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The practicality of practice: A model of the function of play behaviour
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 It has been hypothesised that play offers practice for serious adult behaviour. By modelling the repeated choices between three behaviours: foraging, play and rest, we show that play may be optimal, because of potential safety benefits, even if it only offers an inferior form of practice for serious behaviour.
Dave E. W. Mallpress, Marek Špinka
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Microscopy Research and Technique, Volume 86, Issue 9, Page 1206-1233, September 2023., 2023 Exploring the Vomeronasal Organ in the Dama Gazelle, an Endangered Mammal Abstract Dama gazelle is a threatened and rarely studied species found primarily in northern Africa. Human pressure has depleted the dama gazelle population from tens of thousands to a few hundred individuals.
Mateo V. Torres +4 more
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Estudios Geologicos, 2011 Tanto los machos como muchas de las hembras del ciervo primitivo Dicrocerus elegans de Sansan (Mioceno Medio, Francia) poseían apéndices craneales de tipo asta que consisten en una protoasta bifurcada y ornamentada con surcos y crestas que es sustentada ...
B. Azanza +4 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 276-289, June 2023., 2023 Short Abstract This paper explores how veterinary interventions, through political economic and biosecurity practices, become productive economic forces in intensive animal farming and the wider agri‐food production. Empirically, the article focuses on the challenges of buffalo farming in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Southern Italy, and it draws from ...
László Cseke
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Estudios Geologicos, 2011 Los restos de bóvidos son excepcionalmente raros en los yacimientos del Cerro de los Batallones. Sin embargo, en Batallones-1 se han hallado restos mandibulares y maxilares de un individuo juvenil perteneciente a una especie de bóvido de talla grande. En
M. Sánchez, V. Quiralte, J. Morales
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Microscopy Research and Technique, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 53-62, January 2023., 2023 Ossa cordis and os aorta in the camel. Abstract The present study describes the morphological characteristics of the camel heart Ossa cordis, and os aorta using computed tomography soft tissue window (CT) alongside 3D render volume reconstructions and light microscopy.
Samir A.A. El‐Gendy +5 more
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Estudios Geologicos, 2011 En esta nota describimos algunos de los restos del yacimiento del Mioceno inferior de Estrepouy (MN3, Francia) atribuidos por Roman & Viret (1934) a Amphitragulus aruelianensis, cambiando su asignación a Andegameryx andegaviensis Ginsburg, 1971.
V. Quiralte, J. Morales
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Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2018 Annualy, helminthic diseases are one of the causes of economic losses in agriculture. Ruminantia are most often observed to be infected with nematodes of the gastrointestinal tract, including Strongyloides papillosus and the representatives of the ...
O. O. Boyko, V. V. Brygadyrenko
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Mobile DNA, 2021 Background The majority of structural variation in genomes is caused by insertions of transposable elements (TEs). In mammalian genomes, the main TE fraction is made up of autonomous and non-autonomous non-LTR retrotransposons commonly known as LINEs and
Malte Petersen +5 more
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Effects of extrinsic factors on some rumination patterns: A review
Frontiers in Animal Science, 2022 The rumen and its activity, rumination, are the characterizing traits of the suborder Ruminantia, and it is accompanied by related feeding habits and consequent animal behavior.
Fabio Abeni
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