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Medicinal use of wild fauna by mestizo communities living near San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve (San Juan, Argentina) [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Wild and domestic animals and their by-products are important ingredients in the preparation of curative, protective and preventive medicines. Despite the medicinal use of animals worldwide, this topic has received less attention than the use
Borghi, Carlos Eduardo +2 more
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Roads have no effect on guanaco habitat selection at a Patagonian site with limited poaching
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018 Roads affect flora and fauna across the world. Large mammals are particularly vulnerable to road effects because their large home ranges lead to a higher probability of contact with road networks.
Natalia M. Schroeder +5 more
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 5, September 2025.The presence of humans and large carnivores in shared landscapes presents unique challenges for wildlife conservation and management. This study explores the temporal activity patterns of tourists and pumas Puma concolor using camera traps to understand the potential for encounters between the two groups in Patagonia National Park, Chile.
Liliana Guzmán‐Aguayo +8 more
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Offspring sex ratio of introduced red deer in Patagonia, Argentina after an intensive drought [PDF]
, 2001 Red deer (Cervus elaphus) introduced to Patagonia have reached high densities in the forest-steppe ecotone. Drought conditions during 1998/99 were suspected to impact subsequent reproductive performance.
Fluck, Werner Thomas
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Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication [PDF]
, 2014 Peer ...
Capriles, Jose M. +3 more
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F1000Research, 2014 We analyzed the effects of population density and climatic variables on the rate of population growth in the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), a wild camelid species in South America.
María Zubillaga +3 more
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Change of niche in guanaco (Lama guanicoe): the effects of climate change on habitat suitability and lineage conservatism in Chile [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The main goal of this contribution was to define the ecological niche of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), to describe potential distributional changes, and to assess the relative importance of niche conservatism and divergence processes between ...
Andrea G. Castillo +3 more
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Environmental Archaeology, 2019 In this paper, we analyze the isotopic niche and resource use of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) and marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) on the temperate plain of the northern Pampa region in the southeast of South ...
D. Loponte, M. J. Corriale
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Oryx, 2020 Negative interactions between guanacos Lama guanicoe and ranchers have recently intensified in central Chile because guanacos are perceived to be competing with livestock for pasture resources. We examined this conservation conflict with a novel approach
Solange P. Vargas +3 more
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Foxes as pets: Case study of the Fuegian Dog and its relationship to extinct Indigenous cultures
Journal of Zoology, Volume 327, Issue 1, Page 5-18, September 2025.This is a rare glimpse into the historical past of the zoologically mysterious Fuegian Dog that lived with early Holocene Indigenous groups on the island of Tierra del Fuego. Records of the animal's appearance and behavior kept by early explorers, artists and scientists who travelled to the tip of South America, plus the genetics and archaeological ...
W. L. Franklin
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