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Emerging threat of avian influenza to the world's vultures
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Jon Morant +3 more
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Vultures are the only obligate terrestrial scavenging vertebrates, playing critical roles in sanitation and ecosystem services. However, the breeding biology of New World vultures remains poorly understood.
Murilo Carneiro Silva +2 more
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Self-Injurious Behavior in a Captive, Malimprinted Coragyps atratus [PDF]
Lurch is a Coragyps atratus who was raised in captivity and imprinted on humans. He was an education animal at the Silver Springs Zoo until its closure.
Swartout, Brittany
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Assessing sustainable lethal take for great blue heron in the northeastern United States
We used Prescribed Take Level (PTL) models to estimate sustainable take limits for great blue heron and aid depredation permitting decisions by the USFWS in the northeastern United States. The PTL models suggested that current lethal take levels are sustainable and that cumulative authorized regional take should not exceed 2,650 individuals per year ...
Eric G. LeFlore +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Taphonomy of bones remains from pellets of Coragyps atratus (black vulture) in the northwest of the argentinian Patagonia [PDF]
Existen diversos estudios actualísticos en tafonomía sobre restos de presas de diferentes especies de aves raptoras. Sin embargo, este tipo de trabajos en aves carroñeras ha sido escasamente considerado hasta el momento en Argentina, a pesar que ellas ...
Ballejo, Fernando +2 more
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Introduction: Waste management conditions by some industries in Bogotá and the dumping of waste by the population adjacent to them, is a problem that directly affects and impacts on the environmental and public health conditions, where the birdlife is ...
Gaona, Luis A. +3 more
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Treatment of pressure gun fractures and release in the wild of a caracara (Caracara plancus)
Abstract This report aims to describe the treatment progression of a free‐living southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus plancus) with gunshot‐related fractures. Radiographic examination revealed a comminuted fracture in the mid‐diaphysis of the humerus with displaced fragments, a comminuted fracture of the proximal third of the radius shaft, and ...
Guilherme Rech Cassanego +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Self-Injurious Behavior of a Captive Coragyps atratus [PDF]
As zoos become more numerous the challenge for keepers to ensure animal well-being and identify adverse behaviors becomes immense. Intelligent animals in captivity have a higher likelihood of participating in selfharm activities compared to their wild ...
Bouchenot, Jennifer
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Contribuição à avifauna observada na praia do Mar Grosso em Laguna, SC
A praia do mar Grosso está localizada na área urbano do município de Laguna em Santa Catarina. De 06 a 14 de janeira de 2001 foi realizado o levantamento qualitativo da avifauna local.
Roges Roveda Vinhola da Silva
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Scavenging and predation by Black Vultures Coragyps atratus at a South American sea lion breeding colony [PDF]
Many animal species benefit from resources provided by other species. Such species may develop or coevolve particular interspecific relationships (for example: competition, depredation and mutualism).
Pavés, HJ, Espinoza, CI, Schlatter, RP
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