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Drivers of Thermal Habitat Use in Turtles Studied Under Semi-Natural Conditions. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe quantify thermal habitat use in nine turtle species by recording environmental temperatures experienced by individuals in semi‐natural settings. Thermal habitat use differed among species and higher temperatures were generally used by larger animals, pointing to behavioral mechanisms that may influence species responses to environmental change. This
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Mycoplasma agassizii Multilocus Sequence Typing Using Nanopore Sequencing: Insights Into Genetic Diversity and Isolate Characterization. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciABSTRACT Mycoplasma agassizii (Mycoplasmopsis agassizii) is a major pathogen responsible for upper respiratory tract disease (URTD) in tortoises, contributing to worldwide population declines. Despite its significance, tools for strain‐level identification and epidemiological tracking remain limited.
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Zoodiversity, 2021 The study of the distribution of protected animal species in Europe is especially relevant in a changing climate. Therefore, in this work, we tried to solve the problem of the possibility of habitation of turtles Testudo graeca and Testudo hermanni in ...
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Natural History Sciences, 2020 The island of Lefkada is a popular and easily accessible tourist destination; nevertheless, there is no comprehensive checklist of its interesting herpetofauna.
Roberto Sindaco, Roberta Rossi
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Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Veterinary Medicine, 2020 This study was carried out in order to identify the different parasites (ecto and mesoparasites) infesting the tortoise Testudo graeca graeca. For this, a population of 24 tortoises was studied from mid-March to May 2018, in the region of Aflou-Laghouat,
Kheira LAKEHAL +7 more
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CRYPTOSPORIDIA IN ECTOTHERMS AND HUMAN CONTACTS [PDF]
Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 1994 Investigations were carried out on Cryptosporidiana protozoa infecting Ectotherms and their attendants in Giza zoological gardens, Giza governorate. Faecal samp < /strong>les were taken from one greek tortois (Testudo graeca), two Nile crocodile ...
NAHID H. GHONEIM +4 more
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HEMATOLOGICAL AND PARASITOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION IN TESTUDO GRAECA (LINNAEUS,1758) TORTOISE KEPT IN CAPTIVITY IN EGYPT [PDF]
Kafrelsheikh Veterinary Medical Journal, 2018 Chelonians (Turtle and Tortoise) are kept in captivity as pet animals. Testudo. graeca called Spur thighed tortoise for its large conical tubercle present on each Thigh.T. graeca considered endangered across its entire range. They were illegally imported
Adel E. A. Mohamed +3 more
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, 2020 Published as part of Sindaco, Roberto & Rossi, Roberta, 2020, Annotated checklist of the herpetofauna (Amphibia, Reptilia) of Lefkada Island (Ionian Islands, Greece), pp. 57-68 in Natural History Sciences 7 (2) on page 60, DOI: 10.4081/nhs.2020.480, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Sindaco, Roberto, Rossi, Roberta
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The escape behaviour of wild Greek tortoises Testudo graeca with and emphasis on geometrical shape discrimination [PDF]
, 2015 Geometrical shape discrimination has been shown to play an important role in the spatial orientation of a wide variety of mammals and birds, while the study of this ability in particular and of cognitive processes in general has been rather neglected in ...
Glavaschi, Alexandra, Beaumont, Ellen S.
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A new species of a bony spur-thighed tortoise from the Early Pliocene (MN15) of Jradzor site, Armenia, and the origin of the Testudo graeca (Testudines, Testudinidae) complex [PDF]
Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyThe origin of the Testudo graeca complex has been suggested to be in the Caucasus. Poor fossil records and incomplete preservation of available fossils limit deep-time reconstructions of the paleobiogeographic history of the complex.
Evangelos Vlachos, Davit Vasilyan
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