Featured Research: Animals

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Focus on One Health

Our current feature focuses on the collaboration managed by the University's Faculty of Veterinary Science where veterinarians and other experts are working on various projects at the interface of human, animal and environmental health. The Faculty has made substantial progress in incorporating the One Health philosophy into its undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and is working towards...

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Vets and other experts collaborate for human animal and environmental health

Recent disease outbreaks like Ebola and bird flu occurred largely because humans and animals share an environment in which disease can spread from one to the other.

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UP vets and other experts collaborate for human, animal and environmental health

One Health supports rural farming communities at the interface with wildlife conservation. Vets and other experts collaborate for human, animal and environmental health.

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UP researchers weigh in on bird flu outbreak

University of Pretoria researchers are working with the poultry industry and the National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) to contain the current bird flu outbreak in South Africa.

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Ensuring better health and proper care for cheetahs in captivity

It can reach a speed of 100km/h in just three seconds, is extremely light in weight and aerodynamically streamlined, and can cover nine metres in just one stride at almost four strides per second. For more than half of every stride, it is airborne.

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With the wild ones – a reflection of science and passion

It might sound strange at first to hear of a professor in human oral pathology who researches animals, but Prof Erich Raubenheimer has spent over a quarter of a century studying the great African Elephant (Loxodonta africana). What started as a challenge by an American researcher to bring something unique to the international research community, soon became so much more than science and one of...