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Describes the Pine Tortoise Scale, its natural history, its impact on pine trees, and means of ...
Day, Eric R.
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Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat
Abstract Urbanization is expected to influence food transitions, resulting in a shift from wild foods to more domesticated foods. Concomitantly, food insecurity and urban demand for natural resources, including wildlife, are expected to increase overall, even when the per capita consumption is expected to decrease.
Willandia A. Chaves +7 more
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Mexican ceramic tortoise with a moving head.
The head of the tortoise bobs laboriously whenever he is touched. What a happy thought to paint the hare right onto the back of the tortoise!A scene of the hare running is painted on his back. 8" x 5½" x 4½" high. Purchased on Olivera Street in LA.
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This study introduces validated methods to predict sex ratios in wild Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests. It quantifies beach‐scale temperature heterogeneity, incorporates clutch‐level variation in thermal sensitivity and models temperature effects across the thermosensitive period, demonstrating how temporal temperature dynamics and spatial ...
Marc Girondot +3 more
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SOPTOM workshop: Le Luc-en-Provence (83, France). Chelonii 4: 147-150Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni boettgeri Mojsisovics, 1889) in Serbia, and generally in the Balkans, suffer high pressure of illegal collecting and export.
Golubović, Ana
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Daycare and home dust predominantly harbour commensal and environmental bacteria; however, a significant proportion remains unclassified, indicating routine childhood exposure to novel microorganisms. Both environments contain species with probiotic and immunostimulatory properties that may confer protection against non‐communicable diseases including ...
Jill A. McKay +2 more
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"Tortoises look and are old. They are the oldest of the living land reptiles, the surviving link between animal life in water and on land. Tortoise is the first cultural history of this long-lived and intriguing creature that has existed for more than ...
Young, Peter
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Mitochondrial fission‐fusion imbalance contributes to age‐related cardio‐cerebral diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Cerebral Infarction, Arteriosclerosis, Myocardial Infarction, Cardiac valve disease, Hypertension, and Cardiomyopathy. This review summarizes its regulatory mechanisms and interventions.
Yuyao Yin, Zijian Li
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What Achilles did and the tortoise wouldn't
What Achilles did and the tortoise wouldn'
Cathy Legg (13064532)
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Blood glucose is a key physiological indicator in sea turtles, but its measurement in field settings can be challenging. Portable point‐of‐care (POC) glucometers offer practicality, yet their agreement with reference laboratory methods has not been established for juvenile green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the Southwestern Atlantic.
YAA Pérez +16 more
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