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Increasing Population Status of Broad-Snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris) Based on Sustainable Use Strategies in a Managed Protected Area in Santa Fe, Argentina [PDF]
AnimalsPeople and crocodilians have engaged in interactions since the earliest human settlements. After many years of escalating non-regulated use, coupled with emerging threats such as habitat modification, environmental pollution, and the exponential growth ...
Pablo Ariel Siroski +3 more
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Disturbed areas promote more parental care and less nesting preference in females of broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) – ADDENDUM [PDF]
Animal WelfareRafael Sa Leitao Barboza +3 more
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Animals, 2021 Animal-based measures are the measure of choice in animal welfare assessment protocols as they can often be applied completely independently to the housing or production system employed.
Leisha Hewitt, Alison Small
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Frontiers in Toxicology, 2022 Surface and groundwater of the Cape Fear River basin in central and coastal North Carolina is contaminated with high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Elevated levels of PFAS have also been found in blood of fish and wildlife from the
T. C. Guillette +4 more
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Golf course living leads to a diet shift for American alligators
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Human‐driven land use change can fundamentally alter ecological communities, especially the diversity and abundance of large‐bodied predators. Yet, despite the important roles large‐bodied predators play in structuring communities through feeding, there ...
Adam E. Rosenblatt +6 more
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Animals, 2023 To assess skin color change in alligators, we maintained animals in differently lighted environments and also measured skin colors in an ontogenetic series of wild animals. Juvenile alligators maintained in black enclosures exhibited a gradual lightening
Cadre Francis +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Eggshell morphology is a valuable indicator of the local conditions within the nests of modern crocodilians and birds. In contrast to these latter, the anatomical structure of the eggshells of most crocodilian species is practically unknown.
E. Martín Hechenleitner +4 more
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Sound categorization by crocodilians
iScience, 2023 Rapidly sorting the information contained in a stream of stimuli is a major challenge for animals. One cognitive mechanism for achieving this goal is categorization, where the receiving individual considers a continuous variation of a stimulus as belonging to discrete categories.
Thévenet, Julie +7 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Land-use conversion and resulting habitat fragmentation can affect the source(s) of primary productivity that fuels food webs and alter their structure in ways that leads to biodiversity loss. We investigated the effects of landscape modification on food
André C. Pereira +5 more
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Genomic evidence of adaptive evolution in the reptilian SOCS gene family [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The suppressor of the cytokine signaling (SOCS) family of proteins play an essential role in inhibiting cytokine receptor signaling by regulating immune signal pathways.
Tian Xia +4 more
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