Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACTAnimal medical systems encompass a wide range of behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving health. It has become clear that these behaviours are not limited to animals treating themselves (self‐medication) but also include the treatment of group members, resulting in the adoption of the more inclusive term “animal medication”. Behaviour with
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Traditional Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Eurasian Red Squirrel (<i>Sciurus vulgaris</i>) in Finland. [PDF]
Ecol EvolEurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has played an important role in Finnish traditional culture and livelihoods from pre‐historic times. Convergence of observations points to the case where the iconic mammal of the northern forests is in decline and migrating to the urban habitats, with a number of important consequences.
Mustonen T.
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Ethnobotanical Study of Traditional Medicinal Plants Used by the Local People in Mekdela Woreda, South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Scientifica (Cairo)Folk medicine has long been the most popular availability and hospitalization option for those who are unable to afford modern medications in the primary healthcare system. But migration, industrialization, and other factors are contributing to the disappearance of indigenous herbal medicine insight.
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Storage Method for ‘Psocoptera’ (Insecta: Psocodea) in “CD Box”
EntomoBrasilis, 2016 . The use of a “CD box” adapted to the storage of slides, and other body parts of dissected psocopterans was proposed. Um Método de Armazenamento para Psocoptera (Insecta: Psocodea) em Caixa de CD Resumo.
Alberto Moreira Silva-Neto +2 more
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Psocoptera (Insecta: Psocodea) from the National Natural Park Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia [PDF]
, 2014 The Psocoptera fauna of Gorgona National Natural Park, Colombian pacific, consists of 75 species in 42 genera and 21 families. 1 730 specimens were collected in the period November 2007-June 2011.
García Aldrete, Alfonso N. +2 more
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Global Circulation and Local Dynamics (1840s–1860s) in Response to the Brown Soft-Scale Coccus hesperidum [PDF]
, 2020 UIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020Bioinvasions occurred in the past as they do in the present, raising a set of ecological, economic, cultural and scientific changes.
Queiroz, Ana Isabel
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Ethnomedicinal indices based ethno-veterinary plant profile of Yousaf Baba Hills, District Mohmand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of BiologyThe local communities in Pakistan's remote mountainous regions possess a unique and rich treasure trove of ethnoveterinary knowledge regarding an indigenous medicinal plant that has been passed down through generations for centuries. In these hilly areas,
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The Animal Sexes as Historical Explanatory Kinds [PDF]
, 2020 Though biologists identify individuals as ‘male’ or ‘female’ across a broad range of animal species, the particular traits exhibited by males and females can vary tremendously.
Franklin-Hall, Laura
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Extreme genetic diversity in asexual grass thrips populations. [PDF]
, 2016 The continuous generation of genetic variation has been proposed as one of the main factors explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction in nature.
Dumas, Z. +2 more
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Lichens, Sun, and Fire: A Search for an Embiid-Environment Connection in Australia (Order Embiidina: Australembiidae and Notoligotomidae) [PDF]
, 2004 This investigation is the first to quantify the degree of habitat specialization for any species within the little-known order Embiidina. The lichen and plant communities found in the habitats of two sympatric species, one living on lichens encrusted on ...
Edgerly-Rooks, Janice, Rooks, Edward
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