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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2015 Characterisations of the Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) diet during three distinguished seasons (monsoon, winter and summer) in the semi-arid region of western India was under study.
Tana P. MEWADA
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A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 A new genus and species of sloth (Eionaletherium tanycnemius gen. et sp. nov.) recently collected from the Late Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela (northern South America) is herein described based on a partial skeleton including associated femora and ...
Ascanio D. Rincón +4 more
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Genetic Variation, Structure, and Gene Flow in a Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) Meta-Population in the Satpura-Maikal Landscape of Central India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) are endemic to the Indian subcontinent. As a result of continued habitat loss and degradation over the past century, sloth bear populations have been in steady decline and now exist only in isolated or fragmented habitat ...
Trishna Dutta +4 more
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Sloth metabolism may make survival untenable under climate change scenarios [PDF]
PeerJAlthough climate change is predicted to have a substantial effect on the energetic requirements of organisms, the longer-term implications are often unclear.
Rebecca N. Cliffe +6 more
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Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America [PDF]
, 2018 Predator-prey interactions revealed by vertebrate trace fossils are extremely rare. We present footprint evidence from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico for the association of sloth and human trackways.
Allen, B.D. +14 more
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How sloths got their sloth [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Summary The evolution of sloths will have to be revised after two independent molecular studies contradicted the traditional view based on morphological evidence. The two surviving genera with their distinctive arboreal lifestyles and specialised diets are also important case studies in ecology and adaptation, while their lost relatives shed light on
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2013 We used information from systematic camera trapping surveys to study activity patterns of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats during November 2009 to April 2010.Overall 61 independent photographs were obtained from ...
T. Ramesh +3 more
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Parallel evolution of reduced cancer risk and tumor suppressor duplications in Xenarthra
eLife, 2022 The risk of developing cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species, but there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or lifespan between species indicating that large, long-lived species have evolved enhanced cancer ...
Juan Manuel Vazquez +5 more
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A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths
Land, 2023 Late Pleistocene sloths were widely distributed and present in a diversity of habitats in South, Central, and North America and some Caribbean Islands. Late Pleistocene sloths include 27 genera in four families Megatheriidae, Megalonychidae, Mylodontidae,
H. Gregory McDonald
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Is Patience a Virtue? Cosmic Censorship of Infrared Effects in de Sitter [PDF]
, 2017 While the accumulation of long wavelength modes during inflation wreaks havoc on the large scale structure of spacetime, the question of even observability of their presence by any local observer has lead to considerable confusion.
Ferreira, Ricardo Z. +2 more
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