Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were alive.

“Rinderpest has been one of the top priorities of FAO in its quest to defeat hunger and improve lives through agriculture” said Ann Tutwiler, FAO Deputy Director-General (Knowledge).

The rinderpest virus, shown here infecting a cell, is highly contagious in cattle Scientists have destroyed the UK's laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses.

The 19th-century lions may have been unable to find buffalo because of rinderpest, a disease that spread through the area in ...

Sunseri, Thaddeus 2024. The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940. Journal of Eastern African Studies, p. 1.

like rabies or rinderpest, that could have jumped species boundaries and wiped out all the big beasts. "[MacPhee's hyphothesis] doesn't even have circumstantial evidence," says Haynes ...

Whether the virus would then adapt to the new host remains to be seen", he said The researchers that I have spoken to are quick to highlight what happened in cattle when rinderpest vaccination ...

A single buffalo hair was also found using microscopy, and while buffalo are the preferred prey of modern Tsavo lions, the viral disease rinderpest devastated cattle and buffalo populations in the ...

But the man-eating lions had virtually no buffalo hair in their teeth, an absence consistent with the spread of rinderpest, a cattle disease, through Africa in the 1890s. The team was also ...

Another example involves the introduction and subsequent removal of a viral disease called rinderpest in African ungulates. The virus was introduced to native ungulates from domestic livestock in ...

A single buffalo hair was also found using microscopy, and while buffalo are the preferred prey of modern Tsavo lions, the viral disease rinderpest devastated cattle and buffalo populations in the ...