chain reaction (pcr), and dna sequence analysis. subsequently, velvet antler from a male that died acutely on the same farm was also pcr positive for babesia spp. both animals originated from a game ranch of saskatchewan-bred and -raised animals with no known history of tick exposure, but w ... | 2013 | 23780934 |