Comparative study of attractive power of Zebu and Baoule cattle for Glossina tachinoides Westwood, 1850 and Glossina morsitans submorsitans Newstead, 1910 in Sudano-Guinean savanna, Burkina Faso

Abstract

The olfactory attractive difference between Zebu and Baoule for tsetse flies has been studied to know whether it could be a factor of trypanotolerance. If Baoule urine has been more attractive than Zebu’s one, the result is opposite with global odour when identical weights of animals are used. The low difference observed (25 %) does not allow to conclude about the importance of this factor in trypanosomiasis epidemiology.