The study was conducted in the area of the Sarnena Sredna Gora Mountain and the Thracian Plain in period 1996-2014. On a total of 262 golden jackals (Canis aureus L., 1758) (119 males and 143 females) thirteen somatometric parameters were measured. The comparison of the linear body parameters and the weights between males and females showed apparent sexual dimorphism in the jackals with a high ...

In this paper we present JaMP, an adaptation of the OpenMP standard. JaMP is fitted to Jackal, a software-based DSM implementation for Java. While the set of supported directives is directly adopted from the OpenMP standard, we also satisfy all requirements that are enforced by the Java Language Specification and the Java Memory Model. JaMP implements a (large) subset of the OpenMP specificatio...

Decline in wild populations as a result of anthropogenic impact is widely considered to have evolutionary consequences for the species concerned. Here we examine changes in developmental stability in the painted hunting dog (Lycaon pictus), which once occupied most of sub-Saharan Africa but has undergone a dramatic population decline in the last century. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) was used as a...

Two immunoperoxidase techniques, viz. avidin-biotin complex (ABC) and peroxidase-anti-peroxidase (PAP) procedures, were applied to paraffin-wax-embedded brain-tissue sections, from brains which had been fixed in 10% formalin, to demonstrate the presence of rabies-virus antigen by light microscopy. These techniques positively identified both "viverrid" and "canid" rabies-virus antigen in tissues...

in 1969 and 1976, 830 rodents and carnivores col1ected from north east iran were examined for trichinella spiralis. fifty per cent of golden jackal and 30 percent of red foxes were found infected. the possibility of infection among the rodent was discussed could be considered as new transmission. the results of examination of 1534 total blood samples collected from children up to 15 years old i...

1. For terrestrial carnivores, scat analysis is the technique most often used to determine diets. Various methods of interpreting scat-analysis data exist; however, little is known about how the choice of method affects the results. 2. We reviewed 50 scat-analysis papers to assess the range of methods currently used. Furthermore, we used a large data set from cape fox Vulpes chama and black-bac...