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Carnivora

Molecular validation of carnivore scat surveys: Effects of climate, scat age, and observer experience on identification success

Francisco Palomares, Jacinto Román, Javier Calzada, Juan Carlos Rivilla, Irene Quintanilla

published 23 Feb 2026

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Leveraging synthetic data produced from museum specimens to train adaptable species classification models

Jarrett D. Blair, Kamal Khidas, Katie E. Marshall

published 03 Sep 2025

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Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication

Kimberly A. Schoenberger, Xiaoming Wang, Suzanne Edmands

published 20 Aug 2025

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Predator-prey transmission of a gammaherpesvirus from Asian badgers (Meles leucurus) to endangered Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica)

Martin Gilbert, Malcolm A.M. Hill, Leah Y.N. Cheung, Patti K. Kiser, Ivan V. Seryodkin, Dale G. Miquelle, John M. Goodrich, Nadezhda Sulikhan, Olga Uphyrkina, Mikhail Goncharuk, Linda Kerley, Ryan M. Troyer

published 02 Jul 2025

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Factors affecting spatio-temporal occurrence of sympatric civets in Parsa-Koshi Complex, Nepal

Bishal Subedi, Sandeep Regmi, Amrit Nepali, Niraj Regmi, Amir Basnet, Krishna Tamang, Bishnu Aryal, Sabin KC, Pradip Kandel, Shivish Bhandari, Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai, Hem Bahadur Katuwal, Jerrold L. Belant, Ashok Kumar Ram, Hari Prasad Sharma

published 11 Jun 2025

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Combining N-mixture and occupancy analysis offers a more complete picture of carnivore habitat use in Northeastern Türkiye

J. David Blount, Austin M. Green, Mark Chynoweth, Emrah Çoban, Josip Kusak, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

published 14 May 2025

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Patterns and temporal trends in canine breakage and scarring in Western Hudson Bay polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

Simonne S. Tremblay, David McGeachy, Nicholas J. Lunn, Evan S. Richardson, Andrew E. Derocher

published 25 Mar 2025

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Pan-African review of cultural uses of carnivores

Vivienne L. Williams, Marine Drouilly, Peter G. R. Coals, Gareth M. Whittington-Jones

published 25 Mar 2025

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Assessment of total mercury content in fish muscle tissue from the middle basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador

Fernanda Paz-Suconota, Lenys Fernández, Natalia Carpintero-Salvador, Melany Ruiz-Urigüen, Stefan Alexander Brück, Fidel Ernesto Rodríguez Galarza, Ricardo Burgos-Morán, Patricio J. Espinoza-Montero

published 18 Dec 2024

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The osteology of Triisodon crassicuspis (Cope, 1882): New insights into the enigmatic “archaic” placental mammal group “Triisodontidae”

William J. Toosey, Thomas E. Williamson, Sarah L. Shelley, Stephen L. Brusatte

published 11 Nov 2024

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Availability of alternative prey rather than intraguild interactions determines the local abundance of two understudied and threatened small carnivore species

Alejandro Hernández-Sánchez, Antonio Santos-Moreno

published 08 Nov 2024

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Extralimital terrestrials: A reassessment of range limits in Alaska’s land mammals

Andrew P. Baltensperger, Hayley C. Lanier, Link E. Olson

published 13 May 2024

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Comparative anatomy of the felid brachial plexus reflects differing hunting strategies between Pantherinae (snow leopard, Panthera uncia) and Felinae (domestic cat, Felis catus)

Margaret I. Hall, Tyler Lindvall, Ana Suarez-Venot, Dominik Valdez, Heather F. Smith

published 09 Aug 2023

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