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Processing Fluency and Predictive Processing: How the Predictive Mind Becomes Aware of its Cognitive Limitations

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Predictive processing is an influential theoretical framework for understanding human and animal cognition. In the context of predictive processing, learning is often reduced to optimizing the parameters of a generative model with a predefined structure. This is known as Bayesian parameter learning.
Philippe Servajean, Wanja Wiese
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Abdominal trauma by ostrich

Annals of Medicine & Surgery, 2015
Ostriches typically avoid humans in the wild, since they correctly assess humans as potential predators, and, if approached, often run away. However, ostriches may turn aggressive rather than run when threatened, especially when cornered, and may also attack when they feel the need to defend their offspring or territories.A 71-year-old male patient ...
Usurelu, Sergiu, Bettencourt, Vanessa, Melo, Gina   +2 more
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Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Candida albicans in Animal Hosts: A One Health Perspective

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Candida albicans is an important priority fungal pathogen that commonly colonizes humans and a wide range of animal hosts, although its population structure in wildlife remains poorly explored. Methods In this study, 41 C. albicans isolates obtained from Italian wild animals (European hedgehogs, wolves, foxes, badgers, roe deer ...
Lucilla Lo Re, Silvia Crotti, Letterio Giuffrè, Andrea Bonomo, Deborah Cruciani, Alice Ranucci, Ida Pernice, Carla Lo Passo, Giuseppe Criseo, Orazio Romeo   +9 more
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DNA Vaccines Against Mycoplasma Elicit Humoral Immune Responses in Ostriches

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
In ostriches, the population densities resulting from intensive rearing increases susceptibility to pathogens such as mycoplasmas. In addition to good management practices, vaccination offers an attractive alternative for controlling mycoplasma ...
Martha Wium, Hester Isabella Jonker, Adriaan Jacobus Olivier, Dirk Uwe Bellstedt, Annelise Botes   +4 more
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A Qualitative Evaluation of an Internet‐Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Intervention: The Ostrich Community Programme for Debt‐Related Mental Health Difficulties

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Financial problems and associated mental health difficulties are growing concerns in the United Kingdom. The Ostrich Community (OC) Programme is an internet‐based cognitive behavioural therapy–informed programme developed to support people experiencing debt‐related distress.
Dawn Smail, Sarah Elison‐Davies, Linda Dubrow‐Marshall, Rod Dubrow‐Marshall   +3 more
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DRINKING REGIMES ON WATER ECONOMY IN DOMESTIC OSTRICHES (STRUTHIO CAMELUS DOMESTICUS) AT DIFFERENT AGES

Agricultura, 2010
The features of water economy in ostriches were investigated. Twenty-two sixty-day ostriches were divided into three groups, according to the different drinking regimes applied.
Andrey Kurtenkov
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The Origins of Fashion

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
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Antimicrobial Resistance Among Selected Zoonotic Bacteria: A Case Study of Tortoises and Birds at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.
This study investigated antimicrobial resistance in birds and tortoises at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre. Escherichia coli predominated in birds, whereas Salmonella enteritidis predominated in tortoises with resistance to sulphonamides detected.
Delilah Diana Namara, Paul Ssajjakambwe, Sarah Robinah Nakabuye, Vanessa Alyj Katabazi, Celsus Sente   +4 more
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Historical ostriches in the Libyan Desert, with ecological and taxonomic considerations

Natural History Sciences
Many historical records extend the known range of the African ostrich Struthio camelus to include almost the entire state territory of Libya. This significant expansion augments the spatial potentialities to reintroduce captive-bred progeny of the ...
Arnd Schreiber
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Three Decades of Monitoring Reveal That Differing Population Trends of Large Herbivores in Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe, Are Related to Species Body Mass

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
For ~20 years after the severe 1992 drought, the estimated numbers of elephant, buffalo, eland, giraffe, greater kudu, nyala, warthog, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra increased in Gonarezhou NP, Zimbabwe. After 2013/2014, the rate of change in the survey estimates declined for buffalo, eland, elephant, giraffe and zebra, but was not negative ...
Kevin M. Dunham
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