Biology, 2021 Natural selection has favored the evolution of different capabilities that allow animals to obtain food—e.g., the development of senses for improving prey/food detection.
Irene Saavedra, Luisa Amo
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High-Tech Training for Birds of Prey. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2021 Raptors are some of the most at-risk groups of birds in the world and saving these top predators is essential for maintaining the health of many ecosystems. After hospitalization, raptors are often released when muscular recovery is still unfitting when they are unable to hunt efficiently and are at risk of dying from starvation within a few days.
Granati G, Cichella F, Lucidi P.
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Who’s for dinner? Bird prey diversity and choice in the great evening bat, Ia io
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The mysterious predator–prey interaction between bats and nocturnally migrating birds is a very rare and incredible process in natural ecosystems. So far only three avivorous bat species, including two noctule bats (Nyctalus lasiopterus and Nyctalus ...
Lixin Gong
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Rehabilitating wild birds of prey following ocular trauma – should foveal assessment include spectral-domain optical coherence tomography? [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchBackground The fovea is an area of increased cone density in the avian retina and provides a high level of visual acuity. Damage to the fovea may negatively impact survival of birds of prey in the wild. The goal of this prospective, descriptive study was
A. K. Shukla +4 more
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The foraging behaviour of granivorous birds: a mechanistic perspective. [PDF]
1. The functional response, i.e. the feeding rate as a function of prey density, links resource availability to population level demographic rates. The functional response is often central to behavioural-based population models that predict the effect ...
Baker, David J.
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First description of movement and ranging behavior of the Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) from Serbia using GPS satellite tracking [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2021 Understanding the movement pattern and ranging behavior of the Griffon vulture population in Serbia is of great importance for prioritizing conservation action.
Hribšek Irena +3 more
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The Role of Birds of Prey in West Nile Virus Epidemiology [PDF]
Vaccines, 2020 Núria Busquets +2 more
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The importance of predator behaviour on risk to prey [PDF]
, 2008 Both predator and prey have evolved to maximise reproductive success by balancing food intake with risk. There has been a bias in predator-prey studies, where prey behaviour has been examined in detail, yet predators are assumed to follow simplistic ...
Ioannou, Christos
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New insight into spatial ecology of Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) on the Balkans provides opportunity for focusing conservation actions for a threatened social scavenger [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The knowledge in the behaviour and movement of endangered species is of key importance for the precise targeting and assessing the efficiency of nature conservation actions, especially considering vultures, which explore vast areas to locate ephemeral ...
Hristo Peshev +14 more
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Sex ratio and relatedness in the Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) population of Serbia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Once a widespread species across the region of Southeast Europe, the Griffon vulture is now confined to small and isolated populations across the Balkan Peninsula.
Slobodan Davidović +5 more
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