Impact of lifestyle on the formation of helminth fauna of domestic carnivores in Azerbaijan | ||
| Parasitologists United Journal | ||
| Article 14, Volume 15, Issue 1, April 2022, Pages 121-123 PDF (289.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Short Communication | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/puj.2022.121221.1157 | ||
| Author | ||
| Reyhan Ibrahimova* | ||
| Institute of Zoology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, AZE 1073, Baku, Azerbaijan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The lifestyle of domestic carnivores (nutrition, behaviors, and individual characteristics) has direct impact on the formation of infective helminthological fauna. The lifestyle of domesticated animals is characterized by features that contrast with other animals: they always preen themselves, dig the ground (soil), domestic cats dig the soil and cover their excretion, they always shake their body, they adhere to the place where they feed, their kindness with humans, especially to children. Each of these characteristics is important in the infection of stray dogs and cats with different helminths and in the formation of helminthological fauna. Irrespective of the environmental conditions, they maintain their habitual behaviors in all seasons, spreading helminthic eggs, ecologically polluting the environment. In all climatic conditions, they are a source of infection for humans and ruminants thus assigning their epizootic and epidemiological importance in the ecosystem. The aim of this study is to draw attention to the importance of helminthic fauna in domestic carnivores in Azerbaijan. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Azerbaijan; biohelminths; carnivores; cats; geohelminths; humans; stray dogs | ||
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