Diurnal fecal glucocorticoid metabolite rhythms in a cathemeral primate, the red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer), and across mammalian species.

Measuring glucocorticoids is one of the most reliable and widely used techniques to monitor stress responses, however invasive techniques to collect plasma samples may not be applicable for wild populations. Monitoring excreted glucocorticoids is an effective noninvasive technique that researchers have used increasingly over the past two decades, and it has allowed the investigation of glucocorticoids in a variety of species with a range of activity patterns. Many species exhibit predictable circadian patterns of glucocorticoid secretion in accordance with their daily activity pattern.

Salmonella serotypes isolated from chicken meat in Albania.

A total of 31 salmonellae, belonging to four different serogroups and nine serotypes, were isolated from 30 out of 461 (6.5%) chicken meat samples, taken during a 3-year period, from 1996 to 1998. There were no significant differences among years in Salmonella positive samples, ranging from 5.

Salmonella serotypes isolated from turkey meat in Albania.

Eleven (11) Salmonella strains were recovered from 11 (8.2%) out of 134 turkey meat samples in Albania, for the period of time 1996-1998. The percentage of Salmonella positive turkey meat samples varied with 5% in 1996 (3 out of 60), 14.

Occurrence of Salmonella spp. in imported eggs into Albania.

Seventy-nine shell egg lots imported into Albania during the 2-years period 1996-1997 (69 lots during 1996 and 10 lots during 1997) were investigated for the presence of the Salmonella spp. Salmonella was detected in 1 out of 79 analysed pooled samples (1.26%).

Life history of Eulemur fulvus rufus from 1988-1998 in southeastern Madagascar.

In this study, we compare the life-history patterns of male and female Eulemur fulvus rufus based on longitudinal data collected on individuals from two study groups from 1988-1998 in southeastern Madagascar. Mean group size was 9.5 individuals, and groups either contained more adult males than females or equal numbers of both sexes.