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Anticoagulant Rodenticides Contribute to a Decline in an Urban Carnivore

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have been shown to negatively affect carnivores globally and are closely tied to human activity and development. We examined drivers of annual survival in bobcats persisting on a residentially developed barrier island over 16 years.
Meghan P. Keating, Catherine M. Bodinof Jachowski, Duane R. Diefenbach, James D. Jordan, Nicole M. Nemeth, Thomas R. Rainwater, Gregory K. Yarrow, David S. Jachowski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Flavor of Various Edible Meats Including Wild Raccoon Meat by the Check-All-That-Apply Method

Foods
Consumers often demonstrate an intrinsic aversion to unfamiliar foods referred to as food neophobia. Wild raccoon (Procyon lotor) meat represents such an unfamiliar food, both globally and within Japan. Providing information on the flavor of raccoon meat
Wataru Mizunoya, Nanami Hayashi, Asuka Kataoka, Hinako Nishikawa, Minori Todoroki, Chihiro Kase, Shiro Takeda   +6 more
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Weekend Overload: Day‐to‐Day Fluctuations of Outdoor Recreation Affect Wild Mammals' Space‐Use in a Popular Forest Reserve Near Florence, Italy

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
In an urban‐adjacent forested area, we investigated the spatial and temporal distribution of the wild mammal community in relation to day‐to‐day fluctuations of human presence occurring between working days and weekends. We deployed 52 camera‐traps systematically within an EU Natura 2000 area located within the metropolitan area of Florence, central ...
Ilaria Greco, Marco Salvatori, Claudio Bruzzone, Gianluca Serra, Giovanni Galipò, Davide Travaglini, Francesco Rovero   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Northern Raccoon snarl 101008

, 2010
AnimaliaCraniataMammaliaCarnivoraProcyonidaeProcyonCompressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery formatAudio tracks of animal soundsA young raccoon snarls at another raccoon in an urban area north of ...
Rice, Jeff
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Raccoon Creek, New Jersey from Swedesboro to Springer's Wharf

, 1913
Map 1: Raccoon Creek from Molonox Shoal to Swedesboro. Map shows Raccoon Creek with soundings, the 7 foot curve and 4 foot curve, the mean low water line, proposed improvements and jetty.

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Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified taxa in the site, with specimens preliminarily classified as small, large and giant based on size comparisons.
Sarah Hannan, Sofia C. Samper Carro, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HRaccoon: A High-performance Configurable SCA Resilient Raccoon Hardware Accelerator

Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
The lattice-based Raccoon scheme is one of the candidates in Round 1 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum cryptography (PQC) additional digital signatures standardization process.
Ziying Ni, Ayesha Khalid, Zhaoyu Zhang, Yijun Cui, Máire O’Neill   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Northern raccoon

, 1973
A raccoon in a ...
Oglesby, Larry C.
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Steep declines of colonial wading birds in northeastern North America's largest breeding population

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study analyzed 22 years of complete nest census data for colonial wading birds in New York–New Jersey Harbor, the largest breeding population in the northeastern United States. Over this period, the total wading bird population decreased by 27%, a rate exceeding average long‐term declines across North American birds.
Dustin Partridge, Shannon R. Curley, Tod Winston, José R. Ramírez‐Garofalo, Michael C. Allen, Emilio Tobón, Paul Kerlinger, Elizabeth Craig, Susan B. Elbin   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source