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Breeding seasonality of Tylopoda: Expected patterns in Old World camelids but an exceptional pattern in South American camelids. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pauli N, Roller M, Clauss M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Home ranges, feeding sites, and daily movement behavior of the highly threatened Livingstone's fruit bat revealed through GPS tracking

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Livingstone's fruit bat GPS tracks during day‐ and nighttime on Anjouan, Comoros, identifying likely feeding sites. Abstract The highly threatened Livingstone's fruit bat, Pteropus livingstonii, is endemic to only two islands of the Union of the Comoros, a country with some of the highest deforestation rates worldwide.
Isabella Mandl, Badrane Ben Ali Abdou, Ishaka Said, Teague O'Mara, Jon Flanders, Sourette Said Ali Chaihane, Owen T. Lewis, Misbahou Mohamed, Hugh Doulton   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced surveillance to assess the presence of Sindbis and Batai virus in mosquito populations at an urban zoo in the United Kingdom. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Jagdev M, Parekh I, Bruce RC, Spiro S, Johnston CJ, Abbott AJ, Ethan Wrigglesworth, Pearce-Kelly P, Vaux AGC, Medlock JM, Johnson N, Folly AJ, Schilling M.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cold‐blooded commerce: Characterizing and predicting trade in Australian squamates

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Despite a national ban on native wildlife exports, Australian reptile species continue to appear in international trade. Using boosted regression trees, we found that large body sizes and taxonomic family, rather than color or patterning, best predicted trade presence. We identified 59 species likely to be targeted in the future, providing key insights
Sebastian Chekunov, Rodolfo O. Anderson, Thomas A. A. Prowse, John Measey, Adam Toomes, Phillip Cassey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne DNA and Spider Webs Outperform Other eDNA Sources for Monitoring Terrestrial Vertebrates. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
Newton JP, Allentoft ME, Bateman PW, Nevill P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Museum Guests Think About When They Think About Belonging

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A sense of belonging is one of the most fundamental human needs and is threaded through all aspects of a museum guest's experience. Using a previously validated model and survey of belonging in museums, we surveyed 1780 guests leaving eight different museums and similar cultural institutions across the United States.
C. Aaron Price, L. Applebaum, K. Sepp, P. Yee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: The Science and Practice of Captive Animal Welfare

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Bonnie M. Perdue, Sally L. Sherwen, Terry L. Maple   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Visitor Path Choice and Enhancing Wayfinding in Museums: A Critical Review of a Century of Research

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paths taken by visitors in museums influence what they see, do, learn, and experience. Poorly designed museums can lead to missed goals and opportunities. In this article, I critically review visitor studies published since the 1930s to evaluate explanations for visitor path choice in museums, namely, the location and attractiveness of ...
Gareth Davey
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Hand-Rearing and Group Size on Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Social Competence in Captivity. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Murray LE.
europepmc   +1 more source

PERIPHERY TO CENTRE STAGE: THE SARRASANI CIRCUS IN WEIMAR GERMANY

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The modern European circus was more than just entertainment: it was a powerful platform where fantasies of empire, ideas of national identity, and notions of racial difference came together and were put on public display. In interwar Germany, the Sarrasani Circus — the largest circus enterprise in the country at the time — built on the legacy ...
Sabine Hanke
wiley   +1 more source