Badgers as Super Rangers
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Channel: Trinity College Dublin · 2018 · Education
Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working with a multi-disciplinary team of veterinarians and ecologists from the Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine (DAFM) and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), have discovered a brand new ‘super-ranging’ behaviour in badgers, which has major implications for implementing vaccination programmes to limit the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Speaker: Aoibheann Gaughran, PhD Researcher, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. http://www.tcd.ie/
