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wildanimals, etc ; animal behavior; climate; cognition; heat stress; temperature; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Cognition enables animals to respond and adapt to environmental changes and has been linked to fitness in multiple species. Identifying the potential impact of a warming climate on cognition is therefore crucial. We quantified individual performance in an ecologically relevant cognitive trait, associative learning, to investigate the relationship between heat stress and cognition in wild Western A ...
wildanimals, etc ; COVID-19 infection; animal welfare; ecosystem management; humans; pandemic; wildlife; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The COVID-19 crisis remains an international health disaster with serious impacts on health and business. As countries asked, and continue to ask, their human populations to stay at home to limit the spread of coronavirus, wild animals have been spotted exploring the empty streets of some of the world’s largest urban areas.E This period of unusually reduced human mobility can provide invaluable in ...
wildanimals, etc ; Vulpes vulpes; adults; computed tomography; geography; models; morphometry; orthopedics; sexual dimorphism; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Three‐dimensional (3D) reconstructive techniques are being used in many morphometric studies and clinical applications. The red fox is a wild animal localized in a wide geography. This study has been performed to determine morphometric properties of the pelvic cavity and reveal differences between sexes via 3D reconstruction obtained by multi‐detector computed tomography images (MDCT) of the red f ...
wildanimals, etc ; COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; domestic animals; vaccination; viruses; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Giovanni Di Guardo argues that there is evidence of zoonotic spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 from wild and domestic animal species to people, and that to limit the development of new variants, vaccines should be developed for, and vaccination programmes include, species capable of becoming infected with and transmitting the virus. ...
wildanimals, etc ; animal suffering; ethics; journals; morality; service animals; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Is there a moral requirement to assist wild animals suffering due to natural causes? According to the laissez-faire intuition, although we may have special duties to assist wild animals, there are no general requirements to care for them. If this view is right, then our positive duties toward wild animals can be only special, grounded in special circumstances. In this article I present the contrib ...
wildanimals, etc ; COVID-19 infection; Canidae; Felidae; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; captive animals; humans; monitoring; pandemic; people; risk; risk assessment; viruses; wildlife; Belgium; Show all 15 Subjects
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... The aim of this review paper is to evaluate the putative susceptibilities of different free‐ranging wild animal species in Belgium to SARS‐CoV‐2 and provide a risk assessment of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in those animals. Since the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, natural SARS‐CoV‐2 infections have mainly been confirmed in domestic and production animals, and in wild animals kept in captivity, although ...
wildanimals, etc ; education; natural resources conservation; public opinion; surveys; wildlife; Poland; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The purpose of this preliminary study was to learn about citizens’ perceptions of promotion activities related to wildlife and nature conservation in public spaces in Warsaw, Poland. One hundred and fifty individuals, randomly approached, agreed to participate in the survey, 48 of whom were professionals in natural sciences. The survey contained 13 substantive questions, whereby predefined answers ...
Julia Martínez Pardo; Paula Cruz; Sergio Moya; Esteban Pizzio; Fernando Foletto; Facundo Robino; Jesica Aquino; Sebastián Costa; Yara Barros; Falcao Cleo; Mario S. Di Bitetti; Maria Eugenia Iezzi; Agustín Paviolo; Carlos De Angelo
wildanimals, etc ; acoustics; conservation areas; forests; landscapes; models; rain; Argentina; Brazil; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Poaching can have major impacts on wild animal populations and is pervasive in tropical regions. The spatial distribution of this furtive activity is particularly difficult to estimate in large natural areas, and this hinders the development of effective anti-poaching strategies. We used passive acoustic recorders in combination with occupancy models to develop a predictive map of poaching presenc ...
wildanimals, etc ; Macaca fascicularis; contraception; females; forests; monkeys; progeny; social networks; Indonesia; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Contraception is increasingly used to control wild animal populations. However, as reproductive condition influences social interactions in primates, the absence of new offspring could influence the females’ social integration. We studied two groups of wild macaques (Macaca fascicularis) including females recently sterilized in the Ubud Monkey Forest, Indonesia. We used social network analysis to ...
wildanimals, etc ; appetite; catalysts; cognition; food consumption; meat; pandemic; people; risk; trade; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Most infectious diseases are zoonotic, “jumping” from animals to humans, with COVID-19 no exception. Although many zoonotic transmissions occur on industrial-scale factory farms, public discussions mainly blame wild animal (“wet”) markets or focus on reactionary solutions, posing a psychological obstacle to preventing future pandemics. In two pre-registered studies early in the 2020 pandemic, we e ...
