Cadaver wrapping and attendance performance of adult flies in an oil palm plantation in northern Peninsular Malaysia

• Main Authors: Azwani, Ahmad, Abu Hassan, Ahmad, Hamady, Dieng, Tomomotsu, Satho, Hamdan, Ahmad, Al Thbyani, Aziz, Micheal, Boots
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Entomological Society of America 2011
• Subjects: QL Zoology; SF Animal culture
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10245/1/Azwani%2C%20Ahmad.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10245/; http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1603/MI10247

There is accumulating evidence that criminals wrap dead bodies in an attempt to conceal evidence. To anticipate the forensic implications of this phenomenon, we examined whether ßies that are naturally associated with cadavers exhibit a delay in attendance or differ in species composition and abu...