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<br /> <br /> Table 5. Continued. <br />' Species, dose, and <br /> other variables Effects <br />t Coyote, (continued) <br /> mg/kg FW, oC 0.014 and <br /> 0.029 in blood, and 0.6 end <br /> <0.1 in stomach <br />' Toxic collar, as above; Of the 12 coyotes that <br /> each coyote tested was attacked the neck region <br /> known to have fatally <br />attacked et least three of the sheep and punctured <br />the collar, nine received lethal <br /> domestic sheep within doses and became immobilized <br /> e 30-day period in 1~ min and died 3-25 <br /> min later; the mean time to <br />' death was 11.6 min; one <br /> of the three sublethally dosed <br /> coyotes survived at lest three <br /> successful attacks in which <br />' the collar was punctured, end <br /> two survived two attacks; in <br /> all cases, contact with NaCN <br />' produced shaking of the head, <br /> pawing at the mouth, rubbing <br /> the snout on the ground, and <br /> ataxia <br /> African giant rat, Cricetomys gambianus <br /> Weanlings fed diets for 16 Food consumption was similar in <br /> weeks containing 0 mg all diets; no pathology was <br />' HCN/kg fmaize), 110 mg HCN/kg observed in any organ of <br /> (cassava pulp), 150 mg HCN/kg animals on al] treatments; <br /> (cassava tuber), or 597 mg rats on maize and cassava <br /> HCN/kg (cassava peel) pulp diets had significantly <br />' increased growth rate, feed <br /> efficiency, and protein <br /> efficiency; rats on cassava <br /> peel and tuber diets had <br />' significantly increased <br /> thiocyanate levels in serum, <br /> organs, and urine <br />' Juveniles, age 10-14 Adverse effects on growth when <br /> weeks, fed cassava peel cassava peel exceeds 7.8%of <br /> diets for 2 weeks containing the ration <br /> 720 mg HCN/kg <br /> Weanlings fed 1,000 mg CN/kg Reduction in feed intake, <br /> diet, as KCN, for 12 weeks reduced body weight, elevated <br /> thiocyante concentrations in <br />' serum (37.4 mg/L vs. 12.6), <br /> urine f341 mg/L vs. 25), liver <br /> (1.7 g/kg FW vs. 0.4 ),kidney <br /> (2.4 g/kg FW vs. 0.4 ), and <br />spleen (2.1 g/kg FW vs. 0.3) <br /> Humans, Nomo sapiens <br /> Intentional oral ingestion of Death between 5 and 30 min; <br />' unknown amount of NaCN or KCN, stomach cyanide concentrations <br /> three cases ranged between 100 and 164 mg; <br /> tissue rrsidues postmortem, <br /> <br />CYANIDE <br />}te[erence• <br />37 <br />