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Remote monitoring of short‐term body mass variation in savanna ungulates
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Volume 9, Issue 5, Page 707-723, October 2023., 2023 Large herbivores in seasonal environments often experience mass variation due to temporal changes in the availability of critical resources like water and forage, as well as due to breeding events. We used mineral‐baited scales and camera traps to automatedly track the body mass variation of three bovid species through a period of wet and dry seasons ...
Nicolás Fuentes‐Allende +4 more
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African Journal of Ecology, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 399-410, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Fruit bats provide vital ecosystem services through seed dispersal aiding secondary forest regeneration. However, fruit bat species are often persecuted by fruit‐growing farmers due to perceived and actual crop damage. In this study, we investigated the dietary components of Epomophorous wahlbergi, Epomophorous crypturus and Rousettus ...
Vusani Mphethe +6 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2023., 2023 Wildlife trade is a multibillion‐dollar industry and is also largely fueled by the demand for exotic pets. We document, in Japan, the recent exotic pet café phenomenon, and recorded 3793 individuals belonging to 419 different species present in these cafés including many threatened species and several Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...
Marie Sigaud +2 more
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Taking flight: An ecological, evolutionary and genomic perspective on bat telomeres
Molecular Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 23, Page 6053-6068, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Over 20% of all living mammals are bats (order Chiroptera). Bats possess extraordinary adaptations including powered flight, laryngeal echolocation and a unique immune system that enables them to tolerate a diversity of viral infections without presenting clinical disease symptoms. They occupy multiple trophic niches and environments globally.
Megan L. Power +3 more
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Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics
Biological Reviews, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 2694-2715, December 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The crisis generated by the emergence and pandemic spread of COVID‐19 has thrown into the global spotlight the dangers associated with novel diseases, as well as the key role of animals, especially wild animals, as potential sources of pathogens to humans.
Silviu O. Petrovan +24 more
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Biotropica, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 1063-1070, July 2021., 2021 We determined the effects of land‐use changes on the guild of fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) on Mt. Kilimanjaro, a biodiversity hotspot in Tanzania. We recorded highest species richness in lower montane forest and Chagga homegardens but bats used also coffee plantations and maize fields.
Anna‐Valeska Bettina Vogeler +1 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2023 Background Bats are increasingly being recognized as important hosts for viruses, some of which are zoonotic and carry the potential for spillover within human and livestock populations.
Matthew R. Wood +3 more
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Morphology of the lingual papillae in the Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus)
Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica, 2012 The dorsal lingual surface of the Egyptian rousette bat was examined by scanning electron microscopy. Filiform, fungiform and vallate papillae were observed. The filiform papillae were distributed over the entire dorsal surface of the tongue. The filiform papillae notably differed in morphology by their location on the tongue and could be classified ...
EMURA, Shoichi +2 more
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A novel poxvirus isolated from an Egyptian fruit bat in Israel
Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 587-590, August 2020., 2020 An Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) from the Zoological Gardens, at Tel Aviv, Israel, showed pox‐like clinical symptoms including vesicular and nodular skin lesions on the wings. Cell culture isolation, histopathology, electron microscopy and molecular analysis, revealed the presence of a novel bat poxvirus.
Dan David +7 more
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Marburg and Ebola Virus Infections Elicit a Complex, Muted Inflammatory State in Bats
Viruses, 2023 The Marburg and Ebola filoviruses cause a severe, often fatal, disease in humans and nonhuman primates but have only subclinical effects in bats, including Egyptian rousettes, which are a natural reservoir of Marburg virus.
Anitha D. Jayaprakash +11 more
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