wildanimals, etc ; Camelidae; Odocoileus virginianus; cattle; influenza; swine; virology; viruses; North America; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Influenza D virus (IDV) infections have been identified worldwide in cattle, swine, camelid, and small ruminants, mostly in domestic livestock. Here we report that the wild white-tailed deer in North America were exposed to IDVs, suggesting IDVs infect a wide range of hosts including wild animal populations. ...
wildanimals, etc ; Desmodus; animal health; cattle; habitat destruction; livestock production; rabies; Mexico; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Desmodus rotundus is one of the wild animal species that has benefitted by habitat alteration and its population has increased due to livestock activities. Common vampire bat population management has been implemented across Mexico due to the economic losses to livestock production, inflicted by vampire bat attacks and rabies transmission. Yucatan is one of the seven most impacted states in Mexico ...
wildanimals, etc ; ethics; food security; food sovereignty; foodways; markets; traditional foods; Greenland; Ontario; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The disparity between rates of food insecurity experienced in households across Canada (8.3%) and in Indigenous households specifically (nearly half) is alarming. Many previous studies have demonstrated the physical, spiritual, mental, social and emotional benefits of consuming traditional foods (primarily wild animal food sources and wild edible plants), yet many Indigenous peoples in northern On ...
wildanimals, etc ; Diomedea exulans; Fulmarus; Pagodroma nivea; females; immigration; males; population dynamics; seabirds; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Immigration is a major demographic parameter shaping population dynamics and is an important driver of eco‐evolutionary patterns, but the fitness consequences for individuals following their settlement to a new population (immigrants) remain poorly tested in wild animal populations, particularly among long‐lived species. Here we show that immigrants have a lower fitness than residents in three wil ...
wildanimals, etc ; Bayesian theory; autocorrelation; data collection; meta-analysis; spatial data; wildlife diseases; Show all 7 Subjects
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... All parasites are heterogeneous in space, yet little is known about the prevalence and scale of this spatial variation, particularly in wild animal systems. To address this question, we sought to identify and examine spatial dependence of wildlife disease across a wide range of systems. Conducting a broad literature search, we collated 31 datasets featuring 89 replicates and 71 unique host–parasit ...
wildanimals, etc ; biosphere; food production; phosphorus; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Phosphorus (P) is essential for all life on Earth and sustains food production. Yet, the easily accessible deposits of phosphate-rich rock, which underpin the green revolution are becoming rarer. Here we propose a mechanism to help alleviate the problem of “peak phosphorus”. In the past, wild animals played a large role in returning P from ocean depths back to the continental interiors. In doing s ...
wildanimals, etc ; Elephas maximus; androstenedione; cortisol; gonads; herds; humidity; immunoassays; males; rain; temperature; testosterone; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The measurement of stress and reproductive hormones in wild animal species by non-invasive methods is of special interest. To assess whether the adrenal and gonadal hormones show annual variations in male Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and to evaluate whether there is any influence of climatic variables on hormonal secretion, fecal samples were taken from a herd of 7 Asian elephants over a 14-m ...
wildanimals, etc ; adults; females; fuelwood; humans; landscapes; livestock; mark-recapture studies; social networks; Tanzania; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Experimental laboratory evidence suggests that animals with disrupted social systems express weakened relationship strengths and have more exclusive social associations, and that these changes have functional consequences. A key question is whether anthropogenic pressures have a similar impact on the social structure of wild animal communities. We addressed this question by constructing a social n ...
wildanimals, etc ; Hendra henipavirus; Pteropodidae; dynamic models; foxes; population structure; probability; viruses; wildlife; Australia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Frequent outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases originating from wild animals have highlighted the necessity of managing wildlife populations to prevent zoonotic spillover, and the appropriate development of management protocols required attention on gaining a better understanding of viral dynamics in wild animal populations. In east Australia, there have been outbreaks of Hendra virus (HeV) in ...
wildanimals, etc ; Bacteroidetes; Cervus; Firmicutes; deer; endangered species; intestinal microorganisms; models; multidimensional scaling; China; Show all 10 Subjects
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... White-lipped deer (Cervus albirostris) is a nationally protected wild animal species in China, as well as a unique and endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. Captivity may alleviate the pressure from poaching and contribute to the repopulation and conservation of the population in the wild. The gut microbiota is described as a complex, ...