THE PRIMATE COMMUNITY OF CACHOEIRA (BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA): A MODEL TO DECIPHER ECOLOGICAL PARTITIONING AMONG EXTINCT SPECIES.

The primate community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species.

Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America.This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles paniscus, Cebus apella, Chiropotes satanas, Pithecia Pithecia, Saguinus midas, and Saimiri sciureus.S

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Ten years of coverage of trophy hunting in UK newspapers

Hunting is an increasingly contentious topic.Trophy hunting, whereby people hunt individual animals with desirable characteristics in order to keep body parts (e.g.horns, heads, hides, antlers) as mementos, is especially contested.Political pressure, often in the form of trophy import bans, is being applied in multiple nations, and campaigns to ban

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Theory-based immunisation health education intervention in improving child immunisation uptake among antenatal mothers attending federal medical centre in Nigeria: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BackgroundChildhood immunisation coverage is very low in Nigeria (31%) with Zamfara State being amongst the states with the poorest coverage (MethodologyThe study will be a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial, where baseline data will be collected from 392 estimated antenatal mothers, after that they will be evenly randomised us

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