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Livestock and the functional habitat of vicuñas in Ecuador: a new puzzle [PDF]

open access: yesEcosphere, 2018
Whether interactions between wildlife and livestock are competitive or facilitative is context dependent. Intermediary factors that explain how context (seasonal or regional characteristics of the ecological community) affects these interactions are ...
Brian E. McLaren   +2 more
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Energy balance of pregnant vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in the Chilean High Andes [PDF]

open access: yesAustral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2019
Energy unbalance may be the cause of low fertility rates found in vicuñas. The objective of this study was to estimate the temporal variation of the nutritional status in pregnant vicuñas from a herd kept under captivity in the Chilean High Andes.
Cecilia Norambuena   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Seropositivity to Leptospira interrogans in a herd of vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) under captivity in northern Chile [PDF]

open access: yesAustral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2020
Twenty-one vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) from a Chilean breeding unit were tested to serovars Pomona, Canicola, Copenhageni, Ballum and Grippotyphosa of Leptospira interrogans using the microscopic microagglutination technique.
Cecilia Norambuena   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Explorando la variabilidad morfométrica del conjunto de camélidos pequeños durante el Arcaico Tardío y el Formativo Temprano en Quebrada Tulán, norte de Chile

open access: yesRevista del Museo de Antropologia, 2009
Frecuentemente en el registro arqueofaunístico de sitios arqueológicos ubicados en la vertiente occidental de la puna de Atacama, es posible diferenciar un conjunto de camélidos grandes y otro de menor tamaño. En general, el grupo de camélidos grandes ha
Isabel Cartajena Fasting
doaj   +5 more sources

Parasitological status of vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) from southeastern Peru and its relationship with fiber quality

open access: yes, 2021
We aim to describe the parasitic population in vicuñas from three Andean communities and its relationship with fiber quality using 115 fecal and 22 fiber samples, classified according to sex, age, body condition score, and management system ...
Arias-Pacheco, Carmen [UNESP]   +5 more
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Food limitation reduces risk avoidance by prey, but does not increase kill rates in a simple predator–prey system

open access: yesEcosphere, 2023
Prey often induce antipredator behaviors when balancing food acquisition against safety. The starvation–predation hypothesis (SPH) posits that, during food shortages, the risk of starvation requires prey to forego antipredator behavior to increase ...
Francisco J. Molina   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Documento Técnico para el Manejo de Sarna en Vicuñas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
El presente documento técnico fue elaborado utilizando información técnica-científica obtenida durante el proyecto de investigación "Sarna en vicuñas" el cual fué implementado de forma conjunta con el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) y con la ...
Servicio Nacional Foresal y de Fauna Silvestre
core   +1 more source

De bienes comunes bioculturales a commodities: un análisis comparado del litio y de la fibra de vicuña en los Andes

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2022
Vicuñas and salt flats have been part of the biocultural heritage of the people living on the Altiplano since immemorial times. In recent decades, both common pool resources have undergone a commodification process for the extraction of lithium and ...
Rodrigo Azócar, Gabriela Lichtenstein
doaj   +1 more source

The vicuñas and their contribution as natural heritage to biocultural tourism of Salta and Jujuy (Arg.) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Con el objetivo de demostrar la importancia que tienen las vicuñas como recurso natural para el desarrollo del turismo biocultural se realizaron entrevistas y registro de campo a fin de obtener información e imágenes de productos turísticos del noroeste ...
Moya, María Florencia   +1 more
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Vicuñas y humanos en el pasado reciente (siglos XIX y XX) del oeste tinogasteño (Catamarca, Argentina)

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Antropología, 2020
Este trabajo explora la percepción sobre las vicuñas de los pobladores del oeste tinogaste-ño (Catamarca, Argentina) del pasado reciente (siglos XIX y XX).
Juan Pablo Miyano, Norma Ratto
doaj   +1 more source

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