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Sanborn, C.C.; Hoogstraal, H.
Some mammals of Yemen and their ectoparasites
1953 Fieldiana Zoology (34): 229-252
Late in 1950, His Majesty Imam Ahmad bin Yahya Hamid al-din, King of Yemen, invited Captain J. J. Spaero, M.C., U.S.N., Director of the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, Cairo, Egypt, to send a group of experts to make a brief medical survey of the Yemen for His Majesty's guidance in future disease control administration. In order to learn as much as possible about parasite-bearing mammals in the short period of six weeks, during which other professional and social duties had to be fulfilled, it was decided to specialize on the common species in or near populated areas. For this reason little or no attempt was made to secure rarities. The party had been erroneously advised not to take firearms to the Yemen and so was unable to collect many of the larger mammals. The work in the Yemen was done during the height of the dry season.
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