Assessment of the feed additive consisting of taurine (3a370) for Canidae, Felidae, Mustelidae and carnivorous fish for the renewal of its authorisation and the request for a new use in all poultry and all porcine species (Regal B. V.) [PDF]
EFSA JournalFollowing a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of taurine as a nutritional feed additive (functional group: vitamins, pro‐vitamins and chemically well‐defined substances having ...
EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) +22 more
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Life, 2022 Escalating government and commercial efforts to plan and deploy viable manned near-to-deep solar system exploration and habitation over the coming decades now drives next-generation space medicine innovations.
Kevin B. Clark
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Stepping stones to extirpation: Puma patch occupancy thresholds in an urban‐wildland matrix
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Habitat loss and fragmentation are the leading causes of species range contraction and extirpation, worldwide. Factors that predict sensitivity to fragmentation include high trophic level, large body size, and extensive spatial requirements.
David C. Stoner +2 more
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Mycoplasmal infection in a guigna (Leopardus guigna) from central Chile
Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021 Routine blood analysis indicated the presence of Mycoplasma-like bodies in a guigna (Leopardus guigna). Evidence of infection with Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum was found in blood samples using PCR and DNA sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene of ...
Diana Echeverry +8 more
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Two species of Southeast Asian cats in the genus Catopuma with diverging histories: an island endemic forest specialist and a widespread habitat generalist [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Background. The bay cat Catopuma badia is endemic to Borneo, whereas its sister species the Asian golden cat Catopuma temminckii is distributed from the Himalayas and southern China through Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.
Riddhi P. Patel +11 more
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Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan, 2023 The interaction between predators and prey has resulted in population dynamics and played a crucial role in maintaining species' populations within ecosystems. This research aimed to identify distribution and activity patterns to understand prey-predator
Leonardus Adi Saktyari +3 more
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Helminth Fauna in Carnivoran Mammals from Uzbekistan
Zoodiversity, 2023 Helminths, or parasitic worms, are a group of organisms that can infect various animal species, including humans. In Uzbekistan, previous studies on the helminth fauna of mammals have mainly focused on domestic animals and some wildlife species, with ...
A. Safarov +5 more
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First Steps towards the Development of Epigenetic Biomarkers in Female Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)
Life, 2022 Free-ranging cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are generally healthy, whereas cheetahs under human care, such as those in zoological gardens, suffer from ill-defined infectious and degenerative pathologies.
Alexandra Weyrich +5 more
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The scaling of postcranial muscles in cats (Felidae) I: forelimb, cervical, and thoracic muscles [PDF]
, 2016 The body masses of cats (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) span a ~300‐fold range from the smallest to largest species. Despite this range, felid musculoskeletal anatomy remains remarkably conservative, including the maintenance of a crouched limb posture at
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Animals, 2022 With many felid species in widespread decline, re-thinking the messy felid–human entanglements is a necessary step for fostering coexistence as current conservation frameworks centered on human exceptionalism and widespread violence toward wild animals ...
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