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Wolves in the City of Domesticated Women: The Queer Wild of Olivia Rosenthal

open access: yesNew Horizons in English Studies, 2021
In 2009, in the city of Nantes, a pack of six wolves was released in a public park as part of Stéphane Thidet’s art installation. A book of short stories accompanied the event.
Paulina Szymonek
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The Effect of Domestication and Experience on the Social Interaction of Dogs and Wolves With a Human Companion

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The results of current wolf-dog studies on human-directed behaviors seem to suggest that domestication has acted on dogs’ general attitudes and not on specific socio-cognitive skills.
Martina Lazzaroni   +5 more
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Subsidized Fencing of Livestock as a Means of Increasing Tolerance for Wolves

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2011
Studies of how proactive measures to reduce livestock depredation by carnivores affect human tolerance toward carnivores are extremely rare. Nevertheless, substantial amounts of money are spent each year on proactive measures to facilitate large ...
Jens Karlsson, Magnus Sjöström
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Using ungulate biomass to estimate abundance of wolves in British Columbia

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2014
Management of wolves (Canis lupus) in British Columbia, as with most other Canadian provinces, is conducted on a regional scale (38,557–252,776 km2), yet there is no standardized, cost‐effective methodology for providing reliable estimates of wolf ...
Gerald W. Kuzyk, Ian W. Hatter
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Wolves and Dogs May Rely on Non-numerical Cues in Quantity Discrimination Tasks When Given the Choice

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
A wide array of species throughout the animal kingdom has shown the ability to distinguish between quantities. Aside from being important for optimal foraging decisions, this ability seems to also be of great relevance in group-living animals as it ...
Dániel Rivas-Blanco   +6 more
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The genetic legacy of extirpation and re-colonization in Vancouver Island wolves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Hybridization between wild and domestic species is of conservation concern because it can result in the loss of adaptations and/or disappearance of a distinct taxon.
Darimont, Chris T.   +3 more
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Non-Contact Heart Rate Measurement Based on Adaptive Notch Filter and Elimination of Respiration Harmonics

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Continuous-wave Doppler radar is an established method for non-contact heart rate estimation. The output signal of the Doppler radar includes the fundamental wave of a heartbeat, heartbeat harmonics, the fundamental wave of respiration, respiration ...
Moushumi Tazen   +2 more
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Species-specific differences and similarities in the behavior of hand-raised dog and wolf pups in social situations with humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In order to reveal early species-specific differences, we observed the behavior of dog puppies (n = 11) and wolf pups (n = 13) hand raised and intensively socialized in an identical way.
Belyaev   +47 more
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Daily activity patterns of wolves in open habitats in the Dauria ecoregion, Russia

open access: yesNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2021
There are very little data about daily activity patterns of Canis lupus (hereinafter – wolf) living in open arid habitats with low human density in Dauria.
Anastasia V. Kirilyuk   +2 more
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How Stakeholder Co-management Reproduces Conservation Conflicts: Revealing Rationality Problems in Swedish Wolf Conservation

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2015
'Stakeholder' has become the primary category of political actor in decision-making, not least within nature conservation. Drawing from Habermas' theory on communicative action, this article argues that there are democratic deficits to the stakeholder ...
Erica von Essen, Hans Peter Hansen
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