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Human-cat relationship in an oceanic biosphere reserve: the case of La Palma Island, Canary archipelago [PDF]

, 2016
Removal of feral cats from island environments is a useful mechanism by which their ecological impact on endangered species can be reduced or ended. Nevertheless, because cats are anthropogenic in their origins, social perceptions of management practices
Aguilar, Aguilar, Aguilar, Ash, Beckman, Bonnaud, Bridgewater, Campbell, del Arco, DIISE, Driscoll, Elsa Bonnaud, Farnworth, Farnworth, Farnworth, Farnworth, Finkler, Fitzgerald, Franklin, Félix M. Medina, Haspel, Hervías, Kays, Lepczyk, Liberg, Lohr, Lowe, Loyd, Manuel Nogales, Mark J. Farnworth, Medina, Medina, Medina, Metsers, Nogales, Nogales, Oppel, Oppel, Parkes, Perry, Proulx, Rando, Rice, Tschanz, Turner, van Heezik, White, Woods   +47 more
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

Practical Physical and Behavioral Measures to Assess the Socialization Spectrum of Cats in a Shelter-Like Setting during a Three Day Period

Animals, 2013
Animal welfare organizations routinely accept large numbers of cats with unknown histories, and whose backgrounds vary from well-socialized pets to cats that have had little or no contact with humans. Agencies are challenged with making the determination
Margaret Slater, Laurie Garrison, Katherine Miller, Emily Weiss, Kathleen Makolinski, Natasha Drain, Alex Mirontshuk   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research challenges and conservation implications for urban cat management in New Zealand [PDF]

, 2016
Over the past 20 years conservation efforts in New Zealand have moved from being concentrated in rural and isolated island locations, where exotic mammalian predators are often controlled, to begin to bring native fauna back to major cities.
Aguilar, Aguilar, Aguilar, Aronson, Baker, Calver, Calver, Coughlin, Dickman, Edwards, Farnworth, Farnworth, Farnworth, Farnworth, Fitzgerald, Flux, Gajewski, Galbreath, Gehrt, Gillies, Glass, Gordon, Gramza, Grayson, Hall, Hall, Harrod, Hitchmough, Hollings, Innes, Langham, Lee, Lepczyk, Lepczyk, Loss, Loyd, Loyd, MacDonald, McDonald, McLeod, Medina, Metsers, Molsher, Morgan, Nelson, Oppel, Roe, Sih, Sims, Thompson, Tocher, Towns, van Heezik, van Heezik, Willson, Wong, Wood, Woods, Yamane   +58 more
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

First report of in a feral domestic shorthair cat in North America

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2015
Case summary A feral domestic shorthair cat was euthanized owing to acute onset and progression of neurological signs attributed to ethylene glycol toxicity.
Nicholas A Crossland, Cory R Hanks, Jayde A Ferguson, Michael L Kent, Justin L Sanders, Fabio Del Piero   +5 more
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction - veterinary science [PDF]

, 2011
This introduction - co-written with Clare Palmer - sets up the following selection of open access essays in the 'living book': Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health online at: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books ...
Fudge, Erica, Palmer, Clare
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Tax Theory & Feral AI [PDF]

, 2020
This essay is a sci-fi thought experiment about the significance of personhood in income taxation, meant to explore the validity of currently prevailing justifications for the ...
Hoffer, Stephanie R.
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Relationships Between European Wildcats and Domestic Cats in an Area of Sympatry: Exploring Key Conservation Questions on Hybridization and Disease Transmission

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We have found evidence of behavioural barriers for both hybridization and disease transmission between European wildcats and domestic cats. This includes hierarchical interspecies exclusion enforced by wildcats, as well as sexual selection exerted by wildcat females.
Jose María Gil‐Sánchez, Elena Bertos, Mariola Sánchez‐Cerdá, Emilio Virgós, Marcos Moleón   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source