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Human activities and climate change are the main factors of amphibian extinction

Global Ecology and Conservation
Human activities and climate change directly influencing species distribution and species richness leading to approximately 41 % of the ∼ 8009 Amphibian species being threatened with extinction.
Zhong Chen, Yuan-Sheng Cao, Meng-Sheng Dong, Wen-Bo Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infants as Social Magnets: The Influence of Births on Social Interactions in Redfronted Lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Infant survival is an important component of parental fitness in iteroparous species with slow life histories. From the infant's perspective, survival can be more or less directly influenced by the social environment, with group members potentially representing either a threat or a buffer against external stressors.
Amrei Pfaff, Claudia Fichtel, Peter M. Kappeler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mycobiota of faeces from the critically endangered kākāpō and associated nest litter

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 171-192, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The critically endangered kākāpō is a flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. During the 2019 breeding season multiple kākāpō on Whenua Hou, an island with one of the largest kākāpō populations, contracted the respiratory fungal disease aspergillosis.
Annie G. West, Andrew Digby, Kākāpō Recovery Team, Kākāpō Aspergillosis Research Consortium, Michael W. Taylor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mixed fortunes: ancient expansion and recent decline in population size of a subtropical montane primate, the Arunachal macaque Macaca munzala.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Quaternary glacial oscillations are known to have caused population size fluctuations in many temperate species. Species from subtropical and tropical regions are, however, considerably less studied, despite representing most of the biodiversity hotspots
Debapriyo Chakraborty, Anindya Sinha, Uma Ramakrishnan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Range‐Wide Assessment of the Tasmanian Devil Gut Microbiome

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.
We conducted a comprehensive assessment of gut microbiomes at 10 locations across Tasmania, utilizing molecular methods such as 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and diet metabarcoding to investigate the influences of diet, location, sex, and age. Contrary to the prevailing notion that diet is a main driver of gut microbiome differences, we found that ...
Meadhbh M. Molloy, Elspeth A. McLennan, Samantha Fox, Katherine Belov, Carolyn J. Hogg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alien range size, habitat breadth, origin location, and domestication of alien species matter to their impact risks

Integrative Zoology, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 520-534, May 2025.
We collected information on 1071 established alien terrestrial vertebrate species (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) and created a comprehensive database of 108 alien species to assess their impact risks and examined the generality of relationships between the impact risks and species characteristics.
Siqi WANG, Wenhao LI, Jiaqi ZHANG, Zexu LUO, Yiming LI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitogenomes of museum specimens provide new insight into species classification and recently reduced diversity of highly endangered Nomascus gibbons

Integrative Zoology, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 674-684, May 2025.
Our findings reveal that the western black crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor) did not divide into different subspecies, and the relatively low level of genetic diversity emphasizes the importance of monitoring this indicator for vulnerable wildlife.
Siqiong LIU, Kexin LI, Yuxin ZHENG, Jiayang XUE, Sheng WANG, Song LI, Peng CAO, Feng LIU, Qingyan DAI, Xiaotian FENG, Ruowei YANG, Wanjing PING, Dongdong WU, Pengfei FAN, Qiaomei FU, Zehui CHEN   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social and Life History Strategies of Tibetan Macaques at Mt. Huangshan [PDF]

, 2019
Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) are just beginning to be known in primatology, but some unique aspects of their morphology, ecology, behavior, and phylogeny indicate that they can play an important role in comparative studies of macaques. Here, we present a summary of their social and life history strategies based on continuous observation over ...
Jin-Hua Li, Peter M. Kappeler
openaire   +1 more source

Interchange between grooming and infant handling in female Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana).

Zoological research, 2018
In some nonhuman primates, infants function as a social tool that can bridge relationships among group members. Infants are a desired commodity for group members, and mothers control access to them. The biological market theory suggests that grooming is widespread and represents a commodity that can be exchanged for infant handling.
Jiang, Qi, Xia, Dong-Po, Wang, Xi, Zhang, Dao, Sun, Bing-Hua, Li, Jin-Hua   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A neuroscience perspective on the plasticity of the social and relational brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1547, Issue 1, Page 52-74, May 2025.
This review discusses both the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of human social brains that support social emotions, such as empathy and compassion, and socio‐cognitive capacities, such as theory of mind. Abstract Over the past two decades, the fields of social and contemplative neurosciences have made significant strides. Initial research
Tania Singer
wiley   +1 more source