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Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk

Conservation Letters, 2022
Many threatened species depend on climatic microrefugia, but places with harsh climates for predators may also play a refugial role. Feral cats threaten many native species in arid Australia. Although cats can persist in regions with no free water, their
Natalie J. Briscoe, Hugh McGregor, David Roshier, Andrew Carter, Brendan A. Wintle, Michael R. Kearney   +5 more
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Fishing for Feral Cats in a Naturally Fragmented Rocky Landscape Using Movement Data

Remote Sensing, 2021
Feral cats are one of the most damaging predators on Earth. They can be found throughout most of Australia’s mainland and many of its larger islands, where they are adaptable predators responsible for the decline and extinction of many species of native ...
Sandra D. Williamson, Richard van Dongen, Lewis Trotter, Russell Palmer, Todd P. Robinson   +4 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of Feline calicivirus in cats in Ahvaz district, Southwest of Iran by RT-PCR (a preliminary study) [PDF]

The Iranian Journal of Veterinary Science and Technology, 2013
Feline calicivirus (FCV) is a highly infectious respiratory pathogen of domestic cats with a widespread distribution. In order to assess how FCV circulates in feral and household cats, we have carried out the first study on the FCV detection in Ahvaz ...
Reza Avizeh, Maosud Reza Seyfi Abad Shapouri, Bahman Mosallanejad, Fatameh Faridan Esfahani   +3 more
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Population Origins and Expansion of Feral Cats in Australia [PDF]

Journal of Heredity, 2015
The historical literature suggests that in Australia, the domestic cat (Felis catus) had a European origin [~200 years before present (ybp)], but it is unclear if cats arrived from across the Asian land bridge contemporaneously with the dingo (4000 ybp), or perhaps immigrated ~40000 ybp in association with Aboriginal settlement from Asia. The origin of
Spencer, Peter B. S., Yurchenko, Andrey A., David, Victor A., Scott, Rachael, Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, Driscoll, Carlos, O'Brien, Stephen J., Menotti-Raymond, Marilyn   +7 more
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Generation of Allogeneic CAR‐T Circumvents Functional Deficits in Patient‐Derived Autologous Product for Glioblastoma

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Clinical trials of chimeric antigen receptor T‐cell (CAR‐T) therapies in glioblastoma have shown limited clinical benefits. Whether this may be explained by the basal quality of CAR‐T products, which are currently generated using patient, autologous T‐cells, has been little explored.
Sabra K. Salim, Muhammad Vaseem Shaikh, Jeffrey Wei, William T. Maich, Alisha Anand, Oliver Y. Tang, Minomi K. Subapanditha, Zahra Alizada, Yujin Suk, Manoj Singh, Kui Zhai, Aapti Khanna, Benjamin Brakel, Vassil Dimitrov, Zoya Tabunshchyk, Katie Chan, Kevin R. Brown, Parvez Vora, Donald M. O'Rourke, Zev A. Binder, Chitra Venugopal, Jason Moffat, Sheila K. Singh   +22 more
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Macroscopic, Histological and Ultrastructural Features of the Tongue of the Anatolian Wild Boar (Sus scrofa libycus)

Microscopy Research and Technique, EarlyView.
Integrated macroscopic, histological, and ultrastructural analyses revealed five distinct lingual papillae types (filiform, fungiform, conical, foliate, and vallate) in the Anatolian wild boar (Sus scrofa libycus). Mechanical papillae showed marked structural specialization, while gustatory papillae exhibited region‐specific distribution of taste buds.
Fatma Işbilir, Banu Kandil, Muhammed Zahid Atli, İhsan Işbilir, Barış Can Güzel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying people’s most preferred management technique for feral cats in Hawaii

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Feral cats (Felis catus) are abundant in many parts of the world and pose a threat to native wildlife. Human–wildlife conflicts regarding how feral cats should be managed have increased recently.
Cheryl A. Lohr, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Linda J. Cox   +2 more
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Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of small predators, such as feral cats.
Hugh McGregor, Sarah Legge, Menna E Jones, Christopher N Johnson   +3 more
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