Morphological characterization of Baladi goats in the West Bank, Palestine
Other Title(s)
الصفات الشكلية و المظهرية للماعز البلدي في الضفة الغربية-فلسطين
Joint Authors
Abd Allah, Jihad
Abu Umar, Jamal
Source
An-Najah University Journal for Research-A : Natural Sciences
Issue
Vol. 33, Issue 1 (28 Feb. 2019), pp.23-44, 22 p.
Publisher
An-Najah National University Deanship of Scientific Research
Publication Date
2019-02-28
Country of Publication
Palestine (West Bank)
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
-A field survey was conducted to characterize local “Baladi” goats in the West Bank, Palestine.
A total of 104 flocks were sampled in the Southern, Central and Northern geographical regions.
Qualitative and quantitative characteristics were recorded on 104 bucks and 416 does.
Significant differences were found between males and females and among regions.
The multivariate discriminant analyses were able to identify seven body measures for bucks and eight body measures for does which were significant in discriminating Baladi goat populations from the three regions.
For bucks, the squared Mahalanobis distances showed higher differentiation between the Southern and Central regions (11.83) and between the Southern and Northern regions (8.02) than between the Central and Northern regions (4.27).
For does, distances were similar (3.05, 2.90, and 3.13 between Southern and Central, between Southern and Northern, and between Central and Northern regions, respectively).
Canonical discriminant analyses showed that 81.6% of bucks and 74.1% of does were correctly classified into their geographic areas with highest rates found in the Southern region (96.9% of bucks and 88.3% of does).
These results form the basis for the development of future characterization and conservation plans of Baladi goats in Palestine.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd Allah, Jihad& Abu Umar, Jamal. 2019. Morphological characterization of Baladi goats in the West Bank, Palestine. An-Najah University Journal for Research-A : Natural Sciences،Vol. 33, no. 1, pp.23-44.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1024637
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd Allah, Jihad& Abu Umar, Jamal. Morphological characterization of Baladi goats in the West Bank, Palestine. An-Najah University Journal for Research-A : Natural Sciences Vol. 33, no. 1 (Feb. 2019), pp.23-44.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1024637
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd Allah, Jihad& Abu Umar, Jamal. Morphological characterization of Baladi goats in the West Bank, Palestine. An-Najah University Journal for Research-A : Natural Sciences. 2019. Vol. 33, no. 1, pp.23-44.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1024637
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 42-44
Record ID
BIM-1024637