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Comparative assessment of Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) gut microbiome diversity and composition throughout transition from captivity to wild [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiomesMicrobiomes play a key role in the health of animal hosts. To improve conservation translocation programs like headstarting, it is necessary to consider how the structure of these programs impact the host-associated microbiome.
Cameron R. Forehand +14 more
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Los relatos de cautivo. Apuntes para una nómina del género
Criticón, 2023 Christian captives of islam occupied the literary scene of the Golden Age, showing up in novels of very different kinds during the years of war in the Mediterranean.
Juan Cerezo Soler
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Does the stress response predict the ability of wild birds to adjust to short-term captivity? A study of the rock pigeon (Columbia livia) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Although the transfer of wild animals to captivity is crucial for conservation purposes, this process is often challenging because some species or individuals do not adjust well to captive conditions. Chronic stress has been identified as a major concern
Frédéric Angelier +3 more
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Mortality Causes in Captive Cantabrian capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) in Spain
Animals, 2023 The Cantabrian capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) is one of the most severely threatened subspecies of capercaillie. Its current population range is restricted to a small area of the Cantabrian Mountains (northwestern Spain), with only around ...
Alberto García-Rodríguez +10 more
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Promoting Good Nonhuman Primate Welfare outside Regular Working Hours
Animals, 2023 Promoting good primate welfare outside of daylight hours is an important task. The responsibility to provide a complex environment and environmental enrichment is an essential element of primate wellbeing programs that should be approached from a 24-h ...
Sabrina Brando +2 more
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Animals, 2021 The environmental conditions of captive hominoid primates can lead to modifications in several aspects of their behavior, including locomotion, which can then alter the morphological characteristics of certain anatomical regions, such as the knee or ...
Aroa Casado +5 more
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The Patterns and Causes of Dermatitis in Terrestrial and Semi-Aquatic Mammalian Wildlife
Animals, 2021 Causative disease and stress agents which manifest as dermatitis in mammals have varying effects on individual animals, from benign irritation and inflammation, to causing morbidity and even mortality.
Elise M. Ringwaldt +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The scyphozoan Pelagia noctiluca has potential value for research and a wide variety of industrial applications. However, its holoplanktonic life cycle makes it difficult to maintain a permanent stock in aquaculture, unlike the continuous supply of newly-
Ainara Ballesteros +7 more
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Orangulas: effect of scheduled visual enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) [PDF]
, 2020 Captivity may have adverse effects on captive great apes, as they spend much more of their time engaged in foraging and other activities in the wild. Enrichment interventions have the potential to alleviate the adverse effects of captivity by introducing
Bach, Lars A +10 more
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Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021 This article rethinks critically a landmark work of the twentieth century—The Captive Mind, by Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. Published in 1953, the book sought to understand human subjectivity, or, as it put it, “how the human mind functions,” in Cold ...
Milen Jissov
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