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Comparative Analysis of the Behavior of Llamas Housed in a Research Facility in Response to Different Environmental Enrichment Stimuli. [PDF]

Anim Sci J
ABSTRACT Environmental enrichment (EE) is essential for promoting welfare and reducing atypical behaviors in captive research animals, but we know little about effective EE strategies for llamas (Lama glama). This study evaluated the behavioral responses to EE items provided to llamas housed in a biomedical research facility in Brazil, where they are ...
Brum R, de Abreu Rangel Aguirre A, da Silva KSM.   +2 more
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Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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CRIAÇÃO ANIMAL AGROECOLÓGICA

Revista Brasileira de Agroecologia, 2023
Os sistemas agrícolas convencionais têm promovido desmatamento, emissão de gases de efeito estufa, perda da fertilidade de solos, dependência de insumos com consequente aumento de custos, o êxodo e a masculinização do meio rural.
Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, José Alfredo Bran Agudelo, Fabiellen Cristina Pereira, Gabriela Schenato Bica, Adenor Vicente Wendling, Daniele Cristina Silva Kazama, Shirley Kuhnen   +6 more
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The Work Profiler: Revision and maintenance of a profiling tool for the recently unemployed in the Netherlands

International Social Security Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 109-134, April/June 2023., 2023
Abstract For the public employment services of many Member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, the importance of using profiling tools for job seekers is increasing rapidly in importance. With this trend, there is also widening concern about the risks of an over reliance on such tools.
Martijn A. Wijnhoven, Elise Dusseldorp, Maurice Guiaux, Harriët Havinga   +3 more
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Sleeping accommodations for researchers increase the likelihood of biodiversity inventories in protected areas 在保护区内为科研人员提供住所，可增加创建生物多样性名录的可能性

Integrative Conservation, Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 62-68, March 2023., 2023
Biodiversity assessments are needed to better understand biodiversity distribution and threats in parks. Our results showed that arthropod inventories are more likely if park accommodations are available for researchers. Small investments in providing accommodations may increase biodiversity assessments in parks.
Gabrielly P. Ferreira, Alexsander Z. Antunes, Mariana L. Campagnoli, Alexander V. Christianini   +3 more
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soundClass: An automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 11, Page 2356-2362, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Passive acoustic monitoring, a non‐invasive technique, is increasingly used to study animal populations and habitats at much larger spatial and temporal scales than standard methods. However, easy to apply tools for reliable detection and classification of signals of interest among hundreds or even thousands of hours of recording are still ...
Bruno Silva, Frederico Mestre, Sílvia Barreiro, Pedro J. Alves, José M. Herrera   +4 more
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Eating pizza in prison

American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 221-233, May 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
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A resistência antimicrobiana na produção animal: Alerta no contexto da saúde única

Pubvet, 2022
A resistência antimicrobiana está se agravando ao longo dos últimos anos, sendo um dos principais motivos o uso indiscriminado dos antibióticos na produção animal. Tal problemática estará inserida entre as principais causas de mortalidade e ocasionará um
Caio Ferreira Repik, Ana Carolina Leal da Cruz Lisboa, Bruna Crescenti Tukasan, Raul José Silva Girio   +3 more
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Ovinos deslanados

Agropecuária Catarinense, 2022
O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de avaliar a eficiência produtiva e reprodutiva de um rebanho ovino deslanado para ser criado na pequena propriedade em Rondônia.
Ricardo Gomes de Araújo Pereira, João Avelar Magalhães, Aluízio Ciriaco Tavares, Newton de Lucena Costa, Claudio Ramalho Townsend   +4 more
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Efeito de sistemas de criação no conforto térmico ambiente e no desempenho produtivo de suínos na primavera Effect of different raising systems on the thermal environment comfort and swine productive performance under spring conditions

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2007
Esta pesquisa foi realizada com o objetivo de avaliar os sistemas de criação em camas sobrepostas de maravalha ou de casca de arroz e o sistema tradicional de piso de concreto e sua influência no ambiente térmico (ITGU e temperatura superficial do piso e
Marcelo Bastos Cordeiro, Ilda de Fátima Ferreira Tinôco, Paulo Armando Victoria de Oliveira, Irene Menegali, Maria Clara de Carvalho Guimarães, Fernando da Costa Baêta, Jadir Nogueira da Silva   +6 more
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