This is true both in domestic and wild ruminants.
Bothriochloa bladhii is used as stored food for local livestock, and as a grazing plant by both livestock and wild ruminants.
However this generalization does not extend to wild ruminants or camelids.
It can infect both domestic and wild ruminants and has a worldwide distribution.
There are also about 75 million wild ruminants.
For control of fascioloidosis in wild ruminants, successful application of anthelminthics in feed is necessary.
Therefore, only some of anthelminthics that are efficient in domestic ruminants have been tested in wild ruminants infected with F. magna.
Unfortunately, rafoxanide in a commercial drug called Rafendazol Premix is the only registered drug for wild ruminants.
Other minor potential reservoirs have been indicated in various fly biting habit studies: hippopotamus, wild ruminants (e.g., buffalo), rodents, and lizards.
Out upon the plain grazed numerous herds of wild ruminants.