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Analyses of national mountain lion harvest indices yield ambiguous interpretations
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Wildlife managers make difficult decisions about how best to ensure sustainable wildlife populations. This is especially contentious in the absence of accurate abundance data.
L. Mark Elbroch +3 more
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Are pumas subordinate carnivores, and does it matter? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Interspecific competition affects species fitness, community assemblages and structure, and the geographic distributions of species. Established dominance hierarchies among species mitigate the need for fighting and contribute to the realized ...
L. Mark Elbroch, Anna Kusler
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Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions. [PDF]
, 2009 The last representatives of the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), once numerous in North Africa but exterminated from the wild by the 1940s, are believed to be the captive lions descended from the Moroccan Royal Collection, numbering less than 90 ...
Groombridge, Jim J. +5 more
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Laundered alive? The transnational trade in wild felids through Bangladesh
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Wildlife trade represents a major threat to global biodiversity. Yet preventing species losses from unsustainable trade requires detailed knowledge of patterns and processes of trade to enable targeted interventions.
Nasir Uddin +4 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 Five cases of hemangiosarcoma were documented in three tigers and two lions during post-mortem examinations. Grossly, reddish-black coloured elevated masses were noticed with metastasis to the spleen.
N. Jayasree +4 more
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Dental Trauma following Animal Attack: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchAnimal attacks are a common cause of human injuries worldwide, with human-leopard encounters frequently reported in India. Animal attack injuries are increasingly common in trauma centres due to human encroachment into wildlife habitats, leading to more ...
Meetkumar Dedania +3 more
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Drivers of large carnivore density in non‐hunted, multi‐use landscapes
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Protected areas serve as population strongholds for many large carnivores, with multi‐use landscapes along their borders forming the front‐lines of wildlife conservation.
Allison L. Devlin +8 more
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Mountain lions (Puma concolor) and their current management: Texas residents’ knowledge and attitudes [PDF]
Nature ConservationTexas hosts approximately seven percent of the United States of America’s mountain lion (Puma concolor) population, although this estimate might be high due to their non-game status and lack of regulation.
Omar Ohrens +3 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 Tigers are a conservation-reliant species, as multiple populations face the risk of local extinction due to poaching arising from the continued demand for their body parts. Preventing tiger poaching poses a challenge for the rangers responsible for their
Wai Yee Lam +17 more
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, 2021 Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758 Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758: 41. COMMON NAME. — Lion. CURRENT NAME. — Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758). See Wozencraft (2005: 546). COLLECTOR/S. — Donated to François Péron. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data. Probably Cape Town, South Africa. COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S.
Jackson, Stephen M. +3 more
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