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Recursive use of home ranges and seasonal shifts in foraging behavior by a generalist carnivore

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2022
Coyotes (Canis latrans) colonized the southeastern United States over the last century as large predators, including the red wolf (Canis rufus) and eastern cougar (Puma concolor), were extirpated from the region.
Jordan L. Youngmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathogen avoidance and prey discrimination in ants [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
Insect societies have developed sanitary strategies, one of which is the avoidance of infectious food resources as a primary line of defence. Using binary choices, we investigated whether Myrmica rubra ants can identify prey that has been artificially ...
Hugo Pereira, Claire Detrain
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption of Big Game Remains by Scavengers: A Potential Risk as Regards Disease Transmission in Central Spain

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
Understanding the role that facultative scavenger species may play in spreading infectious pathogens, and even becoming reservoirs for humans, domestic and wild ungulates or, on the contrary, preventing the spread of disease, requires a prior ...
Ricardo Carrasco-Garcia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Late Summer Peak and Scavenging-Dominant Metal Fluxes in Particulate Export Near a Seamount in the Western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2020
We measured sedimentation fluxes around JA06 Seamount (Xufu Guyot; 19°30′N, 158°00′E) as part of an environmental baseline survey in Japan’s exploration area for cobalt-rich crusts in the subtropical northwest Pacific. Sinking particles were collected at
Kyoko Yamaoka   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

An overview of stranded cetacean scavenging in Atlantic southern Africa since the Earlier Stone Age

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022
Along the southern African coastal plain, human occupation is documented since the end of the Early Pleistocene. The archaeological, palaeoenvironemental and ethnographic records suggest that in these arid to semi-arid landscapes where inland resources ...
Isis Mesfin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dining with a glutton: an intraguild interaction between scavenging wolverine (Gulo gulo) and lynx (Lynx canadensis)

open access: yesEcosphere, 2023
Intraspecific interactions between mesocarnivores are not commonly observed and consequentially not well understood, particularly for species inhabiting wilderness regions.
Thomas S. Jung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behaviour of free ranging wild boar towards their dead fellows: potential implications for the transmission of African swine fever [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2017
The behaviour of free ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa) towards carcasses of their conspecifics potentially infected with African swine fever (ASF) may significantly influence the course of an ASF epidemic. This study aims to better understand the behaviour
Carolina Probst   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of meteorology and source variation on airborne PM10 levels in a high relief tropical Andean city

open access: yesRevista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2015
Atmospheric particulate matter (PM10) was evaluated with meteorology, mixing height and source variation over a two year period (January 2010 to December 2012) in the densely populated tropical Andean city of Manizales.
Carlos Mario González-Duque   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

In-vitro antioxidant and anti-inflamatory activities of Pituranthos chloranthus and Artemisia vulgaris from Tunisia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Pituranthos chloranthus and Artemisia vulgaris L. are two of the most important aromatic and medicinal species from the Apiaceae and Asteraceae families, respectively. They are traditionally used in certain pathologies in which inflammatory processes are
AAZZA, Smail   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Phlorotannin Extracts from Fucales Characterized by HPLC-DAD-ESI-MSn: Approaches to Hyaluronidase Inhibitory Capacity and Antioxidant Properties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Purified phlorotannin extracts from four brown seaweeds (Cystoseira nodicaulis (Withering) M. Roberts, Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss, Cystoseira usneoides (Linnaeus) M.
Andrade, Paula   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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