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Automating the analysis of public saliency and attitudes toward biodiversity from digital media

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Measuring public attitudes toward wildlife provides crucial insights into human relationships with nature and helps monitor progress toward Global Biodiversity Framework targets. Yet, conducting such assessments at a global scale presents challenges.
Noah Giebink, Amrita Gupta, Diogo Veríssimo, Charlotte H. Chang, Tony Chang, Angela Brennan, Brett G. Dickson, Alex Bowmer, Jonathan Baillie   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dangers with Dogmas in Higher Education: Revisiting Dewey's Relationship between Purpose, Academic Freedom, Science, and Faith

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
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The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]

, 2019
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Payne, Jonathan L., Smith, Felisa A., Villaseñor, Amelia   +4 more
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Jungian categories as modes of reading: The case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay advocates renewed attention toward Jungian literary criticism, emphasizing its unique and creative perspectives on both fictional worlds and on reading. A fresh turn to Jungian criticism offers, in particular, valuable insight for texts on the peripheries of the canon.
Edsel Parke
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Whose line is it anyway? Enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon [PDF]

, 2012
This piece effects a critical revision of the interactions between late Foucault and the works of Thomas Pynchon through the theme of Enlightenment, a relationship far more nuanced than granted by current appraisals. Examining resistance, revolution, and
Eve, Martin Paul
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Conservation status, feeding guilds, and diversity of birds in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Karnataka, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2021
The present study was carried out to investigate the importance of habitat quality for the diversity, distribution, and abundance of avifauna in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Ballari District from February 2015 to January 2016.
M. Harisha, K. Samad, B. Hosetti
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A suture in time: The ontogeny of cranial suture morphology in mammals

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 248, Issue 3, Page 501-516, March 2026.
Mammal cranial sutures are important indicators of the biomechanical and developmental pressures acting upon the skull. Across three prominent sutures dividing the vault of the mammalian skull, divergent patterns emerge both taxonomically and developmentally.
Heather E. White, Marco Camaiti, Abigail S. Tucker, Akinobu Watanabe, Anjali Goswami   +4 more
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Mandible size and shape in extant Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia): A tool for taxonomy and ecogeography [PDF]

, 2017
The family Ursidae is currently one of the taxonomic groups with the lowest number of species among Carnivora. Extant bear species exhibit broad ecological adaptations both at inter- and intraspecific level, and taxonomic issues within this family remain
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Captive Sloth Bears in Karnataka

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2021
Tuberculosis (TB) is contagious disease of zoonotic importance. The disease is caused by organisms belonging to the Mycobacterium spp. The important species responsible for TB are M. bovis, M. tuberculosis and M. avium. Mycobacteria infect a broad range of species including humans, wild mammals and birds in captivity and free-living state. Diagnosis of
S. Shylaja K. Nagaraj, C. Renuka Prasad M. Narayan Bhat, D. Venkatesh S. M. Byregowda   +2 more
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Emotional and attitudinal responses to social media depictions of human–wildlife interactions at wildlife tourist attractions

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs) can permit interactions between humans and wildlife that are detrimental to the animals’ welfare and species conservation. Social media portraying human–wildlife interactions could affect people's perceptions of their acceptability and desirability or stimulate demand for detrimental practices.
T. P. Moorhouse, A. Elwin, N. C. D'Cruze
wiley   +1 more source