Larger carnivores often trigger human-wildlife conflicts that arise from perceived threats to humans and domestic animals’ safety, which generate the need for management removal strategies. These issues become especially challenging when wildlife coexist close one another, example, in urban landscapes. African Crowned Eagles ( Stephanoaetus coronatus ) are powerful forest raptors breed within m...

The authors describe a case of entomophthoromycosis in a previously healthy patient, who presented with an abscess in the right buttock. After surgical drainage it evolved into a retroperitoneal tumor. The patient improved clinically after resection of the mass and ketoconazole treatment. The histopathological analysis showed the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon, suggesting Basidiobolus ranarum inf...

pattern of cuckoos, based on the behaviour of a captive Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus, which suddenly spread its wings and tail in a threatening attitude to my finger, thus displaying the hawk-like pattern of underwing and tail. This was very similar in appearance to a photograph of Accipiter nisus in a treatening posture. In that note I mention that the hawk-pattern of birds of prey may h...

The aquatic gastropod mollusc, Pyrgophorus coronatus, may perform an important role in the transmission of an emergent ocular pathology among fishes in Lake Apoyo, Nicaragua. This disease emerged after an introduction of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and the subsequent loss of Chara sp. beds in the lake. We compared the mollusc population densities in three habitats (sandy/muddy substrates, r...

awareness of the plight of this unique habitat. The Swiss photographer, Thomas Marent, has spent his adult life seeking out the spectacular beauty of the most striking plants and creatures. Tackling everything from poor light to predatory animals, biting insects, invisible diseases and intense humidity, Marent has ventured through rainforests from Costa Rica and Peru to Borneo, Sulawesi and Aus...