| the attractiveness of some birds and mammals for mosquitoes in the gambia, west africa. | in separate experiments in a savanna area of the gambia, mosquitoes attacking chickens, pigeons, ducks, goats, a man and a calf were compared in baited traps. anopheles melas and culex thalassius were common at all baits, but an. melas predominated only in the catches from mammals, where it formed 60-75% of the total catch. aedes spp., mainly ae. albocephalus and ae. punctothoracis, and c. tritaeniorhynchus were a significant component in the mammal-baited catches but were poorly represented at ... | 1983 | 6140903 |