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Animals, 2021 Tortoises belong to the taxonomic family Testudinidae, which is considered one of the most imperiled families of the order Testudines. Anesthesia is often required for the medical and surgical management of large tortoises.
Rachel C. Turner +6 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 The purpose of this study was to estimate the level of hard tick infestation in the tortoise subspecies Testudo hermanni boettgeri living within the free-range hills and mountains of four regions of central and south Albania.
Bejo Bizhga +5 more
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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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Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) are selective herbivores that track the flowering phenology of their preferred food plants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Previous studies of desert tortoise foraging ecology in the western Mojave Desert suggest that these animals are selective herbivores, which alter their diet according to the temporal availability of preferred food plants. These studies, however, did not
W Bryan Jennings, Kristin H Berry
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Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. LI. Ticks infesting leopard tortoises Stigmochelys pardalis, hingeback tortoises Kinixys zombensis and angulate tortoises Chersina angulata [PDF]
, 2017 All authors read and approved the manuscript. A.P. collected ticks from leopard tortoises and from angulate tortoises and ascertained the sites of attachment of ticks on angulate tortoises. K.J.L.
Horak, Ivan Gerard +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Nokuse Plantation, a 22,055 ha private conservation preserve in northwest Florida, is a recipient site for gopher tortoises translocated from development sites in Florida.
Rebecca A. Cozad +9 more
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Ancient mitogenomics elucidates diversity of extinct West Indian tortoises
Scientific Reports, 2021 We present 10 nearly complete mitochondrial genomes of the extinct tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum from the Bahamas. While our samples represent morphologically distinct populations from six islands, their genetic divergences were shallow and resembled ...
Christian Kehlmaier +5 more
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Endangered Species Research, 2023 We conducted population surveys for desert tortoises Gopherus agassizii at 2 nearby sites in the western Sonoran Desert of California, USA, from 2015-2018, during the driest ongoing 22 yr period (2000-2021) in the southwestern USA in over 1200 yr.
JE Lovich +5 more
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Crossmodal Pitch-Luminance Association in Tortoises. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciCrossmodal associations—spontaneous links between sensory modalities—are widely observed in humans. Similar associations have also been found in chimpanzees, monkeys, dogs, chickens, and tortoises, suggesting a shared cognitive strategy based on ...
Loconsole M +3 more
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Drivers of survival of translocated tortoises
, 2023 Translocation of animals, especially for threatened and endangered species, is a currently popular but very challenging activity. We translocated 158 adult Agassiz\u27s desert tortoises ( Gopherus agassizii ), a threatened species, from the National ...
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