Free ranging
Hibernation energetics of free ranging little brown bats
... All three of the energetic models we evaluated were significantly correlated with the actual energy expenditure of free-living bats based on measurements of the decline in body mass between captures. However, all ...
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First autonomous recording of in situ dissolved oxygen from free-ranging fish
... from free-ranging fish (sea trout, Salmo trutta) but these were acoustic transmitters that required a “chase boat” to follow the animal and record the transmitted ...temperatures ranging from 10 to ...
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Thermal limitation of performance and biogeography in a free ranging ectotherm: insights from accelerometry
... Theoretical and laboratory studies generally show that ectotherm performance increases with temperature to an optimum, and subsequently declines. Several physiological mechanisms probably shape thermal performance ...
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Free ranging dogs prefer petting over food in repeated interactions with unfamiliar humans
... pet, free-ranging dogs comprise almost 80% of the world ’ s dog population (Boitani and Ciucci, 1995; Hughes and Macdonald, 2013), and are an integral part of the human environment in most developing ...
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Oxidative stress as an indicator of the costs of reproduction among free ranging rhesus macaques
... We studied the free-ranging, provisioned rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. All experimental procedures were approved by IACUC of the University of Puerto Rico ( ...
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First case of chronic wasting disease in Europe in a Norwegian free-ranging reindeer
... Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal contagious prion disease in cervids that is enzootic in some areas in North America. The disease has been found in deer, elk and moose in the USA and Canada, and in South Korea ...
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Dose response relationships for the onset of avoidance of sonar by free ranging killer whales
... (U.S. Navy, 2008, 2012). However, accurate assessment of the potential environmental impact of sonar activities is hindered by a lack of targeted dose-response studies to establish thresh- olds at which ...
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The Affiliative Social Relations Of Free-Ranging Rhesus Macaques In The Context Of Instability
... Across primates, socially integrated individuals exhibit improved genetic fitness compared to their peripheral conspecifics. However, the mechanisms through which this disparity operates is unclear. One hypothesis is ...
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The Prevalence of Intestinal Helminths in Free-Ranging Canids of Mazandaran, Northern Iran
... in free-ranging canids in Mazandaran Province, ...of free-ranging canids such as stray dogs, to pre- vent transmission of these infectious ...
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The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... of free- ranging killer whales, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus ...of free-ranging animals have relied on respiration rates, assuming a constant E O 2 ...
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Evaluation of noninvasive molecular monitoring for fecal pathogens among free-ranging carnivores
... The opportunistic vaccination practices currently being used appeared sufficient to induce a high rate of seroconversion and result in reasonably long-lived titers against CDV in both red wolves and nonwolf canids. ...
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Piroplasmosis in wildlife: Babesia and Theileria affecting free ranging ungulates and carnivores in the Italian Alps
... of free-ranging ungulates in the epidemiology of piroplasmids of veterinary impor- tance is well established ...in free- ranging ungulates and carnivores in an extensive area where wildlife ...
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Movement patterns of a commercially important, free-ranging marine invertebrate in the vicinity of a bait source
... of free-ranging ...for free-ranging lobsters are required to describe and understand the full range of ...future free-range stud- ies will be the small number of approaches and the ...
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Factors Affecting Pregnancy in Free-ranging Elk, Cervus elaphus nelsoni , in Michigan
... Mass was the best predictor of pregnancy in Michi - gan, similar to results from other free-ranging popula - tions (Piasecke 2006), likely because mass indexes both total body reserves and age effects. ...
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Variability in brain and arterial blood temperatures in free ranging ostriches in their natural habitat
... It is widely held that birds employ selective brain cooling, analogous to that in mammals. Most studies have shown that brain temperature in birds consistently is lower than core body temperature over a wide range of ...
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The reproductive pattern and potential of free ranging female wild boars (Sus scrofa) in Sweden
... The reproductive potential indicated by ovulation rates and litter size of the studied wild boars was high (6.4 and 5.4, respectively), compared to litter sizes reported from other countries, e.g. Portugal 4.2 [15], ...
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in free-ranging wild boars hunted for human consumption in Estonia
... A recent estimate of T. gondii seroprevalence in free- ranging wild boars in the southern neighbouring country, Latvia, was 35.1% [13], which is significantly higher than that found in this study (P < ...
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Heart rate and energetics of free ranging king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus)
... where primary and secondary productions are high (Huntley et al., 1991). Information on their energy expenditure and thus food consumption can be used in models of energy flux within the ecosystem (Croxall et al., 1999) ...
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Traumatic myiasis in free ranging eland, reported from Kenya
... in free ranging wildlife, besides possible chal- lenges of tracking individuals having myiasis in the ...cases ranging from minor to life threatening ...
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The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... on free-ranging cetaceans in which it was generally assumed that swimming effort was reflected in respiration rate (Sumich, 1983; Rodríguez de la Gala-Hernández et ...
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