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Observations of Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae) in the wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus is crepuscular in habit and rarely encountered.  Information on its natural history and ecology is limited and consequently its conservation requirements are not well understood.  We report observations of a Brown Mongoose
Vignesh Kamath, Kadaba Shamanna Seshadri
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Vertebrate scavenging dynamics differ between carnivore and herbivore carcasses in the northern boreal forest

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
Vertebrate scavenging can impact food web dynamics, but our understanding of this process stems predominantly from monitoring herbivore carrion and extrapolating results across carcass types.
Michael J. L. Peers   +7 more
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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
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The governance of waste: formal and informal rules in the central region of Mexico

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2018
Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) is the strategy for waste policy in Mexico. It entails a complex reorganization of waste services that disrupts preceding action systems and ignores previous local practices, such as scavenging, an informal ...
Nancy Merary Jiménez-Martínez
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Appraisal of antioxidant potential and biological studies of bogan bail (Bougainvillea glabra) leaf extracts using different solvents

open access: yesCzech Journal of Food Sciences, 2021
Current research work was performed to evaluate the antioxidant, antidiabetic, thrombolytic, and cytotoxic potential of Bougainvillea glabra leaf extracts with different solvents.
Muhammad Riaz   +6 more
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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
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Occurrence of ESBL- and AmpC-Producing E. coli in French Griffon Vultures Feeding on Extensive Livestock Carcasses

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2023
Despite the fact that the selective pressure of antibiotics on wild birds is supposed to be very weak, they are considered potential vectors of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Marisa Haenni   +7 more
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Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of Potential Antioxidant Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Novel Synthetic Flavonoid

open access: yesBLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, 2020
Background: Natural products like flavonoids from the natural or synthetic origin are known to possess anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory activities. However, there is few/no experimental proof presently available regarding these.
Prabhulingayya S Bhixavatimath   +2 more
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Risk from a top predator and forest structure influence scavenging by smaller carnivores

open access: yesEcosphere, 2023
Large carcasses often attract multiple carnivore species, so subordinate carnivores must weigh the reward of a profitable meal with the risk of being attacked by dominant carnivores.
Alex J. Jensen   +4 more
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