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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi, Carolina Di Patti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Matteo Cammarata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton [PDF]

, 2016
Members of the mammalian family Felidae (extant and extinct cats) are grossly phenotypically similar, but display a 300-fold range in body size, from less than 1 kg to more than 300 kg.
Alvarez, Andrew R. Cuff, Anjali Goswami, Antón, Argot, Bertram, Biewener, Biewener, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Carbone, Carlson, Cuff, Day, Doube, Ewer, Fabre, Felsenstein, Garland, German, Gonyea, Gonyea, Goswami, Goswami, Goswami, Goswami, Gál, Halpert, Hammer, Head, Hutchinson, Ilin, Irschick, Jenkins, John R. Hutchinson, Johnson, Jones, Jones, Klingenberg, Klingenberg, Koob, Leyhausen, Long, Long, MacDonald, Macpherson, Macpherson, Marcela Randau, Martins, Mattern, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meloro, Molnar, Moon, Muller, Narita, Nyakatura, Nyakatura, Olson, Paradis, Peigné, Pierce, Pierce, Piras, Polly, Pridmore, Revell, Samuels, Schilling, Shapiro, Shapiro, Slater, Slater, Smit, Stephanie E. Pierce, Sunquist, Turner, Walmsley, Warton, Zhang   +85 more
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Mandible size and shape in extant Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia): A tool for taxonomy and ecogeography

, 2017
The family Ursidae is currently one of the taxonomic groups with the lowest number of species among Carnivora. Extant bear species exhibit broad ecological adaptations both at inter- and intraspecific level, and taxonomic issues within this family remain
C. Meloro, G. Guidarelli, P. Colangelo, P. Ciucci, A. Loy   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lynx canadensis (Carnivora: Felidae)

Mammalian Species, 2019
: Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792, commonly called the Canada lynx, is a medium size felid and is the second largest of the four species in the genus Lynx. It is distributed throughout the boreal forest of most of Canada and Alaska and across portions of the ...
Maxime Lavoie, A. Renard, S. Larivière
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Morphology of Guard Hairs in Amazonian Marsupials: Intergeneric Variation, Habitat and Habit Association in a Phylogenetic Framework of the Order Didelphimorphia

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cuticle and medulla of guard hairs exhibit distinct morphological patterns among mammalian species. To investigate this variability in marsupials from the Brazilian Amazon, we analysed guard hairs from nine Didelphimorphia species and incorporated data from an additional 25 didelphid species.
Matheus M. Bitencourt, Ana Cristina Mendes‐Oliveira, Gleomar F. Maschio, Maria Clara S. Ribeiro, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cave of La Chěnelaz (Hostias, Ain, France). The large Mammals of the layer 6b [PDF]

, 2002
More than 3600 remains of large Mammals have been discovered in layer 6b of the cave of La Chenelaz, about 33\u27000 years ago. The identified taxa belong to the orders of Insectivora, Carnivora, Lagomorpha, Rodentia, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. The
M. Schweizer
core   +1 more source

A permanent host shift of rabies virus from Chiroptera to Carnivora associated with recombination

Scientific Reports, 2017
Bat virus host shifts can result in the spread of diseases with significant effects. The rabies virus (RABV) is able to infect almost all mammals and is therefore a useful model for the study of host shift mechanisms.
N. Ding, Dong-Shuai Xu, Yuan-Yuan Sun, Hong-bin He, Cheng-qiang He   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using incentive payments to promote human–carnivore coexistence

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract For many large carnivores, minimizing the financial burden they impose on local people is critical to their conservation. Incentive‐based programs that provide people with financial benefits for taking pro‐conservation actions or achieving conservation goals are a promising tool for promoting human–carnivore coexistence. Although the number of
Adam Pekor, Ingela Jansson, Ololotu Munka, William Ole Seki, Sally Capper, Bernard Kissui, Göran Bostedt, Camilla Sandström, Dennis Rentsch, Travis Gallo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographic risks to functional groups of mammals and birds from habitat loss in Mexico

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a need to quantify the impact of habitat loss due to anthropogenic factors on different aspects of biodiversity, such as functional trait diversity represented by functional groups (FGs). We developed a metric to assess the weighted risk of loss of habitat for 33 FGs of mammals and 36 FGs of birds in Mexico based on potential ...
Fernando Mayani‐Parás, Francisco Botello, Claudia E. Moreno, Griselda Escalona‐Segura, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stereotypic route tracing in captive Carnivora is predicted by species-typical home range sizes and hunting styles

, 2016
In captive conditions (e.g. zoos), some Carnivora species typically show negligible stereotypic behaviour (SB) and reproduce successfully, while others tend to reproduce poorly and be very stereotypic.
Jeanette Kroshko, R. Clubb, L. Harper, Emma L. Mellor, A. Moehrenschlager, G. Mason   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source