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B is for Boar

open access: yes, 2020
Almost anywhere one went in the vast territories of the British Empire, one was likely to find boar. Whether they were introduced as domestic pigs that went feral, or whether they were an indigenous population of Sus scrofa, boar were everywhere, and ...
Annaliese Claydon (15433106)
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Dietary Bromide, Magnesium and Tryptophan and Immunocastration on Growth Performance and Behaviour of Entire Male Pigs

open access: yesAnimals
The growth of boars may be inhibited because of aggressive and/or sexual activity. Dietary Br, Mg and tryptophan (Trp) as well as immunocastration may reduce these behaviours. In Experiment 1, 200 boars and 40 barrows were allocated to six groups of four
Frank R. Dunshea   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a genomic platform for analysis of wild boar and suiforme diversity and evolution

open access: yes, 2008
The pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) was domesticated from Sus scrofa, the wild boar, 9,000 years ago and studies utilizing mitochrondrial DNA analysis indicate that this occurred through multiple independent events around the world (Central Europe, Italy ...
G. Semiadi   +24 more
core   +1 more source

M87-083: Amber Colored Boar

open access: yes, 2016
Glass/crystal boar. The boar is clear and amber in color and the body of the boar is largely undefined. The sculpture depicts the body of the boar with tusks and a small tail. The glass is creased in a manner to mimic the musculature of the boar.

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Wildlife in cities: from drivers of adjustment to management

open access: yes
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Marufa Sultana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Wapiti (Cervus elaphus) Browsing Stimulate the Chemical Defense of Taxus cuspidata—A Case of Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We study that browsing by wapiti reduces the growth of saplings, and it develop chemical defenses to prevent themselves browsed again. These results reduce our concern about wapiti browse T. cuspidate saplings, and provide basic data for the study of the interaction between them, and also provide theoretical basis for the population restoration and ...
Jianan Feng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Boar in Stesichorus

open access: yes, 2003
The boar in fr.44, likely the Caledonian boar, is probably represented as rooting for food, a behavior trait that was known to Aristotle.
George Huxley
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Disentangling Multitrophic Interactions: How Vegetation Cover, Wild Boar, Deer, and Predators Shape Rodents Activity and Acorn Dispersal

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Vegetation cover promotes rodent activity and acorn dispersal, while wild boars exert a direct negative effect on mice. Conversely, deer and predators displayed no significant impact on rodent behavior. These results identify wild boars as the main disruptors of rodent‐mediated forest regeneration.
David Notario Rincón   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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