Canids are among the mammal species most frequently used in traditional folk medicine
around the world. In this context, this paper assesses the global use of canids in traditional …

Carnivores are among the mammal species most frequently used in traditional folk medicine
around the world. Therefore, this chapter assesses the global use of carnivores in traditional …

The body masses of sixteen species of amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora,
Amphicyonidae) from the New and Old World were estimated on the basis of 86 osteological …

Humans inhabiting South America during early portions of the Holocene variably interacted
with native foxes (Family Canidae) in different parts of the continent at a time when there is …

Abstract Lycalopex sechurae (Thomas, 1900) is a small canid commonly called the Sechura
fox or Sechuran desert fox. It is distributed in coastal zones from southwestern Ecuador to …

Nineteen species of wild canids interact with humans in the Americas in different ways. The
zooarchaeological record of burials, shifts in diet, abundance at sites, and ethnological …

Entre las relaciones animal–planta el tema de la dispersión de semillas ha sido uno de los
más estudiados, sin embargo el problema de la cuantificación de la acción del dispersor ha …

Almost 50% of primates are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the criteria of the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, one of the reasons being their consumption by …

The Neotropics is rich in biodiversity and arguably contains some of the least understood
and most understudied predators of the world. Jaguars and other carnivores represent the …

La sociabilidad en los carnívoros parece haber evolucionado como una estrategia para
depredar sobre otros mamíferos de gran tamaño y mejorar las ventajas de competencia …