Sociodemographic, income, and environmental characteristics of individuals displaying animal and object hoarding behavior in a major city in South Brazil: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2021 Background and Aim: Hoarding cases have not been researched in depth in developing countries, such as Brazil. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of people with hoarding behavior in Curitiba, Brazil.
Graziela Ribeiro da Cunha +4 more
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Description of Twenty-Nine Animal Hoarding Cases in Italy: The Impact on Animal Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The hoarding of animals is a psychiatric disease, characterized by a compulsive collection of animals, with a relevant impact upon the care and welfare of animals, as well as on human society.
Luigi Sacchettino +8 more
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Animal hoarding: a systematic review [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 Objectives: Animal hoarding is a special manifestation of hoarding disorder, characterized by the accumulation of animals and failure to provide them with minimal care.
Bárbara Perdigão Stumpf +11 more
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“Dying alone and being eaten”: dog scavenging on the remains of an elderly animal hoarder-a case report [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Animal hoarding and human consumption by dogs have been important but often understudied aspects of the human-animal bond that can be addressed within a One Health framework.
Louise Bach Kmetiuk +4 more
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Behavioral adaptation of sympatric rodents to early germination of oak acorns: radicle pruning and embryo excision [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 The seed germination schedule is a key factor affecting the food-hoarding behavior of animals and the seedling regeneration of plants. However, little is known about the behavioral adaptation of rodents to the rapid germination of acorns.
Mingming Zhang +6 more
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Protocol guide for food foraging behavior test: Assessment of decision making in rodents [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Food foraging behavior requires higher cognitive function like investing efforts in decision making. Hoarding food for the future consumption in adverse climatic conditions or to avoid predatory threats needs precise perception and potential of decision ...
Muhammad Jahangir +5 more
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High-tannin food enhances spatial memory and scatter-hoarding in rodents via the microbiota-gut-brain axis [PDF]
MicrobiomeBackground The mutually beneficial coevolutionary relationships between rodents and plant seeds have been a theme of research in plant-animal relationships.
Xiangyu Zhao +3 more
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Boldness suppresses hoarding behavior in food hoarding season and reduces over‐wintering survival in a social rodent [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe “pace‐of‐life” syndrome (POLS) framework can encompass multiple personality axes that drive important functional behaviors (e.g., foraging behavior) and that co‐vary with multiple life history traits.
Lin Gan +3 more
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Association of hoarding case identification and animal protection programs to socioeconomic indicators in a major metropolitan area of Brazil [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 The present study assessed the identification of animal and object hoarding disorder cases by contact and mapping and the presence of animal protection programs in association with seven social–economic indicators of the metropolitan area of the ninth ...
Raphael Rolim de Moura +9 more
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Effects of Seed Size and Cache Density on the Seed Fate of Quercus wutaishanica Mediated by Rodents [PDF]
LifeAnimal-mediated seed dispersal is very important for plant population regeneration and the stability of forest ecosystems. Seed size and cache density are important factors for seed dispersal, but we still know little about seed size selection at ...
Jiming Cheng, Min Zhang, Xingfu Yan
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