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Avon Park Air Force Range project: distribution and abundance of sensitive wildlife species at Avone Park Force Range [PDF]
Executive Summary. We surveyed for seven species ofsensitve wildlife (Florida gopher frogs, gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Florida mouse, Florida roundtail muskrat, Sherman's fox squirrel) between October 1996 ...
Franz, Richard +4 more
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The Diversity of Terrestrial Mammals Surrounding Waterfall at Billy Barquedier National Park [PDF]
Billy Barquedier is a National Park located in the Stann Creek district of Belize that contains Neotropical vegetation and wildlife. This study was performed to provide a baseline inventory and appearance frequency patterns of the terrestrial mammals ...
Apple, Jason, Johnson, Kelsey
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Armadillos in Missouri : techniques to prevent and control damage (2012) [PDF]
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Martensen, Rex, Pierce, Robert A. II
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Leprosy is a chronically infectious disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae, or the more recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis. In the Americas, wild armadillos of the Dasypus genus are natural hosts.
Olivia F. Sciandra +3 more
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Background Placental characters vary among Xenarthra, one of four supraordinal clades of Eutheria. Armadillos are known for villous, haemochorial placentas similar to humans. Only the nine-banded armadillo has been well studied so far.
Rezende Lorenna C +4 more
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Adakah Kaitan antara Penyakit Kusta Kerbau (Lepra Bubalorum) dan Penyakit Kusta Manusia (Lepra Humanum) di Sulawesi ? [PDF]
Lepra bubalorum or leprosy in water buffaloes, is an exotic disease in buffaloes. It is a very interesting phenomenon in Veterinary Medicine because until to date it has been found only in Indonesia.
Budiarso, I. T. (Iwan)
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Nine-banded armadillo and leprosy research.
In this presentation an attempt has been made to describe the nine-banded armadillo as an animal model, probably the only one in which lepromatous leprosy similar to that found in humans can be experimentally produced. Some unique features of the physiology of the animal are mentioned.
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We compared characteristics of a population of nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) studied in the southern United States with a population found in the Atlantic coastal rainforest of Brazil. Adult armadillos in Brazil weighed less than those in
W.J. Loughry, Colleen M McDonough
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The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E. +4 more
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Corneal changes in nine-banded armadillos with leprosy.
Leprosy is the third leading cause of blindness worldwide; however, little is known about the ocular changes that occur during the disease process. We have studied the eyes of two nine-banded armadillos with experimental Mycobacterium leprae infection by light and electron microscopy.
R, Malaty, B, Togni
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