Observing snakes in captivity and in the wild has at times left me with the impression that snakes aren’t the greatest thinkers on the planet; one mutt rat snake that I had for years tried on several occasions to swallow itself, beginning with its tail. It was so determined to self-inge...
. The EtOH trap was also hanging and intact with plenty of liquid in the reservoir, but the bait bottle was dry (same as other locations), and there were hardly any cerambycids (same as some, but not all, other locations). Sadly, the white bottle trap was completely missing—I even m...
TAMPA -- An 11-foot bull alligator snatched an 85-pound golden retriever from a lakeside in St. Petersburg, dragging the pet under water while its owner watched in horror.U.S. NewspapersThe Florida Times Union
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We considered this special case –sampling regime 8– where only animal relocations are included in the area estimation, by using the four location per day sampling regime as its starting point and then removing data points where the animal was stationary. We described the autocorrelation in the ...
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Specifically, starting from the CCI land cover map, we estimated the annual changes in different land use types between two consecutive years based on the LUH data using a backward "proportional allocation rule"29. That is, the annual historical changes in urban, cropland and pasture areas in ...
These three characters covary—those with an unbranched first robust anticline neural spine also have a well-developed radial flange and sharp notch along the anterior margin of the humerus (called Type A hereaf- ter; Fig. 1b,d,f), while those with a bifurcated first anticline neural ...
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DNA was amplified using the Accustart II Geltrack Supermix (Quantabio) with the use of touchdown PCR, with a starting annealing temperature of 72°C dropping to 65°C over 15 cycles, followed by 35 cycles with an annealing temperature of 65°C. A 1-min extension at 72°C was used ...