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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Ghee T. Tan   +3 more
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Kerodon rupestris

, 2005
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Caviidae, pp. 1552-1556 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
The connection between eating and healing is common in traditional folk medical systems, and the multiple possibilities resulting from the combination of biodiversity and culture confer a wealth and complexity in terms of knowledge of the flora and fauna as to their potential as food medicine.
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Ierecê Lucena Rosa, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros   +3 more
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Caatinga Revisited: Ecology and Conservation of an Important Seasonal Dry Forest

The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest) hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies in the area. Here we aimed to present a review of these studies, focusing on four main fields: vertebrate ecology, plant ...
Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Elcida de Lima Araújo, Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, André Luiz Alves de Lima, Antonio Souto, Bruna Martins Bezerra, Elba Maria Nogueira Ferraz, Eliza Maria Xavier Freire, Everardo Valadares de Sá Barreto Sampaio, Flor Maria Guedes Las-Casas, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Glauco Alves Pereira, Joabe Gomes de Melo, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Maria Jesus Nogueira Rodal, Nicola Schiel, Rachel Maria de Lyra-Neves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Severino Mendes de Azevedo-Júnior, Wallace Rodrigues Telino Júnior, William Severi, Bruno B. Castro, Hubert Hasenauer   +22 more
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Geographic Distribution of Chagas Disease Vectors in Brazil Based on Ecological Niche Modeling

Journal of Tropical Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Although Brazil was declared free from Chagas disease transmission by the domestic vector Triatoma infestans, human acute cases are still being registered based on transmission by native triatomine species. For a better understanding of transmission risk, the geographic distribution of Brazilian triatomines was analyzed.
Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Cléber Galvão, Jane Costa, A. Townsend Peterson, Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas   +4 more
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Animal‐Based Remedies as Complementary Medicines in the Semi‐Arid Region of Northeastern Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011
Animals (and their derived products) are essential ingredients in the preparation of many traditional remedies. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on medicinal animals has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant research.
Rômulo R. N. Alves, José A. A. Barbosa, Silene L. D. X. Santos, Wedson M. S. Souto, Raynner R. D. Barboza   +4 more
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Predation of Kerodon rupestris (Wied-Neuwied, 1820) (rock-cavy) by Herpailurus yagouaroundi (É. Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire, 1803) (jaguarundi) in the Brazilian Caatinga

Notas sobre Mamíferos Sudamericanos
No presente manuscrito, apresentamos o primeiro registro fotográfico conhecido de um evento de predação do mocó Kerodon rupestris por jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi no município de Várzea Nova, norte do estado da Bahia, Brasil.
A. C. França, Marcela Carreiro, V. S. Orsini, Gitana Cavalcanti, Diego P. C. Ramos, F. Perini   +5 more
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Helmintos parasitos de mocós (Kerodon rupestris Rodentia: Caviidae) de vida livre e de cativeiro, no semi-árido nordestino Brasileiro

, 2008
This study shows the helminthic fauna of 16 rock cavies (Kerodon rupestris) from the semi-arid region in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Nine animals were captured from the wild and seven from a captive population located at the Centro de ...
Nascimento, A. A., Tebaldi, J. H., Almeida, K. A., Freitas, Fagner L.C.   +3 more
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Description of Karyotype of Kerodon acrobata, an endemic rodent in Brazilian Cerrado

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Kerodon acrobata is a caviidae rodent endemic from Brazilian Cerrado. It was described only in 1997 and the data about it is very scarce. The aim of this work was to characterize the karyotype of K. acrobata.
IA Zappes, AS Portella, GM Lessa
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The Free‐Range Rock Cavy (Kerodon rupestris) Communicates the Urgency of a Threat Using Different Alarm Calls

Ethology, Volume 131, Issue 10, Page 175-186, October 2025.
Rock cavy alarm calls are finely modulated by threat proximity. ABSTRACT This study examines whether rock cavies (Kerodon rupestris), which are social rodents, modulate their alarm calls in response to various threat contexts. Conducted across four sample areas within two study sites in the Brazilian Caatinga region, alarm calls were collected using ...
Wesley N. Almeida, Sérgio L. G. Nogueira‐Filho, Kamila S. Barros, Selene S. C. Nogueira   +3 more
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