A detailed multi-year observational study of Red-Billed (RB) oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) and yellow-billed (YB) (B. Africanus) occurrence on a range ungulate species was performed in two Kenyan national parks. Surprisingly observation over 2100 individual Kongoni, group sizes 1 to > 50, revealed total absence oxpeckers, either species, Kongoni (Alcephalus buselaphus: subfamily Alceph...

Abstract The Listriodontinae were a common and widespread group of Suidae (pigs) that lived in an area extending from Portugal to China southern Africa. Here, we describe the new species Listriodon dukkar Pasuda (Gujarat, India). It shares features with Li. pentapotamiae, evolved it, is last representative this lineage. flourished for about 10 million years, reached their maximum diversity geog...

Congenital defects in thyroglobulin (Tg) synthesis in animals have proven to be useful models for the study of Tg synthesis and regulation. Defects in Tg synthesis have been well described in Afrikander cattle, Australia Merino sheep, and goats in The Netherlands. This report describes a study of goiter in a nondomesticated bovine species, bongo antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus), an African bovi...

Using an automated simulated annealing (SA) procedure, spectrum decomposition on angular measurements of tooth enamel fragments shows that UV irrad iation of modern human and fossil bovid samples results in distinctively different ESR spectra. In the fossil sample, UV irradiation generates qualitatively identical spectra to natural. The amounts of non-oriented CO2 radicals in the modern and fos...

Kappa-casein is a mammalian milk protein involved in a number of important physiological processes. In the gut, the ingested protein is split into an insoluble peptide (para kappa-casein) and a soluble hydrophilic glycopeptide (caseinomacropeptide). Caseinomacropeptide is responsible for increased efficiency of digestion, prevention of neonate hypersensitivity to ingested proteins, and inhibiti...

Study of new and previously discovered remains indicates the presence at least three giraffidGiraffidae (giraffid) eight bovid species in Baynunah Formation. Among giraffids, most significant find is a partial skeleton attributed to Palaeotragus aff. germainiaff. . A large sivathereSivatheriinae (sivathere) possibly Samotherium boissieri are also present. Bovids include Pachyportax latidens, Mi...

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