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Animal Conservation, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 813-825, December 2023., 2023 Iguanas are native to all Lesser Antillean islands, where they are among the most important keystone species within the threatened Caribbean dry‐forest biome. However, several populations have already become extinct and all but two remaining island populations are under direct threat of hybridization with non‐native iguanas.
M. P. van den Burg +5 more
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What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar?
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 997-1010, November 2023., 2023 Today, expansive C4 grassy biomes exist across central, western, and northern Madagascar. Some researchers have argued that the island's now‐extinct pygmy hippopotamuses belonged to a megaherbivore grazing guild that maintained these grasslands prior to human arrival.
Brooke Erin Crowley +2 more
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 708-740, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019).
Audrey Rousseau, Louis Chartrand
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 12-37, February 2023., 2023 The mutability and physical perfectibility of animal bodies was a scientific and aesthetic preoccupation in nineteenth‐century France, channelling anxieties about class, race and national identity into projects of breeding domestic animals. This essay explores how the animal painter Rosa Bonheur figured an imagined agricultural superabundance through ...
Stephanie Triplett
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Veterinary Dermatology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 53-58, February 2023., 2023 Background – The treatment of canine chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CCLE) variants generally requires immunosuppression, which often results in potentially severe adverse effects. Janus kinase inhibitors, like oclacitinib, might be a valuable treatment option due to their rapid inhibition of the action of interferons known to be relevant in the
Richard G. Harvey +3 more
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Local treatment for canine anal sacculitis: A retrospective study of 33 dogs
Veterinary Dermatology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 426-434, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Background Little information has been published regarding treatment of canine anal sacculitis (AS). Objectives Primary objective: determine the outcomes of AS local treatment at the referral dermatology service of the authors' institution. Secondary objective: determine signalment, body condition score (BCS), stool quality and comorbidities ...
Annette Lundberg +2 more
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Impacts of herbivory by ecological replacements on an island ecosystem
Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 59, Issue 9, Page 2245-2261, September 2022., 2022 Due to a negative correlation in tortoise and skink dietary preferences and minimal overlap in the most frequently consumed taxa, the presence of tortoises is unlikely to have detrimental impacts on Telfair's skinks. Tortoise presence is likely to be beneficial to skinks in the long term by increasing the extent of palm‐rich habitat. Although tortoises
Rosemary J. Moorhouse‐Gann +13 more
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Absence in technicolour: protesting enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue S1, Page 118-134, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This essay examines the political uses of photography in the protests of the Tamil families of the disappeared in northern Sri Lanka. Enforced disappearances have long featured as an instrument of state terror. Their lingering effects have been noted as a significant challenge to transitional justice processes in the aftermath of the island's ...
Vindhya Buthpitiya
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Ceux du lointain de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 257-270, October 2021., 2021 Résumé Le livre de poésie Ceux du lointain (2017) de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné ressort à un versant de la littérature contemporaine qui s’intéresse aux représentations des personnes migrantes. L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence les processus par lesquels l’auteure fait voir au lecteur la vie, et non la survie ou non‐vie, de migrants ...
Dominique Ninanne
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 28, Issue S2, Page 510-514, July 2021., 2021 Abstract A year into the COVID 19 pandemic, I reflect upon walls and the fact that the lockdown has exacerbated humanity's experience of walls in themselves and, guided by an act of pictorial rebelliousness, push for a feminist way of re‐enchanting them both materially and symbolically.
Mar Pérezts
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