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Efficacy of an inflatable deterrent for reducing New World vulture human-wildlife conflict. [PDF]
Sci RepIncreasing urbanization coupled with spatial expansion and numerical increase of New World vulture populations has engendered a rise in human-vulture conflict, creating a need for effective tools to mitigate vulture-related damage.
Kluever BM +3 more
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Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 Obligate scavenging on the dead and decaying animal matter is a rare dietary specialization that in extant vertebrates is restricted to vultures. These birds perform essential ecological services, yet many vulture species have undergone recent steep ...
Dahu Zou +8 more
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Ambio, 2021 In recent decades, intensive techniques of livestock raising have flourished, which has largely replaced traditional farming practices such as transhumance.
Natividad Aguilera-Alcalá +7 more
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Why Did the Bee Eat the Chicken? Symbiont Gain, Loss, and Retention in the Vulture Bee Microbiome
mBio, 2021 When asked where to find bees, people often picture fields of wildflowers. While true for almost all species, there is a group of specialized bees, also known as the vulture bees, that instead can be found slicing chunks of meat from carcasses in ...
L. Figueroa +4 more
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Bird conservation international, 2021 Summary Vulture populations are in severe decline across Africa and prioritization of geographic areas for their conservation is urgently needed. To do so, we compiled three independent datasets on vulture occurrence from road-surveys, GPS-tracking, and ...
Evan R. Buechley +17 more
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Health assessment of raptors in triage in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, 2013 Falconiformes (n=82), Strigiformes (n=84) and Cathartiformes (n=14) at a triage center (CETAS-Belo Horizonte, IBAMA, Brazil) were examined between 2008 and 2010 .
D de A Andery +9 more
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Distribution of vultures in Uttar Pradesh, India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015 As carrion feeders vultures play an important ecological role. Counts and qualitative assessments were done over three seasons to assess the richness and abundance of vultures in Uttar Pradesh during 2010–11.
Kaushalendra Kumar Jha
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 Understanding the role that facultative scavenger species may play in spreading infectious pathogens, and even becoming reservoirs for humans, domestic and wild ungulates or, on the contrary, preventing the spread of disease, requires a prior ...
Ricardo Carrasco-Garcia +4 more
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The Preliminary Results of 2021 and 2023 Egyptian Vulture Breeding Monitoring in Armenia
Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2023 The Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is one of the four breeding vulture species in Armenia. The most recent information on the status of the Egyptian Vulture population in Armenia can be found in the latest edition of the Red Data Book of the ...
Lusine H. Aghadjanyan +1 more
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Assessment of Population Status and Diurnal Behaviour of White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) in Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2023 Vulture Safe Feeding Sites (VSFS) provide diclofenac-free food and create an ideal environment for long-term ecological research on vultures. This study determines the population status and investigates the diurnal behavior White-rumped Vulture (Gyps ...
Anju Koirala +5 more
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