Underneath that veranda, Fitzgerald writes, if you lifted one of the loose planks, there was a good deal of rustling animal and vegetable life.
Fulani pastoralists are also seen to engage in banditry activities such as cattle rustling, animal theft (sheep, fowls, goats, etc)., theft of food crops and confiscating motorbikes.
Similarly, Thys et al. (2005), in an examination of the socio-economic determinants of urban livestock production in a semi-arid environment, documented that theft (cattle rustling), animal health problems, feed supply and manure management constrain livestock farming.
Later, the sun sets, the shadows gather, rustling the low bushes like animals just awake for the night.
Rustling leaves will alert the animal that it is being stalked.
But the cabin was in the woods and powerful moist scents of pine and fern swept through the screens with the morning chirrup of birds and the evening rustle of animals.
Natural environments are usually filled with noise from several sources, such as wind, moving water, rustling leaves, and sounds from other animals.
Animals are rustled, crops stolen, people assaulted and even killed.
Pastoralist contributions to the economies of developing countries, including supporting their own households and supplying animal protein (meat and milk) to villages and towns, are hampered by cattle rustling.
