The Kudaro Paleolithic site complex in Southern Ossetia includes five species of felids: Panthera onca gombaszoegensis, P. spelaea, P. pardus, Felis silvestris and possibly Lynx lynx. The fossil jaguar P. onca gombaszoegensis was identified from the lowest stratigraphic level of the Middle Pleistocene (Likhvian = Holsteinian Interglacial). Remains of P. pardus and Felis silvestris were recovere...

This work is a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of haematology, and represents an enormous amount of painstaking labour. The material for examination has been obtained from various parts of the globe, and some 2,000 tests have been made with fresh and dried specimens of blood. The inter-relationship of the vertebrates has been investigated by means of the precipitin test, a research ...

Pterygodermaties (Mesopectines) nycticebi (Mönnig, 1920) (Nematoda: Spirurida: Rictulariidae) is redescribed based on immature and mature adults collected from the stomach and small intestine at autopsy of a slow loris, Nycticebus coucang (Boddaert, 1785) (Mammalia: Primates), in a zoological garden in Japan. It is first demonstrated that male possesses a minute telamon and a left lateral pore ...

Peculiar brain lesions have been produced in monkeys (Hurst, 1940, 1942), in cats (Ferraro, 1933), and in dogs (Jedlowski, 1937, 1938; Dechaume and Chambon, 1947) by the repeated subcutaneous injection of cyanides. Some have considered these lesions to show features similar to the spontaneous demyelinating diseases occurring in man and possibly in certain other mammalia, such as the monkey, she...

The Mass, Metabolism and Length Explanation (MMLE) was advanced in 1984 to explain the relationship between metabolic rate and body mass for birds and mammals. This paper reports on a modernized version of MMLE. MMLE deterministically computes the absolute value of Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and body mass for individual animals. MMLE is thus distinct from other examinations of these topics that...

Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA United States National Parasite Collection, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia Kamchatka...

* CSIC, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, c. José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid. [email protected] Abstract The fossil deer (Cervidae, Mammalia) from Cueva Victoria are described and compared to the other Pleistocene deer from Europe. These fossils belong to a large and a mid-sized species. The large species, represented by 153 fossils, including antlers, teeth and limb bones, is di...