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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Facilitating long-term coexistence between people and large carnivores is a persistent, global conservation challenge. Evidence-based decisions to help design and implement programs that promote coexistence between people and carnivores are required ...
Andrea T. Morehouse +5 more
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Contrasting human perceptions of and attitudes towards two threatened small carnivores, Lycalopex fulvipes and Leopardus guigna, in rural communities adjacent to protected areas in Chile [PDF]
, 2018 Indexación: Scopus.The interaction between humans and small carnivores is a phenomenon especially frequent in rural fringes, as is the case of communities surrounding natural areas. In Chile, two species of threatened carnivores, the Darwin's Fox and the
Acuña, F. +7 more
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Evidence of a therapsid scavenger in the Late Permian Karoo Basin, South Africa
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2012 Dicynodonts are an extinct group of herbivorous non-mammalian therapsids (‘mammal-like’ reptiles) that are widely known from terrestrial Permo-Triassic strata throughout Pangaea.
Nicholas Fordyce +2 more
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Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern.
Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi +6 more
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Actualistic Zooarchaeology in Central Western Argentina in Cave and Open Air Contexts
Ethnobiology Letters, 2014 Many cultural and natural processes form the archaeological record. Taphonomy, the study of the transition of organic matter from living contexts (the biosphere) to geological contexts (the lithosphere), aids in understanding how agents and processes ...
Clara Otaola
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‘Neanderthal bone flutes’: simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Punctured extinct cave bear femora were misidentified in southeastern Europe (Hungary/Slovenia) as ‘Palaeolithic bone flutes’ and the ‘oldest Neanderthal instruments’.
Cajus G. Diedrich
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Local attitudes toward Apennine brown bears: Insights for conservation issues [PDF]
, 2019 Human-carnivore coexistence is a multi-faceted issue that requires an understanding of the diverse attitudes and perspectives of the communities living with large carnivores. To inform initiatives that encourage behaviors in line with conservation goals,
Boitani L. +15 more
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Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia [PDF]
, 2015 The decline in carnivore populations is largely exacerbated by lethal methods used to reduce livestock depredation. Financial mechanisms are designed to limit lethal control by reducing the cost of depredation. The media can affect how the general public
Rust, Niki
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2017 Botswana is one of the countries in Southern Africa that pay compensation for human properties damaged by wildlife. Before compensation is paid, a thorough investigation on determining wildlife species that have caused the damage is mandatory. Because of
Lucas P. Rutina +4 more
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Quaternary Science Advances, 2023 The Gravettian site of Fuente del Salín Cave is located in the northern Iberian Peninsula (Cantabrian Region, Spain). In 2016, excavations conducted at the site yielded numerous faunal remains, including mammals and fish.
Angel Blanco-Lapaz +4 more
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