The response of African countries immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic declaration was rapid and appropriate, with low infections mortality rates until June 2020. Severe lock-down measures were effective in Africa; however, reduction amount natural experience influences quality life modern society. This study is conducted as an international comparative five on changes perception health reco...

Life history parameters such as diet, reproduction, and sexual dimorphism are crucial to understand ecological and evolutionary forces shaping species traits. Nevertheless, such information is scant in the literature for most Neotropical squamates. Gymnophthalmidae contains over 242 species in 46 genera and includes small-size, mostly terrestrial species, although psamophilic, semi-aquatic, and...

Spondias tuberosa Arr., a fructiferous tree endemic to the northeast Brazilian tropical dry forest called Caatinga, accounts for numerous benefits for its ecosystem as well as for the dwellers of the Caatinga. The tree serves as feed for pollinators and dispersers as well as fodder for domestic ruminants, and is a source of additional income for local smallholders and their families. Despite it...

Lepiotaceous fungi form relatively fragile basidiocarps with white, rarely coloured, spores. Most are saprotrophic forest-floor dwellers that grow in the lower litter layers of the soil, and probably decompose lignin and cellulose. They occur worldwide, with many representatives in tropical and temperate regions, and a few species in arctic-alpine areas and in deserts. Most taxa are agaricoid, ...

Centipedes of temperate regions can be found in various habitats, including forest litter, soil or caves. Slovenia, situated the Northwestern Balkans, has rich centipede fauna, with one earliest scientific descriptions a cave centipede, Lithobius stygius Latzel, 1880, from Postojnska jama. Many lithobiomorph species have been reported Slovenian caves, but data on their occurrence are scattered ...

What is a macaque? Macaca is the geographically most widely distributed genus of non-human primates. When these close relatives of baboons and mangabeys migrated out of Africa about 6–7 million years ago they left the Barbary macaque in northern Africa; all other 22 extant species settled or emerged in south, east and south-east Asia. Macaques deviate from common conceptions of monkeys as swing...

Language contraction is shaped by the unequal distribution of power and resources, both between the language community and the dominant society, and within the contracting language community itself. Gender is connected to other social divisions and inequalities, rendering it central to processes of maintenance and loss. For indigenous groups struggling for recognition and rights, public acknowl...

Sometimes academic books must not be evaluated only according to their conclusions or arguments, but also for the meanings they carry in themselves. That is, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, sometimes the book is the message. I am specifically thinking about studies regarding the lifeworlds and actions of people who suffer from and struggle against the consequences of social inequality, such as ...

Black South Africans comprise 80% of the total population of the country. Traditionally, rural dwellers, were unaccustomed to the stress of urban life, their diet was high in fiber and carbohydrate and low in fat. Over the past three decades, there has been accelerated urbanization and it is projected that 80% of this population will be urbanized by the year 2000. Thus, in the lifetime of one g...