Genomic Signatures in Maned Three-Toed Sloths From Ancient to Recent Environmental Changes in Brazil's Threatened Atlantic Forest. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT Environmental and climatic changes have shaped the evolutionary trajectories of natural populations, leaving genomic signatures that reflect how species respond to these shifts and their impacts on genetic health. While these insights are essential for unravelling evolutionary histories and informing conservation strategies, studies on ...
Arantes LS +5 more
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Post-release ecology of rehabilitated Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths in Panamá
Tropical Zoology, 2023 The field of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation continues to grow as human expansion increases the rate of deforestation in Latin America. Sloths (Bradypus spp.
Chelsea Morton +4 more
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Identification and characterization of satellite DNAs in two-toed sloths of the genus Choloepus (Megalonychidae, Xenarthra) [PDF]
, 2020 Choloepus, o único gênero existente da família Megalonychidae, é composto por duas espécies vivas de preguiças de dois dedos: Choloepus didactylus e C. hoffmanni.
Radarane Santos Sena +5 more
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Evolutionary Specializations in the Venous Anatomy of the Two-Toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus): Insights from CT-scan 3D Reconstructions [PDF]
AnimalsBaptiste Mulot, Antoine Leclerc
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Graellsia, 2019 El perezoso bayo Bradypus variegatus (Schinz, 1825) es un mamífero monomórfico, de ontogenia craneal poco conocida. En este estudio analizamos la alometría estática entre tamaño y forma, utilizando 21 especímenes diferentes de edades diversas.
P. M. Parés-Casanova
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Gender and Age, but Not Visual Context, Impact Wildlife Attitudes and Perceptions of Animals in Zoos
Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2023 People’s attitudes toward wildlife may impact their behaviors in support of conservation. We surveyed people in the United States to determine if gender, age, or visual contexts commonly seen in zoos impacted wildlife attitudes and perceptions of animals
Andrew C. Alba +4 more
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The ancestral eutherian karyotype is present in Xenarthra. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2006 Molecular studies have led recently to the proposal of a new super-ordinal arrangement of the 18 extant Eutherian orders. From the four proposed super-orders, Afrotheria and Xenarthra were considered the most basal. Chromosome-painting studies with human
Marta Svartman +2 more
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Estudio comparativo de la anatomía de las especies perezoso de dos dedos choloepus hoffmanni y choloepus didactylus [PDF]
, 2021 Los perezosos didáctilos Choloepus Hoffmann y Choloepus didactylus, hacen parte del mismo género y del suborden Folivora. Estos animales habitan estrictamente en los árboles, evitando así depredadores terrestres como el jaguar, la anaconda, el puma ...
Atehortúa Muñoz, Daniela +1 more
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Ciencias Ambientales, 2022 El perezoso de dos dedos (Choloepus hoffmanni) y el de tres dedos (Bradypus variegatus), hoy considerados símbolos nacionales de Costa Rica, fueron estudiados durante 13 años (2004-2016) en una finca de cacao y sus alrededores dentro del proyecto ...
Christopher Vaughan
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Antimicrobial resistance and virulence profiles of Enterobacterales isolated from two-finger and three-finger sloths (Choloepus hoffmanni and Bradypus variegatus) of Costa Rica [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Wildlife has been recently recognized as an environmental reservoir for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, less information on this topic is available in animals released back into the wild after rehabilitation in wildlife facilities ...
Matilde Fernandes +9 more
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