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JANUARY 2008 HOMEWORK 8
Llama Topics: Check out this: llamapaedia
1. What guarding behaviours do llamas have against predators?
2. What is beserk male syndrome?
Here are some more llama links:
3. llamas
4. Check out the AASRP. You might want to become a member.
5. Rocky Mountain Llama and Alpaca Association
6. Check out the health page to find info on epyrthrozoonosis.
7. Here is a link to Marty McGees webpage.
8. Here is a link to a farm where you can find a lot of information on llamas and camellids.
9. Here is a link to another farm with a website containing a lot of information.
10. Read about the feral camel in Australia and its environmental impact here.
Find the wapiti home page
11. What is the recent average price for velvet?
12. How much velvet will an average two year old bull grow?
Check out this: Chronic Wasting Disease
13. What species are affected by this disease?
14. What is the current distribution of this disease?
Check out this: http://reindeer.salrm.uaf.edu/
15. What vaccine has been developed for reindeer? Brucellosis.
Check out the reindeer handling.
16. What method was used to round up the reindeer? Helicopters.
Also check out this: reindeer of scandinavia and northern russia
17. How much of the earth's land surface is used for reindeer herding?
18. Do reindeer use their horns as a first or last defense mechanism?
19. What is epizootic hemorrhagic disease?
20. Here is a link to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. You may wish to do an externship with them.
21. This is a link to some useful camellid information.
22. Here is the Manual on Meat Inspection for Developing Countries.
Recent Developments in Ostrich Farming
From this link at OKState go to the bottom of the page and follow that link back to instructional materials at OKState by department.
