Although rarely considered predators, wildlife hunters can function as important ecological and evolutionary agents. In part, their influence relates to targeting of large reproductive adults within prey populations. Despite known impacts of size-selective harvests, however, we know little about what enables hunters to kill these older, rarer, and presumably more wary individuals. In other mamm...

Analyzing the dynamics of collection and display in the colonial context, this essay considers the South Asian artifacts collected by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1894-1904. Temple exhibited the teak carvings, body adornments, and hunting tools that he amassed throughout his career in his home, The Nash, which became the foundation of his...

T he stated purpose of the Trophy trial was “to examine whether early pharmacologic treatment of patients with “high normal” blood pressure would prevent or delay the development of clinical hypertension.” To this end 809 study subjects from 71 different study centers were randomized to receive either 16 mgms. of candesartan or a placebo for two years. After that, all patients were observed on ...

Namibia hosts the worldwide largest free-ranging cheetah population (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996) with 95% of this population roaming outside of protected areas on commercial farmland (Morsbach 1987, Marker-Kraus & Schumann 1998). Commercial livestock farming and trophy hunting have a large economic importance in Namibia and generate substantial income (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996, Barnes et al. 2001...