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Ecosphere, 2023 Quantifying animal abundance, density, and distributions affords the opportunity to understand the effects of landscape structure and change on species of conservation interest, but estimating these parameters can be difficult for rare and cryptic ...
Marie E. Martin +12 more
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Five‐year assessment of wolf translocation to Isle Royale National Park, 2018–2023
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.The National Park Service used a variety of methods to monitor the success of a restored wolf population on Isle Royale National Park. Abstract Gray wolf (Canis lupus) translocation is a common approach for restoring ecological function through top‐down regulation.
Adia R. Sovie +12 more
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Evolutionary Applications, 2022 Urbanization is decreasing wildlife habitat and connectivity worldwide, including for apex predators, such as the puma (Puma concolor). Puma populations along California's central and southern coastal habitats have experienced rapid fragmentation from ...
Kyle D. Gustafson +9 more
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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Factors Governing Risk of Cougar Attacks on Humans
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Since the 1980s wildlife managers in the United States and Canada have expressed increasing concern about the physical threat posed by cougars (Puma concolor) to humans.
David Mattson +2 more
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Herbivore‐mediated ecosystem processes are fundamental to biodiversity, yet have been greatly diminished by megafauna extinctions and replacement of wild herbivores by managed livestock. With increasing restoration ambitions—including the United Nations' (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the European Union (EU) Nature ...
Camilla Fløjgaard +8 more
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, 1946 Paw of a female mountain lion, weight 100 lb. Also known as cougar and puma. (Family: felidae; binomial name: puma concolor)
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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California mountain lion, ca.1920
, 2005 Photograph of a California mountain lion, ca.1920. The lion sits defensively on large boulders at center. The mountain lion appears to have light, smooth fur and dark eyes that look into the foreground.
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