A large-scale survey of the amount of diclofenac in liver tissue from carcases of domesticated ungulates available to vultures as food in India in 2004 2005 showed that the prevalence and concentration of the drug was sufficient to cause the observed rapid population declines [7], [12].
Three Asian vulture species are now critically endangered because of acute toxicity following consumption of the carcases of diclofenac-treated livestock.
Key beef breeds in the United Kingdom grow from 750 g/days liveweight and produce carcases of 275 kg at 450+ days of age (Kempster and Southgate, 1984).
Only fresh carcases of reptiles with previous clinical signs of regurgitation and progressive wasting or with hypertrophic gastritis seen at necropsy changes were tested for the presence of Cryptosporidium sp. and those with diarrhoea or diphtheroid lesions of intestinal mucosa were tested for the presence of Trichomonadidae.
Future analyses might consider growth and carcase characteristics of the young animal separately from that of the older animals.
(c) The distribution of diclofenac concentrations in meals is given by the product of the ratio of concentration in the whole carcase to that in the liver and the distribution of liver concentrations fitted to the results of the survey of ungulate carcasses described above.
Between these ages, problems with dressing the carcase occur because of the presence of developing pin feathers.
Both Taste of Death (his earliest narrative, not published until 1975) and Carcase for Hounds (1974) capture the spirit of the resistance movement in the Kikuyu highlands of colonial Kenya.
In subsequent days, aphids that had run away from the original leaf colonies were found in a drifting status, died, and appeared as white carcases on other different parts of the plants.
