Carnivores

Carnivores

of CFTR-Dependent Fluid Secretion Michel Bagnat,* Adam Navis, Sara Herbstreith, Koroboshka Brand-Arzamendi, Silvia Curado, Sherif Gabriel, Keith Mostov, Jan Huisken, and Didier Y.R. Stainier* (Current Biology 20, 1840–1845; October 26, 2010) In the text and in Figure 3A of this article, we refer to chromosome 12/LG12. This is incorrect; chromosome 12 in the text and LG12 in Figure 3A should ref...

Social carnivores outperform asocial carnivores on an innovative problem

Carnivores in Northern Latitudes

The first mammals were probably nocturnal (McNab 1978; Kemp 1982) and many extant orders of small mammals have retained this trait. This behaviour is presumably due to the measure of protection from predation that darkness provides (Crawford 1934; Falls 1968; Daan and Aschoff 1982). Large, herbivorous mammals are less restricted to the nocturnal phase (e.g. Bunnell and Harestad 1990) and have b...

Interspecific Killing among Mammalian Carnivores.

Interspecific killing among mammalian carnivores is common in nature and accounts for up to 68% of known mortalities in some species. Interactions may be symmetrical (both species kill each other) or asymmetrical (one species kills the other), and in some interactions adults of one species kill young but not adults of the other. There is a positive significant relationship between the body mass...

Normal Glucose Metabolism in Carnivores Overlaps with Diabetes Pathology in Non-Carnivores

Carnivores, such as the dolphin and the domestic cat, have numerous adaptations that befit consumption of diets with high protein and fat content, with little carbohydrate content. Consequently, nutrient metabolism in carnivorous species differs substantially from that of non-carnivores. Important metabolic pathways known to differ between carnivores and non-carnivores are implicated in the dev...