Hunting and sharing of meat is seen across all chimpanzee sites, with variation in prey preferences, hunting techniques, frequencies, and success rates. Here, we compared hunting and meat-eating behaviour in two adjacent chimpanzee communities (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Budongo Forest, Uganda: the Waibira and Sonso communities. We observed consistent between-group differences in prey-s...

A risk assessment of vegetation zone responses to climate change was conducted using the classical Holdridge life zone model on the Loess Plateau of Northwest China. The results show that there are currently ten vegetation zones occurring on the Loess Plateau (1950–2000), including alvar desert, alpine wet tundra, alpine rain tundra, boreal moist forest, boreal wet forest, cool temperate desert...

The trophy hunting industry in Tanzania plays a significant role wildlife conservation as well economic and community development. Trophy has been conducted Rungwa Game Reserve (RGR) for several decades; however, the opinions from local communities living adjacent to reserve are not documented. This study aimed assess awareness attitudes of Reserves toward hunting. Furthermore, assessed factors...

Animal-mediated seed dispersal is important for sustaining biological diversity in forest ecosystems, particularly in the tropics. Forest fragmentation, hunting, and selective logging modify forests in myriad ways and their effects on animal-mediated seed dispersal have been examined in many case studies. However, the overall effects of different types of human disturbance on animal-mediated se...

The conservation and management of wolves Canis lupus in the periphery of their distribution is challenging. Edges of wolf distribution are characterized by very few and intermittent occurrences of individuals, which are modulated by multiple factors affecting the overall population such as human-caused mortality, management targets and food availability. The knowledge of population dynamics in...

HEMICAL COMPOUNDS derived from living organisms are similar to non-biological substances in that their composition and structure can be characterized, and many can be directly synthesized by standard chemical methods. However, biological compounds are fundamentally different in that each has an underlying evolutionary history. We describe several compounds from an unusual source, the venoms of ...

Hunting and trapping regulations are established so that these practices have little or no impact on those wildlife populations that do not cause damage. However, when wildlife populations cause significant damage, one reported benefit of allowing them to be trapped for furs or hunted is that these practices reduce wildlife damage below levels that would otherwise occur. Yet this reported benef...

Hunting is a unique form of activity in rural areas with high proportion forest areas, which involves nature conservation and meets social needs for recreation the preservation traditions while being an important part economic activity. The presented study results, based on literature review questionnaire surveys conducted among hunters associated hunting clubs north-eastern Poland, provide bas...

Due to the aging U.S. highway system and the frequent presence of work zones, highway work zone safety is garnering increasing attention. Police enforcement is sometimes used by U.S. transportation agencies for safety improvement in work zones. The important question that must be answered by those responsible for programming police enforcement in work zones is: where, when and how to enforce? T...