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Interspecies Haptic Sociality: An Observation of Grooming Between Two Mongoose Species. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study presents the first visual observation of grooming between a meerkat (Suricata suricatta) and a yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa. We hypothesise that this rare interspecific social behaviour may be a result of phylogenetic ties, shared behaviours and a recent collapse of the resident meerkat ...
Smith K +3 more
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Serosurveillance of Leishmania infantum in Zoo-Kept Animals in Spain. [PDF]
Zoonoses Public HealthABSTRACT Introduction Leishmaniosis is a sand fly‐borne zoonosis mainly caused by Leishmania infantum in Europe. Exposure to this protozoan has been widely reported in many domestic and wild species. However, epidemiological surveys evaluating the circulation of L. infantum in zoo‐kept animals remain limited. This large‐scale study aims to evaluate the
Barbero-Moyano J +11 more
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Non-Volant Mammalian Diversity, Occurrence, and Ecological Patterns in a Tropical Montane Forest in Sarawak, Borneo. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe investigated the diversity and activity patterns of mammals in a high‐altitude protected area in Borneo using data from 81 camera trap stations set up between April 2023 and September 2024. A total of 35 species were detected, with notable findings including a difference in mean species richness between trophic guilds, nocturnal behavior in ...
Voon M +4 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2009 Marsh Mongoose Herpestes palustris is the only extant endemic mammal of the East Kolkata wetlands, which has been declared a RAMSAR site in 2002. Since its first description by the scientists of the Zoological Survey of India, the population of this ...
J.K. Mallick
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019 Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus is crepuscular in habit and rarely encountered. Information on its natural history and ecology is limited and consequently its conservation requirements are not well understood. We report observations of a Brown Mongoose
Vignesh Kamath, Kadaba Shamanna Seshadri
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مجلة جامعة دمشق للعلوم الأساسية, 2021 وَثقت الدراسة الحاليَّة وجود سبعة أنواع من فصيلتي بنات عرس Mustelidae والنمسيات Herpestidae من رتبة اللواحم Carnivora في سورية. تمثلت الفصيلة الأولى بستة أنواع؛ ثلاثة منها سجلت من خلال رصد مشاهدتها نهاراً أو باستخدام الإضاءة ليلاً، أو باستخدام المصائد ...
د. أحمد داود
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Novitates Caribaea, 2023 We report unusual foraging events in two of the most invasive terrestrial predators in the world that are well established in the Caribbean islands: the Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata), locally known as jurón, and the Domestic Cat (Felis catus).
Miguel A. Landestoy T. +2 more
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Morphological aspects of the brain in the Indian grey mongoose (Herpestes Edwardsii) [PDF]
The Iranian Journal of Veterinary Science and Technology, 2020 Mongoose is a common name for 29 to 34 species in 14 genera of the family Herpestidae which are found in vast areas of southwestern Asia, especially southern Iran.
Babak Rasouli +2 more
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Prevalence of mortality in mammals: A retrospective study from wildlife rescue center of Nepal
Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 To assess threats to the population of native mammals and their survival, we performed a retrospective study utilizing a rescue and rehabilitation database from Nepal.
Binaya Adhikari +4 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 We report three cases of sparganosis due to plerocercoids of the tapeworm Spirometra sp. in captive meerkats (Suricata suricatta) from a zoo exhibit in the southeastern United States. Two meerkats were euthanized, one due to an uncontrollable seizure and
Brittany McHale +8 more
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