Nesting box imager: Contact-free, real-time measurement of activity, surface body temperature, and respiratory rate applied to hibernating mouse models.

Noncontact methods to measure animal activity and physiology are necessary to monitor undisturbed states such as hibernation.Although some noncontact measurement systems are commercially available, they are often incompatible with realistic habitats, which feature freely moving animals in small, cluttered environments.A growing market of single-boa

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Cultural Significance of Beetles in Sub-Saharan Africa

An overview is given of how beetles are utilised, perceived, and experienced in daily life across sub-Saharan Africa.More than 300 people from 27 countries were interviewed and the results were compared with literature findings.Both the adults and larvae of many beetle species are eaten, mainly from the sex shop arles families Curculionidae, Bupres

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