Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorO'Hagan, M.J.H.
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Alan Wesley
dc.contributor.authorMcCormick, C.M.
dc.contributor.authorCollins, S.F.
dc.contributor.authorTrimble, N.A.
dc.contributor.authorMcGeown, C.F.
dc.contributor.authorMcHugh, G.E.
dc.contributor.authorMcBride, K.R.
dc.contributor.authorMenzies, F.D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-25T11:33:28Z
dc.date.available2021-05-25T11:33:28Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-07
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 23 April 2021; Published online - 7 May 2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThe role of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) as a wildlife host has complicated the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Badger ranging behaviour has previously been found to be altered by culling of badgers and has been suggested to increase the transmission of bTB either among badgers or between badgers and cattle. In 2014, a five-year bTB intervention research project in a 100 km2 area in Northern Ireland was initiated involving selective removal of dual path platform (DPP) VetTB (immunoassay) test positive badgers and vaccination followed by release of DPP test negative badgers (‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’). Home range sizes, based on position data obtained from global positioning system collared badgers, were compared between the first year of the project, where no DPP test positive badgers were removed, and follow-up years 2–4 when DPP test positive badgers were removed. A total of 105 individual badgers were followed over 21 200 collar tracking nights. Using multivariable analyses, neither annual nor monthly home ranges differed significantly in size between years, suggesting they were not significantly altered by the bTB intervention that was applied in the study area.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for Northern Ireland.en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/256
dc.identifier.citationO’Hagan, M. J. H., Gordon, A. W., McCormick, C. M., Collins, S. F., Trimble, N. A., McGeown, C. F., McHugh, G. E., McBride, K. R. and Menzies, F. D. (2021) ‘Effect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a “Test and Vaccinate or Remove” intervention in Northern Ireland’, Epidemiology and Infection. Cambridge University Press (CUP), 149. doi: 10.1017/s0950268821001096.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1469-4409
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001096
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citeden_US
dc.subjectBadgersen_US
dc.subjectBovine tuberculosisen_US
dc.subjecthomerangesen_US
dc.subjectselective cullingen_US
dc.subjecttest and vaccinate or removeen_US
dc.titleEffect of selective removal of badgers (Meles meles) on ranging behaviour during a ‘Test and Vaccinate or Remove’ intervention in Northern Irelanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-04-23
dcterms.dateSubmitted2020-07-27

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