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University of Utah researchers captured footage of an American badger burying an entire cow. The American badger is known to store and bury food it finds, but nothing of this size. The badger ...
Woodruffe and her coauthors affixed GPS collars to both cattle and badgers around 20 farms in Cornwall, tracking the animals for several months. They found that badgers tended to stay about 50 meters ...
Queen guitarist Sir Brian May believes that improving farm hygiene could help to provide a solution to the problem of bovine tuberculosis. May, 77, has been campaigning against badger culling to ...
While the overall prevalence in badgers is relatively low, the findings suggest that badger populations may contribute to the spread of TB to cattle, especially in regions where the disease is ...
One paper, published in Nature, provides strong evidence that culling badgers -- which can carry the agent that causes bovine TB -- actually exacerbates the problem by raising the incidence of TB in ...
New research has revealed the presence of Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis, in badgers found dead along the southern edge ...