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Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern.
Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi, Stephen M. Redpath, Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Uma Ramakrishnan, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Sophie C. Smout, Charudutt Mishra   +6 more
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Nyctereutes terblanchei: The raccoon dog that never was [PDF]

, 2012
Fossils of the raccoon dog (genus Nyctereutes) are particularly rare in the African PlioPleistocene record, whilst the sole living representative, Nyctereutes procyonoides, is found in eastern Asia and parts of Europe. In southern Africa, only one fossil
Reynolds, Sally C.
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Comparative Ecology of Bartonella and Brucella Infections in Wild Carnivores

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
Phylogenetic sister clades Bartonella and Brucella within the order Rhizobiales present some common biological characteristics as well as evident differences in adaptations to their mammalian reservoirs.
Michael Kosoy, Irina Goodrich
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Do carnivore surveys match reports of carnivore presence by pastoralists? A case of the eastern Serengeti ecosystem

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Human-carnivore encounters are common where humans and wild carnivores share the same landscape. The frequency of such encounters gives insight regarding carnivore density and might correlate with human-carnivore conflict incidences.
Franco P. Mbise, Craig R. Jackson, Richard Lyamuya, Robert Fyumagwa, Peter S. Ranke, Eivin Røskaft   +5 more
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Community attitudes towards Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) and their prey species in Yanbian, Jilin province, a region of northeast China where tigers are returning.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Community attitudes towards large carnivores are of central importance to their conservation in human-dominated landscapes. In this study, we evaluate community attitudes and perceptions towards the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), Amur leopard ...
Ying Li, Joshua Powell, Aifen Jin, Hee Kyung Ryoo, Hailong Li, Puneet Pandey, Weihong Zhu, Dongwei Li, Hang Lee   +8 more
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Ecological thresholds and large carnivores conservation: Implications for the Amur tiger and leopard in China [PDF]

, 2020
The ecological threshold concept describes how changes in one or more factors at thresholds can result in a large shift in the state of an ecosystem. This concept focuses attention on limiting factors that affect the tolerance of systems or organisms and
Holyoak, M, Jiang, G, Ning, Y, Qi, J
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Zoonotic Genotypes of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in Wild Living Invasive and Native Carnivores in Poland

Pathogens, 2021
Wild carnivores, both introduced and native species, are able to adapt well to peri-urban environments, facilitating cross-species pathogen transmission with domestic animals, and potentially humans.
Agnieszka Perec-Matysiak, Kinga Leśniańska, Katarzyna Buńkowska-Gawlik, Dorota Merta, Marcin Popiołek, Joanna Hildebrand   +5 more
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Absence of infection by Trichinella spp. (Nematoda: Trichinellidae) in free-living wild carnivores in Brazil

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
BackgroundNematodes of the genus Trichinella are foodborne zoonotic pathogens that are widespread globally. These parasites have two epidemiological cycles, domestic and sylvatic, with the latter having wild carnivores as the main reservoirs of the ...
Lívia de Oliveira Andrade, Patricia Parreira Perin, Carmen Andrea Arias-Pacheco, Camilla de Souza Amorim, Fernanda Lefort, Fernanda Mara Aragão Macedo Pereira, Lauro Leite Soares-Neto, Antonio de Pádua Bordignon Fernandes, Wilson Junior Oliveira, Ricardo Shoiti Ichikawa, André Luiz Mota da Costa, Paulo Henrique Peira Ruffino, Karin Werther, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe   +13 more
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Epidemiological and Molecular Approaches for a Fatal Feline Panleukopenia Virus Infection of Captive Siberian Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in the Republic of Korea

Animals, 2023
Feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), a member of the species Protoparvovirus carnivoran1, is one of the most fatal pathogens of domestic and wild carnivores.
Yong-Gu Yeo, Hye-Ryung Kim, Jonghyun Park, Jong-Min Kim, Yeun-Kyung Shin, Kyoung-Ki Lee, Oh-Kyu Kwon, Hye-Young Jeoung, Hae-Eun Kang, Bok-Kyung Ku, Seung-Chun Park, Oh-Deog Kwon, Choi-Kyu Park   +12 more
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A novel record of aardwolf Proteles cristata feeding behaviour [PDF]

, 2013
Terrestrial members of the order Carnivora show great variation in their diet; some specialising on vertebrates, invertebrates, or plant matter, whereas others are omnivores or scavengers (Bekoff et al, 1984).
MacTavish, L, Yarnell, RW
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