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Toxins, 2021 Immature mammals require opportunities to develop skills that will affect their competitive abilities and reproductive success as adults. One way these benefits may be achieved is through play behavior.
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 IntroductionDecontextualization is a concept from psychology whereby new words are learned outside of the context of the here-and-now. Decontextualized language is used for discussing abstract concepts and is crucial to the development of academic ...
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The Fast and the Furriest: Investigating the Rate of Selection on Mammalian Toxins
Toxins, 2022 The evolution of venom and the selection pressures that act on toxins have been increasingly researched within toxinology in the last two decades, in part due to the exceptionally high rates of diversifying selection observed in animal toxins.
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Aposematic signaling and seasonal variation in dorsal pelage in a venomous mammal
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In mammals, colouration patterns are often related to concealment, intraspecific communication, including aposematic signals, and physiological adaptations.
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Animals, 2022 Accelerometers offer unique opportunities to study the behaviour of cryptic animals but require validation to show their accuracy in identifying behaviours. This validation is often undertaken in captivity before use in the wild.
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Land, 2021 There is an urgent need for a global transition to sustainable and wildlife-friendly farming systems that provide social and economic equity and protect ecosystem services on which agriculture depends.
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Animals, 2023 Natural landscapes are being converted for agriculture and other human uses across Asia and this development presents potential threats for specialist species of primates, like the Endangered slow lorises of Thailand (Nycticebus bengalensis and N ...
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Diversity, 2020 Deforestation is a major threat to biodiversity, particularly within tropical forest habitats. Some of the fastest diminishing tropical forest habitats in the world occur in Indonesia, where fragmentation is severely impacting biodiversity, including on ...
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Animals, 2022 For over 100 years, non-human primates (primates) have been a part of the now hundred-billion-dollar global film industry in a variety of capacities. Their use in the film industry is of concern due to the negative welfare effects on individuals, the ...
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Goal-Directed Travel in the Nocturnal Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus javanicus)
Ecologies, 2023 An animal’s ability to navigate its home range in search of essential resources is a key aspect of its ecology. To reach these resources, animals employ varying navigational processes depending on their exocentric or egocentric view of their environment.
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