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Feeding Practices and Welfare of Zoo‐Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) on a Global Scale

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We collected feeding and stereotypy information on 702 giraffes from 146 zoos from all over the world. Less appropriate diets were linked to more oral stereotypies. ABSTRACT Since giraffe feeding practices have only been reported for European and US facilities, this study aimed to achieve a comprehensive overview of the current giraffe feeding ...
Rosalyn Pardave, Gernot Osthoff, Marcus Clauss, Francois Deacon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Animals can dramatically alter ecosystem structure and function through the cycling and transport of nutrients in their waste. While birds are particularly capable of influencing nutrient cycles due to their high mobility, abundance, metabolism and functional diversity,
Linsey Chen, Alexander S. Flecker, Ethan S. Duvall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive success under constraints: Does increased maternal activity during lactation offset poor habitat and individual quality in an income breeder?

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Human‐induced environmental modifications may alter forage access and, hence, how animals manage energy trade‐offs during critical periods. Reproduction, especially lactation, is the most energetically costly process for female mammals.
L. Monica Trondrud, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Nadège C. Bonnot, Nicolas Morellet, Yannick Chaval, Arnaud Bonnet, Bruno Lourtet, A. J. Mark Hewison   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infections proliferate during amphibian terrestrial dormancy

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The spread and impact of wildlife pathogens is often seasonal, and identifying the season(s) of highest impact can be critical to biodiversity and public health management.
David R. Daversa, Robert L. Grasso, Molly Posta, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, H. Bradley Shaffer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

High thermal plasticity, low heritability and constant directional selection on breeding phenology in a viviparous ectotherm

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our findings reveal that breeding phenology of the common lizard is shaped by strong thermal plasticity, body size effects, constant selection for earlier parturition, but low heritability. This suggests that phenological responses to climate change in this species, and likely in other squamates, will predominantly arise through plastic rather than ...
Théo Bodineau, Alexis Rutschmann, Jean‐François Le Galliard, Manuel Massot, Murielle Richard, Jean Clobert, Sandrine Meylan, Pierre de Villemereuil   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing an evidence‐based model to implement co‐governance

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Governments are seeking innovative ways to address complex policy issues in increasingly fragmented and fiscally constrained service contexts. Co‐governance is a relatively new mechanism for facilitating collective decision‐making between government and other stakeholders. Effective co‐governance can be difficult to establish and resource‐ and
Shona Marie Bates, Ciara Smyth, Ilan Katz, Bingqin Li, Fiona Haigh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frequency of Klebsiella spp. and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Clinically Healthy Captive Night Monkeys (Aotus nancymaae) in the Peruvian Amazon. [PDF]

J Med Primatol
Salazar A, Sanchez-Perea N, Díaz F, Del Aguila M, Cuicapuza D, Quevedo-Urday M, Salvatierra G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Induced triple clutching in captivity for three falcon species: Common Kestrel (<i>Falco tinnunculus</i>), Saker Falcon (<i>Falco cherrug</i>) and Peregrine Falcon (<i>Falco peregrinus</i>). [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Petrov R, Valchev A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source