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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"roadkill"”.
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The Sound a Body Makes : and Other Ruminations on Navigating Roadkill
… interrogates my personal relationship with roadkill, as well as society’s relationship with roadkill. The lens of the collection is hyper-focused on roads, the treatment / beliefs surrounding roadkill, and the treatment of more-than-human bodies. Combining image and text, the reader is …
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Effects of Road Characteristics, Land Cover, and Topography on Roadkill Patterns Across a Rural-Urban Gradient in Southwest Virginia
… Virginia. I also examined relationships between roadkill patterns and several land and road variables, hoping to close a current literature gap by focusing specifically on small and meso-mammals weighing less than 15kg. I recorded the location and species of carcasses found along predetermined …
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Pied crow in South Africa: integrating ecological and social dimensions for effective management
… 2 & 3). Chapter 2 focused on the impact of roadkill on Pied Crow abundance and breeding success, while Chapter 3 explored the perception and knowledge of Pied Crows in South Africa, with a specific focus on farmers and non-farmers. Chapter 2 explored the impact of roadkill on Pied Crow …
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Determining habitat preferences of Dasypus novemcinctus and assessing prevalence of Hansen's disease in Tennessee with assistance from community science data
… efforts. My research used community science and roadkill surveys to study habitat preferences across the state of Tennessee and tested roadkill for Hansen’s disease prevalence.
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No One is Looking For You
… features recurring images such as birds, cats, roadkill, long nighttime walks, and light switches which are always being turned off. All of these elements serve to imbue the poems with the sense of ghostliness and invisibility felt by the speaker
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Establishing a protocol to measure tetrodotoxin (TTX) levels in small bodied newts (genus Lissotriton) in western Europe
… Europe. The study was based on eggs and fresh roadkills collected in England, Scotland, Wales and France. The roadkill samples were collected at a site inhabited by both Lissotriton vulgaris and L. helveticus, and species identification was attempted using mtDNA sequencing. An initial set of …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
… instance, the pulpy flesh of fruit, fresh roadkill, or even bad weather—in response to racist and misogynist gaslighting. Drawing on phenomenology, affect theory, and queer studies, I argue that these moments of interspecies comparison enable characters to reclaim the truth content of their …
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Distribution, population status and conservation of the samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis schwarzi) in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
… we aimed to get a better understanding of where roadkills most likely occur and how to mitigate these through using suitable canopy overpasses. As road fatalities threaten primate populations globally, we used the samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis) as a model species to test the …
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IDENTIFYING WILDLIFE CROSSING ZONES FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF HIGHWAY MITIGATION MEASURES ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 2: WEST GLACIER, MT TO MILEPOST 193
Highways have been shown to fragment wildlife habitats and populations. In order to mitigate the effects that highways have on wildlife, it is important to assess where wildlife appear to be moving in close proximity to the highway. I surveyed for wildlife trails that approached either side of a …
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IDENTIFYING WILDLIFE CROSSING ZONES FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF HIGHWAY MITIGATION MEASURES ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 2: WEST GLACIER, MT TO MILEPOST 193
Highways have been shown to fragment wildlife habitats and populations. In order to mitigate the effects that highways have on wildlife, it is important to assess where wildlife appear to be moving in close proximity to the highway. I surveyed for wildlife trails that approached either side of a …