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Wapiti
Definition:
(n.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Semen collected from wapiti (Cervus elaphus) in Canada in 1983 was frozen in two extenders.
(2) Hybrids of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and wapiti (Cervus canadensis) were immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).
(3) A sample of North American wapiti (n = 42) was monomorphic for the DIA1F allele.
(4) This drug combination can reduce markedly the duration of recovery from xylazine hydrochloride-induced sedation in wapiti.
(5) Specimens from 28 wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis) were collected by hunters in southwestern Alberta in 1984.
(6) The intensity of infection generally was low; however, one wapiti had over 600 flukes in the liver.
(7) Dictyocaulus viviparus was found in lungs of 14% of 50 moose, 14% of 118 mule deer, 12% of 41 wapiti, and 6% of 54 white-tailed deer.
(8) A total of 87 brains from harvested and collected wapiti and red deer (Cervus spp.)
(9) While the effects of the parasite in the population studied did not produce a high herd mortality or a sudden die-off situation, the apparent greater susceptibility of the younger age-classes to the parasite would have a detrimental effect on population recruitment and might limit the growth of wapiti herds living in proximity to white-tailed deer that harbor P. tenuis.
(10) Visual observations and fecal pellet group transect data indicated that wapiti spent the majority of their time in open fields and meadows where we recovered the least numbers of gastropods.
(11) In northern Idaho, a 10-year old wapiti(Cervus canadensis nelsoni) died showing signs of ataxia and alopecia.
(12) The study indicates that wapiti may be infected with natural infections of meningeal worm and pass larvae suitable for transmission to gastropod intermediate hosts.
(13) Eight captive wapiti (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) were injected with xylazine hydrochloride on two occasions during March and April 1984.
(14) Hyperactive, aggressive, and milling behavior was characteristic of treated wapiti and they were extremely dangerous and reared when hind quarters were touched.
(15) We were not able to detect any free-ranging wapiti that were shedding P. tenuis larvae nor were we able to detect past or sub-clinical infections with P. tenuis in wapiti.
(16) Although treated plains bison displayed some milling behavior, they were generally more calm than wapiti.
(17) Trypanosomes were isolated from a wapiti (Cervus canadensis) and 72 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from several locations in Michigan.
(18) Gastropod occurrence and the utilization of habitat by sympatric populations of wapiti (Cervus elephus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on range enzootic for meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) were studied on Cookson Hills Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in eastern Oklahoma.
(19) The resulting phenogram based on genetic distance demonstrates that sika are twice as distantly related to red deer and wapiti, than the latter are to each other and suggests that sika-like forms are ancestral.
(20) Leptospiral serology on cattle in the area did not indicate that wapiti or cattle were a serious source of infection to each other.