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Kunsia tomentosus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830), the woolly giant rat, is a semifossorial cricetid typically associated with the Cerrado and Beni domains in central South America. Kunsia was recently revised and includes only 1 species.
Bezerra, Alexandra M. R.   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Our “Baby” on YouTube: The Gendered Life Stories of the Unborn

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2019
This study concerns the usage of foetal ultrasounds, more specifically those produced during the 5th month of pregnancy within the routine checks of any pregnancy in France. Interestingly, more and more parents are posting short films on YouTube of their
Agnès Pélage
doaj   +1 more source

Rediscovery of Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 40 years at Mbiye Island, Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We report the rediscovery of the Pied Butterfl y Bat, Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939, 40 years after this species was last recorded. The new specimen from Mbiye Island, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is compared with the type specimens of G.
De Vree, Frits   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Adaptation of pelage color and pigment variations in Israeli subterranean blind mole rats, Spalax ehrenbergi [corrected].

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundConcealing coloration in rodents is well established. However, only a few studies examined how soil color, pelage color, hair-melanin content, and genetics (i.e., the causal chain) synergize to configure it.
Natarajan Singaravelan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Summer pelaged weasels in winter: Indication of winter reproduction

open access: yesFauna Norvegica, 1993
Two weasels Mustela nivalis (L.) were observed on April 4 and 18, 1992, respectively, in the western parts of Hardangervidda, southern Norway. The weasels were both in summer pelage (walnut brown above and white below), in a season when the weasel ...
Jon Hjortdal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current situation on ectoparasitosis in dogs in Moscow

open access: yesРоссийский паразитологический журнал, 2023
The purpose of the research is the study of the current situation on ectoparasite infections in dogs in Moscow considering the season of the year.Materials and methods.
S. B. Devyatyarova
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the Korean wood mouse (Apodemus peninsulae Thomas, 1907) in mercury transport in ecosystems in the south-east of Sikhote-Alin [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The role of the Korean wood mouse in mercury transport was studied by total mercury in 2018 and 2022. In 2018, the total mercury content of the Korean wood mouse was generally lower than in 2022.
Poddubnaya Nadezhda, Timoshkin Alexandr
doaj   +1 more source

The Munduruku marmoset: a new monkey species from southern Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2019
Although the Atlantic Forest marmosets (Callithrix spp.) are among the best studied Neotropical primates, the Amazonian marmosets (Callibella humilis, Cebuella spp. and Mico spp.) are much less well-known. Even species diversity and distributions are yet
Rodrigo Costa-Araújo   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

«Pepper's patches» on Rangifer pelage

open access: yesRangifer, 1986
We describe and give frequencies of occurrence of a rarely-mentioned pattern of spots in Rangifer pelage. We also show that the pattern was well-known to Palaeolithic humans who recorded it in their cave art.
William O. Pruitt, Jr., Hubert Pepper
doaj   +1 more source

Revision of the Chiapan deer mouse, Peromyscus zarhynchus, with the description of a new species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We analyzed morphometric and molecular variation among 8 populations of Peromyscus zarhynchus grouped into 5 pooled samples representing separate physiographic regions across the range of this species in Chiapas, Mexico, and western Guatemala ...
Lorenzo, C   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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