{"id":142989,"date":"2022-07-28T03:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/parasites-may-take-a-heavier-toll-on-the-health-of-mammal-populations-than-previously-thought-study-suggests"},"modified":"2022-07-28T03:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:22:52","slug":"parasites-may-take-a-heavier-toll-on-the-health-of-mammal-populations-than-previously-thought-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/parasites-may-take-a-heavier-toll-on-the-health-of-mammal-populations-than-previously-thought-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Parasites may take a heavier toll on the health of mammal populations than previously thought, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parasites-may-take-a-heavier-toll-on-the-health-of-mammal-populations-than-previously-thought-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From cattle to uncontrolled wildlife, pesky but pervasive large parasites like tapeworms have a far greater impact on the total body health of their mammal hosts than previously known, new University of Alberta research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParasites don\u2019t have to kill the animal to control a population,\u201d says Kyle Shanebeck, a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Science\u2019s Department of Biological Sciences who led the study.<\/p>\n<p>Shanebeck explained that all wildlife have at least one and often multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/parasites\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">parasites<\/a>. The less fatal a parasite, the more prevalent it is within a population, with potentially stronger negative effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From cattle to uncontrolled wildlife, pesky but pervasive large parasites like tapeworms have a far greater impact on the total body health of their mammal hosts than previously known, new University of Alberta research suggests. \u201cParasites don\u2019t have to kill the animal to control a population,\u201d says Kyle Shanebeck, a Ph.D. student in the Faculty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}