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Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered Prednisolone in Alpacas
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 This study aimed to determine the pharmacokinetics of prednisolone following intravenous and oral administration in healthy adult alpacas. Healthy adult alpacas were given prednisolone (IV, n = 4), as well as orally (PO, n = 6).
Ricardo Videla +5 more
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Capturing and radio ear‐tagging neonatal vicuñas
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012 We used and evaluated the effectiveness of a hand‐capture technique to capture and mark neonatal vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) at San Guillermo National Park, west‐central Argentina. We captured and marked 98 neonates during 5–31 January, 2008–2010.
Emiliano Donadio +4 more
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Pastoralism, 2022 Vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) were at risk of extinction due to indiscriminate hunting for their fibre in the mid-twentieth century. The conservation of the species included numerous international and regional legal mechanisms, as well as the will and care ...
Bibiana Vilá, Yanina Arzamendia
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, 2019 The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) is the most representative wild ungulate of the high Andes of South America with two recognized morphological subspecies, V. v. mensalis in the north and V. v. vicugna in the south of its distribution.
Jorge Cortés (2280565) +11 more
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Gayana, 2020 We described and compared the diets of two sympatric Andean camelids, during the humid season (austral summer) in a site of Northern Chile, in presence of domestic livestock.
Carlos Tirado +3 more
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Coproparasitological evaluation of nematodes and coccidia in a wild vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) population in the Argentinean Andean Altiplano [PDF]
, 2016 A parasite screening evaluation was conducted to determine the presence of gastrointestinal nematodes and coccidia in wild vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna vicugna) from Jujuy, in Argentina´s Andean Altiplano.
Morici, Gabriel +4 more
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, 2011 4. Alpaca Vicugna pacos French: Alpaca / German: Alpaka / Spanish: Alpaca Taxonomy. Camelus pacos Linnaeus, 1758, Peru. The Alpaca is a domesticated camelid indigenous and endemic to South America, well known for the characteristics of its fine-diameter wool: soft, silky, high luster, lightweight, and warm.
Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
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Utilización racional de la vicuña silvestre en Perú
Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 1979 Ningún otro mamífero silvestre de los Andes es tan conocido como la vicuña (Vicugna vicugna Molina 1782). Este esbelto, y llamativo animal siempre ha ocupado un lugar destacado tanto en las canciones, leyendas y narraciones populares, como en la ...
K. C. Otte, R. K. Hofmann
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, 2009 We present the results of a palaeogenetic analysis of two Late Pleistocene camelids originating in southern Chile. Our analysis of two mitochondrial DNA fragments (control region and cytochrome b gene) reveals that these specimens do not belong to an ...
Prieto, Alfredo +6 more
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Helminthiasis in vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in the district of Contumaza (Cajamarca, Peru)
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú, 2022 The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and burden of gastrointestinal helminths in vicuñas in the district of Contumaza, Cajamarca, as well as to determine their association with the variables of age and sex and to identify the parasitic genera.
Curay C., Joao +3 more
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