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Des violences de masse et des femmes : enquête au temps des campagnes d’Alexandre en Grèce et en Orient

Kentron, 2023
While pitched battles were only a matter of men, the sieges under Alexander, particularly numerous and murderous, contributed to place non-combatants, and especially the women, at the heart of armed conflicts.
Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros
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Interspecific heavy metal variations and bioaccumulation in peafowl (Pavo cristatus)

Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2023
The present study was designed for biomonitoring of heavy metals such as lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn) and cobalt (Co) at three selected wildlife parks of Punjab.
Sajida Arooj, Shabana Naz, Aniqa Qaisar, Sania Satti, Alina Razzaq, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Mohammed Fahad Albeshr, Mehwish Durrani, Sifa Dai, Rifat Ullah Khan   +9 more
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Increased Breeding Frequency Mitigates Inbreeding Depression in Peromyscus in Captivity. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Huynh-Dam KT, Jaeger C, Tsomos A, Norman D, Kiaris H.   +4 more
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Conservation of rodents ex situ: experience of keeping the northern mole vole (Ellobius talpinus) in captivity

Theriologia Ukrainica, 2023
The article presents data on the biology of Ellobius talpinus kept in captivity. The creation of semi-underground conditions in terrarium and long-term observations of a group of vole moles during 2003–2014 are described.
Marina Korobchenko
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Boring Lizards: Ludic Management, Affect and Ambivalence

Cinergie, 2023
This chapter utilises Game Studies, Animal Studies and Affect Studies approaches to explore how videogame adaptation Jurassic World: Evolution (Frontier 2018) mediates Jurassic World’s (2015) themes of captivity, anxiety and boredom in a time of ...
Merlyn Seller
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Effect of Geography and Captivity on Scat Bacterial Communities in the Imperiled Channel Island Fox

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
With developing understanding that host-associated microbiota play significant roles in individual health and fitness, taking an interdisciplinary approach combining microbiome research with conservation science is increasingly favored. Here we establish
Nicole E. Adams, Madeleine A. Becker, Suzanne Edmands   +2 more
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Nutritional and health status of woolly monkeys [PDF]

, 2008
Woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha and L. flavicauda) are threatened species in the wild and in captivity. Numerous zoological institutions have historically kept Lagothrix lagotricha spp., but only a few of them have succeeded in breeding populations.
Ange-van Heugten, K.D., Jansen, W.L., Timmer, S., Verstegen, M.W.A.   +3 more
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Swimming with captive dolphins: current debates and post-experience dissonance [PDF]

, 2007
Dolphins have widespread contemporary appeal and anthropomorphic social representations of dolphins have fuelled a growing desire in tourist populations to seek interaction with them.
Ackerman, Adelman, Barney, Beardsworth, British Broadcasting Association (BBC), Broad, Broom, Bryld, Bulbeck, CAPS, Chin, CITES, Cloke, Cochrane, Crang, Curtin, Davis, DeMares, Desmond, Dierauf, Dimopoulos, Dold, Evans, Fjellman, Foxhall, Franklin, Frohoff, Frohoff, Frohoff, Hanes, Hediger, Higham, Horne, Hughes, Hughes, Johnson, Kestin, Kestin, Kestin, Kirtland, Kyngdon, Lockyer, Marine Connection, Marine Connection, Marine Connection, Markowitz, Mazet, McBain, MORI, Morris, Moustakas, Muloin, Myers, Nollman, Orams, Orams, Patton, Reeves, Relph, Rose, Samuels, Schanzel, Small, Small, Stephan, Suvantola, The Travel Foundation, The Whale Foundation, Thomson, Thomsons (TUI), Trone, Wang, Waples, WDCS, WDCS, WDCS, Webb, Webb, Wilson, Woodley, WSPA, Zilber   +81 more
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The Effects of Onychectomy (Declawing) on Antebrachial Myology across the Full Body Size Range of Exotic Species of Felidae

Animals, 2023
While people are familiar with the practice of declawing domestic cats, “onychectomy”, as it is also known, is also performed on non-domesticated species, including pantherines, to prolong their use for entertainment purposes.
Lara L. Martens, Sarah Jessica Piersanti, Arin Berger, Nicole A. Kida, Ashley R. Deutsch, Kathryn Bertok, Lauren Humphries, Angela Lassiter, Adam Hartstone-Rose   +8 more
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Risposte comportamentali di <em>Crocidura leucodon</em> (Hermann, 1780) (Insectivora, Soricidae) ai meccanismi antipredatori di alcuni Artropodi

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2004
<strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Behavioural responses of <em>Crocidura leucodon</em> (Insectivora, Soricidae) to Arthropod preys with various antipredatory defenses</strong> Two wild specimens of <em>Crocidura
Teresa Bonacci, Gaetano Aloise, Pietro Brandmayr, Mara Cagnin, Tullia Zetto Brandmayr   +4 more
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