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Characterizing the collective personality of ant societies: aggressive colonies do not abandon their home. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Animal groups can show consistent behaviors or personalities just like solitary animals. We studied the collective behavior of Temnothorax nylanderi ant colonies, including consistency in behavior and correlations between different behavioral traits.
Inon Scharf +4 more
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Social Sciences, 2022 When a woman seeks emergency shelter from an abusive relationship, she may bring her children but rarely companion animals. Through a Critical Animal Studies (CAS) lens, this article qualitatively analyzes in-depth interviews with shelter workers in ...
Sarah May Lindsay
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Dog importation and changes in heartworm prevalence in Colorado 2013–2017
Parasites & Vectors, 2019 Background Animal welfare organizations, in order to increase dog adoptions and reduce euthanasia of homeless dogs, are transporting large numbers of dogs from state-to-state.
Jason Drake, Rudolph S. Parrish
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A multi-method approach to delineate and validate migratory corridors [PDF]
, 2017 Context: Managers are faced with numerous methods for delineating wildlife movement corridors, and often must make decisions with limited data. Delineated corridors should be robust to different data and models.
Bond, Monica L. +4 more
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Animals, 2020 While religious slaughter is not a new practice in Australia, it has recently attracted public concern regarding questions of animal welfare following unfavourable media coverage.
Jessica Loyer +3 more
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Ecological restoration and dike relocation on the river Elbe, Germany [PDF]
Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 2013 Floodplain restoration has been successfully initiated on a 420 hectare area on the Middle Elbe River in the German Federal State of Brandenburg. Within a federally funded “Large Scale Conservation Project”, grassland dominated agricultural landscape ...
DAMM Christian
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Continuous Improvement on Detailed Design Phase: A Process Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2020 The construction project being studied is a government investment related to the relocation of a biomedical institute delivering research-based knowledge and contingency support in the fields of animal health, fish health and food safety.
Bo Terje Kalsaas +2 more
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Behavioral ecology of disturbed landscapes: the response of territorial animals to relocation [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2005 Intraspecific territorial interactions are common for a large variety of wildlife species. This often results in high-quality habitat being occupied by dominant individuals, with subordinates relegated to lower quality habitat. The role that these territorial interactions play in influencing the redistribution of animals that have been evicted from ...
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Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa [PDF]
, 2017 ecause empirical studies of animal movement are most-often site- and species-specific, we lack understanding of the level of consistency in movement patterns across diverse taxa, as well as a framework for quantitatively classifying movement patterns. We
Abrahms, B +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Infrequent, long-distance animal movements outside of typical home range areas provide useful insights into resource acquisition, gene flow, and disease transmission within the fields of conservation and wildlife management, yet understanding of these ...
Todd C Jacobsen +2 more
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