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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"oryx"”.
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Forage Selection and Grouping Patterns of Male and Female Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah) on Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Mason, Texas
… resource selection patterns of scimitarhorned oryx (Oryx dammaty in Texas, information that is vital for informed management decisions. Scimitar-horned oiyx are less dimorphic in body size (males approximately 12% larger than females) than most ruminants (males 20 - 50% larger than females). …
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Developing embryo technologies for the eland antelope (Taurotragus oryx)
Assisted reproductive technologies developed in domestic cattle serve as a starting point in similar studies on nondomestic bovids. The common eland is a useful model species for studies on rare tragelaphine antelopes. In Chapter 3 of the present study, effects of components/attributes of …
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… during the move to postmodernism. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake evolved to reflect the political climate that grew out of the Cold War’s end, while retaining the cautionary messages regarding the state’s ability to control. Oryx and Crake can be seen as completely reversing the concern from …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
… them, are central issues in the novels. In <em>Oryx and Crake</em>, Atwood establishes the apocalypse as a problem of dystopian vision through the book's deeply flawed focalizer. In <em>The Year of the Flood</em> two alternative visions are offered in order to rehabilitate the perceptual …
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Factors influencing the establishment of translocated eland (Taurotragus oryx) and springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in the Nyae Nyae conservancy, Namibia
… to outcomes of translocated eland (Taurotragus oryx) and springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in the Nyae Nyae conservancy. The study utilised a mixed-method design that involved the employment of both qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies in obtaining primary and secondary …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… novels under consideration are Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, a dystopian novel under the science fiction genre, Brian Evenson's Last Days, a subversion of the hardboiled detective novel, and Colson Whitehead's Zone One, a literary take on the zombie apocalypse subgenre of horror fiction. Each …
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Similaridade genotípica de Salmonella enterica isolada de animais silvestres e exóticos em cativeiro em Ohio, EUA
… rhino, llama, blue sheep, onager, wild dog, oryx, eland, tahr, zebra, rabbit, wolf, domestic sheep, goat, reindeer, ram, banteng, sable antílope, hog, goose, bison, small ruminant, Przewalski's horse and pony). After culture, the isolates were subjected to antimicrobial Susceptibility testing …
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Seasonal distributions and interactions of cattle and wild ungulates in Maasailand, Tanzania
… preferring tall grass habitats (kongoni, oryx), while facilitating use of the herb layer by species preferring short grasses (wildebeest, Grant’s gazelle).
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A process model for the development of airborne electronic equipment
… being applied to manage the upgrade of the Oryx helicopter fleet of the South African air force.
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Stable isotope ecology of modern herbivores from Mmabolela, Limpopo
… between the browsing species eland (Taurotragus oryx), bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) and kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros). The δ 15N values for all species (including corrected values for keratin from Hystrix africaeaustralis) range from 7.73‰ to 11.20‰. δ 15N values of baboons fall within the …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… with nature and the effects of technology. In Oryx and Crake, humanist and posthumanist understandings of the world cannot provide individuals with meaning in their radically altered environment. In The Year of the Flood, the second of Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… with nature and the effects of technology. In Oryx and Crake, humanist and posthumanist understandings of the world cannot provide individuals with meaning in their radically altered environment. In The Year of the Flood, the second of Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, …
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Behavioral and genetic correlates of reproductive success in male addax (Addax nasomaculatus, De Blainville 1816)
… and constant resource base as seen in related oryx species. Two mating strategies were evident among male addax in this population: territorial and following or non-territorial. Resources and the behavior and density of females influenced the presence of these different mating strategies with …
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The Middle Stone Age fauna from Olieboomspoort: an archaeozoological perspective
… Sylvicapra grimmia, Syncerus caffer, Tragelaphus oryx, Equus sp., Proteles cristata, Felis silvestris, Papio sp., Lepus sp., snakes and tortoises. Thus, the faunal assemblage is taxonomically relatively diverse with 16 species identified. Bovids are the most represented and there is an abundance …
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Mammalian herbivores reinforce ecological state transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms