Swinhoe's tree lizard (Diploderma swinhonis: D. swinhonis) is an arboreal agamid that is native to Taiwan. In Taiwan, the lizard is considered to be a generalist that feeds primarily on ants and a diversity of small insect prey by employing an opportunistic sit-and-wait foraging strategy. In Japan, ...

Parasites are ubiquitous and can have large impacts on the fitness of their hosts. The effects of ectoparasites on physiology, behaviour, and immune function suggest that they could be part of the factors which impact thermoregulation. We tested the hypothesis that ectoparasites impact...

In Brazil, the illegal capture of wild animals is a crime that contributes to the extinction of species, besides causing environmental imbalance and suffering to the animals. Here, we undertook a quantitative survey of animals sent to the "Centro de Triagem de Animais Silvestres" (CETAS - Wild...

Ticks are ectoparasites of the class Arachnida that parasitize terrestrial vertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. This paper reports the occurrence of hard ticks on wild animals received and attended by the Veterinary Hospital of "Parque Zoológico Municipal Quinzinho de Barros",...

A substantial number of humans are at risk for infection by vector-borne flaviviruses, resulting in considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. These viruses also infect wildlife at a considerable rate, persistently cycling between ticks/mosquitoes and small mammals and reptiles and non-human...

There has been increasing interest in the study of human-animal relations. This contrasts with the lack of normative resources and materials for research purposes. We present subjective norms for a set of 120 open-source colour images of animals spanning a total of 12 biological categories (e.g.,...

Five eclectus parrots (Eclectus roratus vosmaeri) and 4 Hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis) acquired sarcocystosis at the Jacksonville Zoological Park, Florida, USA, during the first 6 months of 1991. Four of the eclectus parrots and 2 of the Amazon parrots died as a result of the...

Bird nests are specialized structures that act as microrefuge and a source of food for arthropods. Nest arthropod richness and composition may vary according to the nest builder, geographical location and nest size. Because information on nest arthropods is scarce, there are even fewer studies on...