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Movement and Life History Aspects of the Pygmy Rattlesnake in Southwest Missouri
Individual pygmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius) (N=7) were monitored with radiotelemetry in Christian and Taney Counties of southwest Missouri. Snakes were tracked for periods of 11-73 days and a total of 264 tracking days. Males exhibited significantly greater (P ﹥ 0.05) movement than females …
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A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Eocene Baltic amber
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Seed and vegetative propagation methods for the rare Florida native species Chionanthus pygmaeus (pygmy fringetree)
Chionanthus pygmaeus Small (pygmy fringetree) (Oleaceae) is an endemic and rare Florida species, which has an attractive, small habit giving it great potential for use in managed landscapes. Members of the genus Chionanthus are difficult to propagate via cuttings and possess complex seed dormancies …
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Akrotiri Aetokremnos and the Cypriot Pygmy Hippopotamus: An Interdisciplinary Look at a Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction
… hunting and climatic change. The Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus represents a case study of one such extinction event. The last appearance of this species is at the archaeological site Akrotiri Aetokremnos (~12,000 cal. B.P.), the oldest well-dated site on Cyprus. This dissertation represents …
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Methods for estimation of cyclic recruitment variation in pygmy northern pikeminnow (ptychochelius oregonensis) of south central British Columbia.
… of 2-year cyclic recruitment variation in the pygmy pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus oregonensis). This thesis reviews possible causes of the cycle, and evaluates an inexpensive and non-destructive visual survey method to estimate juvenile population numbers over short summer periods while pikeminnow …
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Exploring the Cephalopod Brain: Towards Mapping the First Whole Brain Connectome and Whole Animal Projectome of a Pygmy Squid
… hatchling, which belongs to the family of pygmy squids, the smallest known cephalopods, of dimensions suitable for whole-brain volume EM. Using eFIBSEM, small volumes of the eye and optic lobe were acquired to test the feasibility of mapping brain wiring, dependent on sample preparation …
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First observation of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in the nucleus 68Ni using an isoscalar probe above the neutron emission threshold
… di Tesi riguarda lo studio della Risonanza Pygmy di Dipolo (PDR) nel nucleo 68Ni. Attualmente lo studio della PDR è di notevole interesse, in quanto permette di ottenere informazioni riguardanti, non solo la struttura nucleare dei nuclei, ma anche le dimensioni della pelle di neutroni in …
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Phylogeographic and morphometric studies on the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus: insights into its evolutionary history and postglacial colonisation in Europe
… phylogeography and morphology of the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus, searching for significantly differentiated lineages, colonisation routes and demographic parameters that would explain the effects of the Quaternary glaciations on the current distribution of the species. I also explore …
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Captive breeding programmes for nocturnal prosimians
… lemur, grey mouse lemur, grey slender loris and pygmy slow loris) and determine their demographic self-sustainability. To achieve this aim studbook data was analysed. The difference between birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, age structure and sex composition were investigated. The …
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EFEITOS DA VOCALIZAÇÃO DE GLAUCIDIUM BRASILIANUM (STRIGIFORMES) SOBRE COMUNIDADES DE AVES NA CAATINGA DURANTE O PERÍODO REPRODUTIVO E NÃO-REPRODUTIVO
… being of mobbing is the predator Ferruginous Pygmy-owl however there are still many gaps on basic aspects of this behavioral set. Thus, this work aims to describe the species composition of birds in Caatinga area that performs the mobbing behavior in response to vocalization of Ferruginous …
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Comparison of Cytochrome b variation and morphological features of isolated Banded Pygmy Sunfish (Elassoma zonatum) populations in the lower Green River and Coastal Plain systems in Western Kentucky
<p>The banded pygmy sunfish Elassoma zonatum is a wide-ranging species found throughout the Southeastern Coastal Plain of North America. In Kentucky, the populations are found above and below the inner boundary of the Coastal Plain. Due to their geographical separation comparisons in body size and …
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Behaviour of normal, avascular and revascularizing cancellous bone: in vivo studies of the mechanical properties and tissue reactions of cancellous bone in the femoral head of an African pygmy goat
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_065300939.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Measuring behaviour, energy expenditure and parasite transmission in the face of climate change: comparisons with a domestic and wild caprid
… tools using a domestic counterpart, African pygmy goats (Capra aegagrus hircus), specifically refining methods used to estimate behaviour and energy expenditure, and 2) measuring the behaviour, physiology and parasites of a mountain ungulate, Alpine ibex, in the face of climate change. …
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Sociable weaver nests as a resource to local animal communities
… tree skinks (Trachylepis spilogaster), African pygmy falcons (Polihierax semitorquatus) and snakes. These species have all been shown to associate with weaver colonies and may impact weavers and each other in different ways. I show that Sociable weaver colonies create localised biodiversity …
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Small mammal communities on a reclaimed mountaintop mine/valley fill landscape in southern West Virginia
… short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda), and pygmy shrews (Sorex hoyi) were more common in forest treatments; Peromyscus, house mice (Mus musculus), southern bog lemmings ( Synaptomys cooperi), and masked shrews (S. cinereus) were more common in reclaimed treatments. These species were …
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Drinking up the desert
… until 1998, when the discovery of endangered pygmy owls in Tucson sparked the creation of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. The plan aims to preserve biodiversity in Tucson and surrounding Pima County by limiting development in biologically sensitive areas of the desert. In addition, Pima …
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Navigating the night: spatial cognition, locomotor and ranging behaviour in Nycticebus species
… I found that home range sizes in translocated pygmy slow loris males were larger than those reported both in wild and other translocated pygmy slow lorises, causing subsequent males to leave the release site. As a natural proxy for human-mediated translocations I analysed long-term data on …
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Systematics of Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera): Taxonomic revision of extinct taxa with comments on extant taxa
… to medium-size (9 cm) crickets. Tridactylidae, pygmy mole crickets, are globally distributed, whereas mud crickets in Ripipterygidae and sandgropers in Cylindrachetidae have Neotropical and Austral distributions, respectively. The taxonomy of this superfamily was reviewed between the 1960s and …
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Genomic signatures of recent selection at HIV host susceptibility genes in a Central African human population
… the Biaka were compared to those of an Eastern pygmy population and to other African groups residing outside the range of P. t. troglodytes. Genomic regions showing signatures of selection were compared to the genomic locations of AIDS restriction genes (ARGs), genes with known variants that …
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