Children’s Relationships with a Non-Vertebrate Animal: The Case of a Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica) at School [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Employing living animals in educational settings is popular and may assist learning. Human-animal relationships are considered fundamental for the effects of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) on successful learning.
Katharina Hirschenhauser, Lisa Brodesser
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Immersion anaesthesia with ethanol in African giant land snails (Acathina fulica) [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 Giant African land snails (Achatina fulica) are becoming increasingly popular pets and may be anaesthetised to allow diagnostics and surgical procedures.
Dario d’Ovidio +3 more
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Soil warming increases the active antibiotic resistome in the gut of invasive giant African snails [PDF]
MicrobiomeBackground Global warming is redrawing the map for invasive species, spotlighting the globally harmful giant African snail as a major ecological disruptor and public health threat.
Yiyue Zhang +6 more
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Occurrence of Rhabditid Nematodes in the Pet Giant African Land Snails (Achatina fulica) [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Gastropods comprise nearly 60,000 species of aquatic as well as terrestrial mollusks, primarily snails and slugs. The giant African land snail (Achatina fulica) is one of the most popular pet snails worldwide.
Dario d'Ovidio +3 more
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Bacterial diversity in different regions of gastrointestinal tract of Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) [PDF]
MicrobiologyOpen, 2012 Kiran D Pawar +2 more
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PREVENTION OF DISEASES TRANSMITTED BY THE GIANT AFRICAN SNAIL. A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE.
Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: The African Giant Snail is considered one of the 100 species most harmful and exotic invaders in the world. Methodology: A bibliographic review was carried out in January 2021. References were searched in Pubmed, Medline, and Scelo databases.
Ibrahim Illia Saidou +2 more
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Composites Part C: Open Access, 2023 This experimental research focuses on the nanostructure analysis of three materials; polyether ether ketone (PEEK), African land giant snail shell (ALGSS), and sea snail shell (SSS) powder, for the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings in bone ...
Agbor A. Esoso +4 more
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Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2021 Background African giant land snails (Archachatina marginata) are hermaphroditic pulmonate nocturnal gastropods of the Achatinidae family. The snail is one of West Africa's largest known terrestrial snails.
Titus Adeniyi Olusi +2 more
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Comparative diagnostic imaging in giant African land snails (Achatinidae)
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Giant African land snails (GALS) have become increasingly popular, for example, as pets or in kindergartens in Europe, but little is known about their clinically relevant anatomy, diseases, or further details in diagnostic imaging. The present study focuses on the techniques and image interpretation of radiography, computed tomography, and sonography ...
Gumpenberger, Michaela +2 more
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A New Glycosaminoglycan from the Giant African Snail Achatina fulica [PDF]
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1996 A new glycosaminoglycan has been isolated from the giant African snail Achatina fulica. This polysaccharide had a molecular weight of 29,000, calculated based on the viscometry, and a uniform repeating disaccharide structure of -->4)-2-acetyl,2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranose (1-->4)-2-sulfo-alpha-L-idopyranosyluronic acid (1-->.
Y S, Kim +5 more
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