In addition, investigations of the foraging of insect pollinators, such as honeybees, have led to impressive increases in agricultural crop yields throughout the world. Likewise in Sweden, where collisions involving moose ( Alces alces) are among the most common traffic accidents in rural areas, research on moose behaviour has yielded ways of keeping them off roads and verges. For example, in Britain, studies on the social organization and the ranging patterns of badgers ( Meles meles) have helped reduce the spread of tuberculosis among cattle, and studies of sociality in foxes ( Vulpes vulpes) assist in the development of models that predict how quickly rabies would spread should it ever cross the English Channel. Even today, information about animal behaviour is of considerable importance. Whether hunting wild game, keeping domesticated animals, or escaping an attacking predator, success required intimate knowledge of an animal’s habits. Initially, animals were probably observed for practical reasons because early human survival depended on knowledge of animal behaviour.
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