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Key beliefs underlying public feeding of free-roaming cats in Malaysia and management suggestions

, 2019
Public feeding of free-roaming cats subsidizes their population growth, and has consequences in highly interconnected ecosystems including predation of native wildlife and alteration of their behavior and populations.
Zhao, Xiang,, Khor, Mei,, Davey, Gareth,
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Feeding and Husbandry Practices in Pet Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo): A Cross‐Sectional International Study

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.
Clearer recommendations and improved caregiver education are urgently needed to support optimal ferret welfare. ABSTRACT Background The domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is an increasingly popular non‐traditional companion animal; however, limited information is available on how caregivers manage feeding and husbandry practices.
Erdem Danyer, Giada Morelli, Lorenzo Serva, Elena Dal Corso, Diego Cattarossi, Marianne Diez, Rebecca Ricci   +6 more
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A Preliminary Description of Companion Cat, Managed Stray Cat, and Unmanaged Stray Cat Welfare in Auckland, New Zealand Using a 5-Component Assessment Scale

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
Free-roaming cats are a polarizing issue in New Zealand and there is strong need for a comprehensive evaluation of their welfare to better inform population management decisions. In this study, a 5-component visual health-related welfare assessment scale
Sarah Zito, Jessica Walker, M. Carolyn Gates, Arnja Dale   +3 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Anthropogenic foods sustain free-roaming cats on a Mediterranean island, but neutering reduces wild bird consumption

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The domestic cat Felis catus is a predator, variously regarded as a pet, pest or pest controller, making its management ecologically and socially complex. On islands, wildlife predation by cats is a major conservation concern. Knowledge of the ecology of
Martina Cecchetti, Giacomo dell’Omo, Laura Ozella, Giulia Giambalvo, Paolo Santanera, Luigi Bertolotti, Robbie McDonald   +6 more
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Environmental Impact and Relative Invasiveness of Free-Roaming Domestic Carnivores—a North American Survey of Governmental Agencies

Animals, 2017
A survey of the United States and Canadian governmental agencies investigated the environmental impact and relative invasiveness of free-roaming domestic non-native carnivores—dogs, cats, and ferrets. Agencies represented wildlife, fish, game, natural or
Ana Lepe, Valerie Kaplan, Alirio Arreaza, Robert Szpanderfer, David Bristol, M. Scott Sinclair   +5 more
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Human? Multi‐Scale Niche Partitioning Among Wolves And Mesocarnivores in a Human‐Dominated Landscape

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To determine whether carnivore sympatry is hierarchically structured across spatial scales, with broad landscape filters constraining distributions and fine‐scale behavioral adjustments shaping realized overlap, and to evaluate this framework during large carnivore recolonization in human‐dominated landscapes characterized by novel risks ...
Katharina Kasper, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Elise Say‐Sallaz, Anna J. Kirsch, Monika Gehrke, Paulina A. Szafrańska, Marcin Churski, Maciej Szewczyk, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Aimara Planillo   +9 more
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Moonlight Duration and Intensity Favour Nocturnal Activity in a Diurnal Desert Bird

Ethology, Volume 132, Issue 9, Page 629-641, September 2026.
Accelerometer data show that Canarian houbara bustards increase nocturnal activity two‐ to fivefold when the moon is visible, with activity rising as moonlit duration and illumination increase. Both display and non‐display behaviours peaked around full moon, reaching up to half of peak daytime levels, with males increasing visual displays during ...
Juan C. Alonso, Alberto Ucero, Inmaculada Abril‐Colón, Carlos Palacín   +3 more
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Competition for Partners: Strategic Games in Wholesale International Roaming [PDF]

High international roaming prices have puzzled and occupied analysts and regulators for quite a time. While on the retail side the problem seems to be well understood, and the high margins can be justified using Ramsey pricing logic, on the wholesale ...
Domínguez Lacasa, Javier
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