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To peck or not to peck: the influence of early-life social environment on response inhibition and impulsive aggression in Japanese quails

Royal Society Open Science
Deficits in response inhibition (RI; i.e. the ability to suppress inappropriate responses) may contribute to increased impulsive aggression (IA; i.e. unplanned behaviours that harm others).
Alizée Vernouillet, Kathryn Willcox, Reinoud Allaert, Anneleen Dewulf, Wen Zhang, Camille A. Troisi, Sophia Knoch, A. Martel, Luc Lens, Frederick Verbruggen   +9 more
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Blood parasite infections in a wild population of ravens (Corvus corax) in Bulgaria

Malaria Journal, 2018
Background Blood parasites have been studied intensely in many families of avian hosts, but corvids, a particularly cosmopolitan family, remain underexplored.
Peter Shurulinkov, Lachezar Spasov, Georgi Stoyanov, Nayden Chakarov   +3 more
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Wild birds in south china agro-ecosystems and long-distance spread of H5N1 [PDF]

, 2011
Agricultural intensification in South China has increased densities of domestic ducks raised on intensively irrigated paddy fields, an important factor in the persistence of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV).
Cappelle, Julien, Newman, Scott, Takekawa, John Y., Xiao, Xiangming, Zhao, Delong   +4 more
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Airport noise predicts song timing of European birds [PDF]

, 2016
Anthropogenic noise is of increasing concern to biologists and medical scientists. Its detrimental effects on human health have been well studied, with the high noise levels from air traffic being of particular concern.
Arroyo-Solís, Barber, Brumm, Brumm, Brumm, Brumm, Brumm, Burger, Catchpole, Dominoni, Dominoni, Dominoni, Dominoni, Dominoni, Dooling, Dorado-Correa, Francis, Fuller, Gil, Gil, Halfwerk, Kempenaers, Kight, Kight, Krebs, Kyba, Lampe, McGregor, McNamara, Nemeth, Nordt, Poesel, Riebel, Silva, Simpson, Slater, Sun, Swaddle, Thomas, Ware, Yang   +40 more
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A Comparative Study on Early‐Stage Icing Evaluation Techniques for Passive Ice Protection Systems

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This study addresses the lack of standardized methodologies for evaluating the early‐stage icing performance of passive ice protection systems. A unified experimental protocol is proposed and applied to representative hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces under controlled conditions.
Lorenzo Facco, Elena Colusso, Marco Tancon, Alessandro Martucci, Riccardo Parin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking response Inhibition in animals – part 2: an empirical test

Animal Cognition
Response inhibition - the ability to suppress or stop actions - is crucial for adaptive behaviour across species. In Part 1 of this study, we presented a conceptual framework for understanding response inhibition as multifaceted.
Camille A. Troisi, Alizée Vernouillet, Reinoud Allaert, Sophia Knoch, An Martel, Luc Lens, Frederick Verbruggen   +6 more
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Impact of predation by the black rat, rattus rattus, on the breeding success of cory’s shearwater, Calonectris diomedea, on Linosa island (Sicily, Italy)

Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012
Black Rat, Rattus rattus, is one of the most common species on Mediterranean islands; it is found on all of the large and medium-sized islands, and on many of the smallest ones as well (Perfetti et alii, 2001).
Giuseppe Rannisi, Loredana Murabito, Marco Gustin, Bruno Massa   +3 more
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Survival rates of captive-bred Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii in a hunted migratory population [PDF]

, 2016
Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii numbers are declining owing to unsustainable levels of hunting and poaching, with the main conservation response being population reinforcement through the release of captive-bred birds.
Burnside, Robert, Collar, Nigel, Dolman, Paul, Scotland, Keith   +3 more
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Impact of Oxygen Plasma Pre‐Treatment on Thermal Oxidation and Reliability of SiO2 on 4H‐SiC

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
We investigate how oxygen plasma pre‐treatment affects the thermal oxidation of silicon carbide. While plasma modification increases growth rates by 84%, it reduces dielectric breakdown strength by 18%. Our findings reveal that although plasma improves the interface state density, it introduces structural damage, highlighting a critical trade‐off ...
Chezhiyan Nanjappan, Michael Stöger‐Pollach, Georg Pfusterschmied, Ulrich Schmid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution, Abundance, Breeding Performance and Habitat Requirements of the Lesser Spotted Eagle in South-east Bulgaria

Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2018
The Lesser Spotted Eagle is a long-lived, territorial raptor, distributed mainly in Eastern and Central Europe. Southeast Bulgaria is a part of the southern limit of the species distribution range.
Dimitar A. Demerdzhiev, Dobromir D. Dobrev, Volen S. Arkumarev, Nikolai G. Terziev, Georgi S. Popgeorgiev   +4 more
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