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Ultrasound call detection in capybara [PDF]

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
The vocal repertoire of some animal species has been considered a non-invasive tool to predict distress reactivity. In rats ultrasound emissions were reported as distress indicator. Capybaras[ vocal repertoire was reported recently and seems to have ultrasound calls, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Nogueira, Selene S.C., Barros, Kamila S., Almeida, Márcio H., Pedroza, Janine P., Nogueira Filho, Sérgio L.G., Tokumaru, Rosana S.   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Valores hematológicos de capivaras (Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris) criadas em cativeiro no município de Botucatu, SP Hematological values of captive capybara (Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris) in Botucatu county, São paulo, SP, Brazil

Ciência Rural, 2000
Utilizaram-se onze capivaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), cinco machos e seis fêmeas, sadias, com dois anos de idade, criadas em regime de cativeiro na Fazenda Experimental Lageado da FMVZ - UNESP de Botucatu - SP, submetidas à anestesia dissociativa com
Maid Eliane Arouca, Luciana Batalha de Miranda, Raimundo Sousa Lopes, Regina Kiomi Takahira, Aguemi Kohayagawa, Paulo César Ciarlini, Eunice Oba   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution

, 2013
Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, it remains an open question what adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion.
Huttner, Wieland B, Kalinka, Alex T., Kelava, Iva, Lewitus, Eric, Tomancak, Pavel   +4 more
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Brazilian Spotted Fever Prevention through a Nonlethal Capybara Population Control Strategy

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION: Brazilian spotted fever (BSF), a lethal tick-borne Rickettsioses (2000 - 2018 >600 human deaths) involving synanthropic capybara as host.
Derek Andrew Rosenfield, Gina Polo, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informal supply chains of wild meat from rural Amazonia and food security in an urban center

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Iquitos, the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon, is a hub in the regional supply chain of wild meat and supplies urban consumers. Studies on wild meat consumption have focused primarily on markets, limiting the scope of species considered to those that are economically valuable and potential inferences from those data.
Fiorella Briceño Huerta, Michael P. Gilmore, Mark Bowler, Brian M. Griffiths   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Presence of neutralizing antibodies to Orthopoxvirus in Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) in Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
Cantagalo virus is a strain of vaccinia virus (genus Orthopoxvirus) and the etiological agent of an important vesicopustular disease that affects dairy cows and milkers in Brazil.
André Victor Barbosa, Maria Luiza G Medaglia, Herbert S Soares, Jociane C Quixabeira-Santos, Solange M Gennari, Clarissa R Damaso   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Record of Capybara (Rodentia: Caviidae: Hydrochoerinae) from the Pleistocene of San Diego County, California with Remarks on Their Biogeography and Dispersal in the Pleistocene of Western North America

Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, Palaeontology, 2022
We describe a new species of capybara from late Pleistocene deposits (Rancholabrean NALMA) in northern San Diego County, California, USA which tentatively dates to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 interglacial (~130 ka to 80 ka).
Richard White, Jim Mead, Gary Morgan, Thomas A. Deméré   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meat and carcass characteristics of free-living capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris). [PDF]

, 2017
This study aimed to evaluate carcass and meat characteristics of free‐living capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) from agricultural areas of Grande Dourados, MS, Brazil.
FELIX, G. A., FERNANDES, A. R. M., GARCIA, R. G., LIMA, K. A. O., PAZ, I. C. de L. A., PINHEIRO, M. S., PIOVEZAN, U., REZENDE, M. A.   +7 more
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Capybara Ranching for Amazonia? [PDF]

Oryx, 1979
Cattle ranching for beef is slowly spreading in the Amazonian flood-plains and could lead to a serious loss of wildlife habitats. The author suggests that the indigenous capybara could be a satisfactory alternative for ranching, and one that would not require swamps or areas that are flooded seasonally to be drained.
openaire   +1 more source

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source