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Botulism type C outbreak in free-ranging wild birds in a public urban park in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state, Brazil. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Vet J
Siconelli MJL   +5 more
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Predation and spatial connectivity interact to shape ecosystem resilience to an ongoing regime shift. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Olin AB   +7 more
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Classification of the cormorants of the world

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2014
Relationships among the 40 or so extant species of cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) have been obscured by their morphological similarities, many of which have recently been shown to be the result of convergent evolution. Previous attempts to derive an evolutionarily justifiable classification for this group of birds using osteological and ...
Hamish Spencer, Martyn Kennedy
exaly   +3 more sources

Plumage and Ecology of Cormorants

Zoologica Africana, 1975
The paper draws on data attending the etho-ecology of four species of cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) in support of an hypothesis for the adaptive significance of the predominantly dark plumage of these birds. It is suggested that a dark plumage, primarily by being most receptive to solar radiation, assists cormorants in supplementing metabolic heat for
Siegfried, W.R.   +3 more
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Night Fishing with Cormorants

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, 2009
This animation is a very loose and abstract meditation, inspired in part by the 17th Century Japanese screen painting by Kano Tanyu, Night Fishing with Cormorants, and by the very stark and beautiful novel of Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks. I am not telling a naturalistic story in this piece, but rather I have tried to make a work that can hold in equal ...
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Cormorant

2022
Michael Schaub, Marc Kéry
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Cormorant

How does prejudice grow and mutate? What does intolerance, when transferred from human beings onto animals, do to those creatures? And what, in return, does it do to us? Cormorant is the gripping story of a 'greedy' bird hated across the world, the object of global conflict between the fishing industry on the one hand and environmental science on the ...
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The Cormorant Hunters

1990
Abstract In this selection Frank Ellana (1904-), a King Island Eskimo, tells of a different kind of wilderness-the wild reaches of the human heart-in a tale of infidelity and murder that could have been taken from Greek mythology of drama, so intensely tragic is it.
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Pharacrocoracidae - Cormorants

1949
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, Issue 20, pp.
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