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Macro view of a dark brown bark beetle on pine bark with several tiny pale mites clinging to its body and beetle galleries in the bark
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Mites That Ride Bark Beetles: Four Species Described in 2000

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Bar chart showing 56 chickens, 36 geese, 13 turkeys, 9 ducks, 4 quail and 3 guineafowl.
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Eastern Europe's native poultry genetic resources in 1996

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Mare standing beside a young foal running through open grassland.
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How maternal investment and play relate to foal condition

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Holstein dairy cows lying in bedded stalls and standing at a feed bunk in a modern freestall barn with open sidewalls
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Overstocking and Dairy Cows: Lessons from a 2012 Review

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Army ant raid on rainforest litter beside a bivouac and ant-following birds
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Army Ants: Social Predation, Nomadism and Tropical Ecology

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Diagram showing day length feeding into the avian brain, pituitary gland and reproductive organs.
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How hormones time seasonal reproduction in temperate-zone birds

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Editorial illustration of three domestic chickens exploring objects inside a fenced enclosure.
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Chicken cognition: learning, memory, social behaviour, navigation

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Black-and-white dairy cows grazing a green pasture with clover in the foreground, hedgerows and willow trees behind under a grey sky
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Teart Pastures in Somerset: Molybdenum and Cattle Scouring

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Editorial illustration comparing a barred zoo enclosure with a landscaped habitat exhibit.
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American zoos: how cages gave way to habitat design

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Close-up of two brown and cream land snails with spiral shells on moist soil and green foliage, with visible holes in nearby leaves.
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Florida Camaenid Snails: Introduced Species and Plant Damage

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Editorial illustration of cattle together on pasture in a farm environment.
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Behavioural Problems of Farm Animals: What the 1977 Review Covered

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Illustrated Hereford cattle in pasture beside a simple carrier-to-carrier inheritance diagram.
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Hereditary dwarfism in beef cattle: genetics and calf outcomes

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Scientific illustration of a female Culicoides biting midge showing patterned wings and mouthparts.
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Biting midges: biology, disease transmission and control

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Macro view of a dark adult blackfly on a wet rock beside a fast-flowing stream.
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Blackflies: biology, life cycle, ecology and disease-vector roles

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Ant workers moving together across a surface during coordinated foraging activity.
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Insect pheromones and chemical communication in social insects

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Illustration of an animal leaving a transport crate during a monitored conservation release.
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Animal Translocation Stress: Conservation Risks and Management

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Veterinarian examines a dog's skin mass beside a cat, microscope and tissue slides
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Skin tumours in dogs and cats: what pathology data show

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Stable fly on a cow leg beside cattle, manure, straw and a fly trap
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Stomoxyine Biting Flies: Biology, Livestock Impact and Control

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From the archive · Animals

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PAN 20023164491 2000

Mites riding on bark beetles: the Elattoma species Khaustov described in 2000

Cited by Wikipedia – Crimea and 5 more domains PAN 19412200374 1940

Teart land in Somerset: the farmers’ bulletin that blamed molybdenum in the grass

Cited by Wiktionary – teart PAN 19510100131 1950

How a 1950 Hereford Herd Revealed Recessive Dwarfism

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