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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"mongoose"”.
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Causes and consequences of inbreeding in the banded mongoose
… avoidance in empirical studies. The banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a cooperative breeder which is unusual in that it frequently engages in incest. As part of the Banded Mongoose Research Project I have quantified the level of inbreeding and investigated both its causes and consequences. …
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Odour signals contain multi-modal information in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo).
… reproductive decision-making in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). I use a wild but habituated population to conduct experimental odour presentations showing these mammals are capable of discriminating scents based on sex, familiarity, relatedness and female reproductive state. The ability …
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Stomach Content Analysis of the Invasive Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) from Puerto Rico
… control in the late 1800’s, the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) has been identified as a reservoir for several zoonotic diseases and has been suggested as a factor affecting native Puerto Rican fauna. Mongoose are considered generalist predators that readily switch prey …
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Understanding the Influence of Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Social Structuring on Disease Transmission Using Molecular Tools
… how dispersal patterns of individual banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) could potentially influence disease transmission. Banded mongooses are small fossorial mammals that live in social groups ranging from 5 to 75 individuals and defend their territories against rival troops. The focal …
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Assessment of the Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) in Sustaining Cattle Fever Tick populations in Puerto Rico
… the pervasiveness of the invasive Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) in Puerto Rico and its potential to serve as an alternate Cattle Fever Tick host. For this study, radio-telemetry and ectoparasite sampling were conducted on mongooses at five farm sites in Puerto Rico to estimate …
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The Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Behavior in Northern Botswana: Inferences about Infectious Disease Transmission
… disease remains limited. In the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, has emerged in Northern Botswana that is transmitted through olfactory communication behaviors. Using this host-pathogen system, this thesis explores the influence of …
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Developing Transcriptional Markers for Detecting Infection with the Novel Tuberculosis Pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, in Free-Ranging Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
… infects the highly social, group-living banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). M. mungi poses a large threat to human and animal health as banded mongoose hosts thrive in urbanized areas and live in close proximity to humans, but despite this threat, accurately diagnosing M. mungi infection status …
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Tracking Pathogen Transmission at the Human-Wildlife Interface: Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) and Escherichia coli as a Model System in Chobe, Botswana
… humans. As part of a long-term study of banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) that live in close association with humans and human fecal waste I used Escherichia coli and banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) for evaluating exchange of fecal waste-borne microorganisms at the human-wildlife interface. …
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The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications
Free-ranging banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) in northeastern Botswana are infected by a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, M. mungi, which putatively infects mongooses through lesions in the skin (often the planum nasale) from an environmental reservoir. To understand the …
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Morphological, Genetic, and Ecological Insights into the Puerto Rican Tody: Investigating Variation Between and Within Dry Forest and Rainforest Populations
… The last study evaluates how the small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata), an invasive predator, has shaped nest predation and breeding behavior among the rainforest todies over a 53-year period. While historical data showed high rates of mongoose nest predation, recent observations from our …
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Bidirectional interactions between behavior and disease in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) infected with Mycobacterium mungi
… and respond to infectious disease in a banded mongoose population experiencing epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium mungi in the M. tuberculosis complex (Alexander et al. 2010). Banded mongooses are highly social carnivores that live in troops of 5 to 65 …
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The effect of clothing and carrion biomass load on decomposition and scavenging in a forensically significant thicketed habitat in Cape Town, South Africa
… with scavenging activity by the Cape grey mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta), which displaced clothing to feed on the abdomen, more so during winter. Scavenging was hindered by the denim trousers, altering feeding patterns and causing preferential scavenging on unclothed carcasses. Single …
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Salivary Biomarkers of Acute Stress and Insulin Sensitivity in Nonhuman Primates
… red ruffed lemurs (Varecia rubra) and mongoose lemurs (Eulemur mongoz). Hormones were analyzed with enzyme kinetic or immunoassays. Our study validated tools for analyzing alpha-amylase, cortisol, and insulin in saliva for those species. No significant relationship was found between sAA …
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How land use influences wildlife occupancy and species richness in the City of Cape Town
… (Hystrix africaeaustralis; n = 222), Water mongoose (Atilax paludinosus; n = 27) and Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis; n = 85) were the most frequently detected species across all three land–use types, with the Cape porcupine the most frequently detected across all transects. Species …
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Evaluating Campylobacter spp at the human-wildlife interface
… Campylobacter infection, and utilizes banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) (n=201) as a study species to illuminate potential Campylobacter spp. transmission at the human-wildlife interface in northern Botswana. Results of the latter study suggest that human-landscapes are critical to C. jejuni …
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Genetically based social communication in an inbred group-living wild mammal
… communication in a social mammal, the banded mongoose. Banded mongooses are prolific scent markers that use secretions from different organs to communicate both within and between groups, as well as intra- and intersexually. Their exceptional breeding system, cooperative behavior and …
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A Descriptive analysis of the various sources of portfolio risk on the Namibian Stock Market
… of rodents, three species of shrews and one mongoose. Total numbers of small mammals were high in brush ridge and herbaceous habitats, and low in alpine and bamboo habitats. The midaltitude zone housed a high number of small mammals. Of the species captured, Praomys degraaffi is vulnerable …
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Molecular epidemiology of human rabies diagnosed in South Africa between 1983 and 2007
… bat-eared foxes and black-backed jackals and a mongoose biotype circulating in herpestids. The presence of LBV, MOKV and DUVV has been demonstrated in South African animal species, but apart from two documented cases of Duvenhage infection in humans, no other lyssaviruses other than genotype 1 …
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The establishment of baseline data on the rates and processes of soft-tissue decomposition in two terrestrial habitats of the Western Cape, South Africa
… finding was extensive scavenging by Cape grey mongoose (Galeralla pulverulenta), predominantly in the covered habitat, heretofore unreported. These observations, amongst others, confirm the biogeographic uniqueness of decomposition in the Western Cape. This emphasises the importance of …
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The effect of clothing on decomposition and scavenging in two forensically significant habitats in Cape Town, South Africa
… affected by the scavenging of the Cape grey mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta), which accelerated the decomposition rate. Additionally, single carcasses within the same habitat decomposed quicker than the multi-carcass deployments. Natural precocious mummification is a unique phenomenon …
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