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Why sloths defecate on the ground: rejection of the mutualistic model
Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2021 Introduction: Sloths are arboreal mammals that defecate on the ground, increasing the risk of predation. There are several hypotheses that try to explain why they undergo this risk.
Julian Monge Nájera
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IV.—On the Placentation of the Sloths [PDF]
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1873 Comparative Anatomists have long been desirous to obtain detailed information on the Placentation of the Sloths. The only observations on this subject which appear to have been made up to this time have been recorded by Professor Rudolphi of Berlin, and Dr C. G. Carus of Dresden.
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The metabolic response of the Bradypus sloth to temperature [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Poikilotherms and homeotherms have different, well-defined metabolic responses to ambient temperature (Ta), but both groups have high power costs at high temperatures.
Rebecca Naomi Cliffe +5 more
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Fecal estradiol and progesterone metabolite levels in the three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2006 The present study was carried out to assess the possibility of measuring fecal steroid hormone metabolites as a noninvasive technique for monitoring reproductive function in the three-toed sloth, Bradypus variegatus.
M. Mühlbauer +3 more
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Sloth: Threads as Interrupts [PDF]
2009 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2009 Traditional operating systems differentiate between threads, which are managed by the kernel scheduler, and interrupt handlers, which are scheduled by the hardware. This approach is not only asymmetrical in its nature, but also introduces problems relevant to real-time systems because low-priority interrupt handlers can interrupt high-priority threads.
Wanja Hofer +3 more
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Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.Shewanella oneidensis and Bacillus subtilis, both harboring prophages, reveal a novel biosynthetic route to scalable and programmable DNA superstructures in flower‐ and wire‐like shapes, respectively. Activation of prophages is achieved via 3‐hour starvation and monitored using reporter strains.
Gabriel Antonio S. Minero +7 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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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Primates show a high degree of locomotor diversity that engenders similar variance in limb bone cross‐sectional geometry and bending strength: leaping primates have stronger hindlimb bones whereas suspensory species have stronger forelimb bones.
Angela M. Mossor +7 more
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Post-Release Ecology of Rehabilitated Hoffmanns\u27 Two-toed Sloths in Panamá
, 2021 The field of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation continues to grow as human expansion increases the rate of deforestation in Latin America. Wild animals that are often rescued from becoming orphaned or injured are rehabilitated in captivity until ...
Morton, Chelsea Nicole
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background Sloths are slow-moving arboreal mammals inhabiting tropical rainforests in Central and South America. The six living species of sloths are occasionally reported to display a greenish discoloration of their pelage.
Chiarello Adriano G +7 more
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