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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Ever‐growing human activities present an active and continuing threat to many species throughout the world. Nevertheless, concerted conservation efforts in some regions have balanced these threats and allowed endangered species to recolonise former parts of their original ranges and reverse their decline.
Kilian Hughes +2 more
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Metagenomic Detection of Multiple Viruses in Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) in Australia
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceBackground Birds are known to harbour many pathogens, including circovirus, herpesviruses, adenoviruses and Chlamydia psittaci. Some of these pose zoonotic risks, while others, such as beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), have a significant impact on ...
Babu Kanti Nath +6 more
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Brumptomyia Franca & Parrot 1921
, 2022 Genus Brumptomyia França & Parrot, 1921 Brumptomyia França & Parrot, 1921: 281 (as subgenus of Phlebotomus). Type species: not designated. Additional references: Dyar (1929, designation of Phlebotomus brumpti Larrousse, 1920, as type species ...
Durán-Luz, Juana +1 more
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Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss +4 more
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Trade in wild-sourced African grey parrots: Insights via social media
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018 The rise of social media is changing the global trade of wildlife, presenting new challenges and opportunities for regulating and monitoring trade in threatened species.
Rowan O. Martin +2 more
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Fungal isolation and identification from parrot excreta in northeast Iran: A threat to human health
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2023 Background One of the environmental sources of pathogenic fungi is parrot droppings. Objectives Thus, this work aimed to investigate fungal contamination in parrots’ droppings.
Mahdis Malekifard +2 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha +9 more
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Feather picking in pet parrots: sensitive species, risk factor and ethological evidence
Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2016 The goals of this study were to estimate the prevalence of feather picking (FP) in Italian pet parrots and evaluate the risk factors and possible ethological correlation.
Pierluca Costa +10 more
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A new parrot taxon from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico—its position within genus Amazona based on morphology and molecular phylogeny [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Parrots (Psittaciformes) are a diverse group of birds which need urgent protection. However, many taxa from this order have an unresolved status, which makes their conservation difficult.
Tony Silva +3 more
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Evidence of parental care as a newly identified reproductive isolating barrier
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Behavioural variation can contribute to reproductive isolation and can be an important driver of speciation. Here, we show that a previously undescribed mechanism, parental care, can function as a postzygotic reproductive isolating barrier when dysregulated in hybrids.
Colby Behrens +6 more
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