ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology2013
Denning behaviour of the European badger (
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- Estimation of Bait Uptake by Badgers, Using Non-invasive Methods, in the Perspective of Oral Vaccination Against Bovine Tuberculosis in a French Infected Area.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Bidirectional interactions between host social behaviour and parasites arise through ecological and evolutionary processes.Parasitology · 2021Article
- Social structure contains epidemics and regulates individual roles in disease transmission in a group-living mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Contact networks structured by sex underpin sex-specific epidemiology of infection.Ecology letters · 2018Article
- Bait uptake by wild badgers and its implications for oral vaccination against tuberculosis.PloS one · 2018Article
- Seasonal variation in daily patterns of social contacts in the European badgerEcology and evolution · 2017Article
- Inference of the infection status of individuals using longitudinal testing data from cryptic populations: Towards a probabilistic approach to diagnosis.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Abundance of badgers (Meles meles) in England and Wales.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- The impact of health status on dispersal behavior in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo).EcoHealth · 2014Article
- Patterns of direct and indirect contact between cattle and badgers naturally infected with tuberculosis.Epidemiology and infection · 2013Article
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Abstract
Heterogeneities in behaviours of individuals may underpin important processes in evolutionary biology and ecology, including the spread of disease. Modelling approaches can sometimes fail to predict disease spread, which may partly be due to the number of unknown sources of variation in host behaviour. The European badger is a wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in Britain and Ireland, and individual behaviour has been demonstrated to be an important factor in the spread of bTB among badgers and to cattle. Radio-telemetry devices were deployed on 40 badgers from eight groups to investigate patterns of den (sett) use in a high-density population, where each group had one or two main and three to eight outlier setts in their territory. Badgers were located at their setts for 28 days per season for 1 year to investigate how patterns differed between individuals. Denning behaviour may have a strong influence on contact patterns and the transmission of disease. We found significant heterogeneity, influenced by season, sex and age. Also, when controlling for these, bTB infection status interacting with season was highly correlated with sett use. Test-positive badgers spent more time away from their main sett than those that tested negative. We speculate that wider-ranging behaviour of test-positive animals may result in them contacting sources of infection more frequently and/or that their behaviour may be influenced by their disease status. Measures to control infectious diseases might be improved by targeting functional groups, specific areas or times of year that may contribute disproportionately to disease spread.
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