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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.09.007 | DOI Listing |
Vet Res Commun
September 2025
Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Tenrecs (Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae) are insectivorous mammals endemic to Madagascar, currently facing population declines due to habitat loss and subsistence hunting. Emerging infectious diseases, including parasitic infections, may pose additional threats. A comparable situation has been observed in Algerian hedgehogs (Atelerix algirus) in Mallorca, where the invasive nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis has been associated with severe neuropathology.
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August 2025
Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
Studying prey hunting behavior in mice provides an ideal opportunity to identify mechanisms that control visual stimulus detection and orienting in the mammalian brain. Emerging work has shown that visual orienting varies during development in a way that reflects the maturity of the underlying visual system. However, it was unknown whether mice varied in visual orienting and prey hunting during adolescence when many underlying motivational and attentional systems are in flux.
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July 2025
Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Background: West Africa remains the stronghold for Critically Endangered hooded vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) and other species of vulture, but these populations are declining. Since anthropogenic threats pose the greatest risks to vultures, it is crucial to understand people's perceptions of these birds, and their ethno-cultural significance, in areas surrounding national parks to inform conservation policy through an understanding of cultural values and practices.
Methods: We used semi-structured interviews to collect data from 450 respondents in nine localities near three protected areas in northeastern Benin: Sota Forest, Trois Rivières Forest, and Alibori Supérieur Forest.
Elife
June 2025
School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Understanding neural activity organization is vital for deciphering brain function. By recording whole-brain calcium activity in larval zebrafish during hunting and spontaneous behaviors, we find that the shape of the neural activity space, described by the neural covariance spectrum, is scale-invariant: a smaller, cell assembly resembles the entire brain. This phenomenon can be explained by Euclidean Random Matrix theory, where neurons are reorganized from anatomical to functional positions based on their correlations.
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May 2025
Agrobiotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security National Laboratory, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Animal Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2100 Godollo, Hungary.
For centuries, the most prevalent antler abnormalities observed worldwide have been attributed to trauma. However, detailed pathological investigation of these cases has not yet been carried out. In free-living fallow deer (), we identified a chronic osteomyelitis-like condition-Pedunculitis Chronica Deformans (PCD)-using pathological and radiological diagnostics.
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