Gagliardo, Anna Cioccarelli, Sara Giunchi, Dimitri Pollonara, Enrica Colombo, Silvia Casini, Giovanni Bingman, Verner P
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Behavioural brain research
The aim of this study was to exploit detailed analyses of GPS-recorded tracks to better characterise the impact of hippocampal (HF) lesion on spatial memory and perception in the context of homing pigeon navigation when reliant on familiar landscape features near the home loft following repeated releases from the same three locations. As reported p...
Rodrigues, Anaïs Gaffard, Agathe Moreau, Jérôme Monceau, Karine Delhomme, Olivier Millet, Maurice
In this study, blood and plasma of grey partridges ( Perdix perdix) were analyzed to assess their potential contamination by plant protection products (PPP) and especially pesticide compounds.The group of pesticides selected is composed of a huge variety of compounds. Therefore, in this study, two methods were optimized and validated to analyze 104...
Sunnebo, Jessica
This thesis, Birdpoetic Worlds: Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren’s bird poems, analyses a selection of poems by Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) from the collection Högt ärade trana: Nya dikter och urval av tidigare poesi* (2012), through the lens of ecocriticism and animism. The aim is to identify and explore how h...
Benito, Juan Chen, Albert Wilson, Laura E Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S Burnham, David Field, Daniel J
Ichthyornis has long been recognized as a pivotally important fossil taxon for understanding the latest stages of the dinosaur-bird transition, but little significant new postcranial material has been brought to light since initial descriptions of partial skeletons in the 19th Century. Here, we present new information on the postcranial morphology ...
Meira, Jaqueline E S Nogueira-Filho, Sérgio L G Mendl, Michael Lima, Stella G C Fureix, Carole Nogueira, Selene S C
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Behavioural processes
Environmental enrichment (EE) is used to promote natural behaviours in captive animals and may hold promise as a form of pre-release training, a strategy for improving coping skills of translocated birds. We investigated the use of EE to enhance foraging and vigilance behaviours of captive Sporophila angolensis, which may be related to post-release...
Lumbierres, Maria Dahal, Prabhat Raj Soria, Carmen D Di Marco, Moreno Butchart, Stuart H M Donald, Paul F Rondinini, Carlo
Area of Habitat (AOH) is "the habitat available to a species, that is, habitat within its range". It complements a geographic range map for a species by showing potential occupancy and reducing commission errors. AOH maps are produced by subtracting areas considered unsuitable for the species from their range map, using information on each species'...
Simões, Mariana B Alves, Philippe V López-Hernández, Danimar Couto, Elimayke A Moreira, Narcisa I B Pinto, Hudson A
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International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife
Despite the recent advances raised in the molecular era to the taxonomic knowledge of species of the family Clinostomidae, especially those belonging to the specious genus Clinostomum, some groups of these vertebrate parasites remain poorly studied. This is the case of species of the enigmatic genus Ithyoclinostomum Witenberg, 1926, until recently ...
Lloyd-Jones, David J St Clair, James J H Cram, Dominic L Yassene, Orlando van der Wal, Jessica E M Spottiswoode, Claire N
Many mutualisms are exploited by third-party species, which benefit without providing anything in return. Exploitation can either destabilize or promote mutualisms, via mechanisms that are highly dependent on the ecological context. Here we study a remarkable bird-human mutualism, in which wax-eating greater honeyguides (Indicator indicator) guide ...
Molini, Umberto De Villiers, Mari De Villiers, Lourens Coetzee, Lauren M Hoebes, Elfriede Khaiseb, Siegfried Cattoli, Giovanni Dundon, William G Franzo, Giovanni
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Acta tropica
The commercial farming and trading of parrots and ornamental birds as companion animals are important economic activities in many countries. Some of the bird species farmed/traded are captured from the wild or are closely related to wild birds and therefore represent a risk of pathogen exchange/introduction. Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) an...
Rodhouse, Thomas J. Daw, Sonya
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Frontiers for Young Minds
Migrating animals are good at making long trips between seasons. These trips can be dangerous, and scientists monitor migrators in United States National Parks to help detect dangers and find solutions. However, migrators are challenging to monitor. Sometimes they only stay in a park for a few days. This might require a scramble to find them during...
