Direct and dendrographic comparison of the profiles of abundant fatty acids in depot fat was unable to separate 10 avian species on a basis of their overall proportions but was able to distinguish broad dietary groups or those in a habitat with distinctive nutritional characteristics such as avian marine carnivores. In all species considered, including North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...

The size and shape of the managed area for a threatened species to have a stable or growing population is a central issue for conservation management, for example for kiwi, Apteryx sp. Combining geometric probability results for retention of juveniles to breed in the protected area with a standard matrix population model allows the creation of an explicit relationship between the minimum area n...

Fruits and vegetables are known to possess health benefits: indeed, they contain a large number of bioactive molecules with a positive impact on human health. Dietary proteins possess specific biological properties which make these components potential ingredients of functional or health-promoting foods. Many of these properties are attributed to physiologically-active peptides encrypted in pro...

Studies on language-trained bonobos have revealed their remarkable abilities in representational and communication tasks. Surprisingly, however, corresponding research into their natural communication has largely been neglected. We address this issue with a first playback study on the natural vocal behaviour of bonobos. Bonobos produce five acoustically distinct call types when finding food, wh...

Using quasiconformal surgery, we prove that any primitive, postcritically-finite hyperbolic polynomial can be tuned with an arbitrary generalized non-escaping critical points, generalizing a result of Douady-Hubbard for quadratic polynomials to the case higher degree polynomials. This solves affirmatively conjecture by Inou and Kiwi on surjectivity renormalization operator in one complex variab...

topical application with 100, 200 and 300 ng/ml phytohormone salicyclic acid on commercial traits was analysed in bivoltine csr2, csr4 and csr2xcsr4 crossbreed races of the silkworm, bombyx mori l. the results showed that there was significant increase in larval weight female cocoon weight, male cocoon shell weight, and hatching percentage with 100 and 200 ng/ml, silkgland weight, female cocoon...

Monitoring breeding outcomes of cryptic nocturnal species such as the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) is an important aim for conservation management in New Zealand. While fitting male with radio transmitters enables incubation burrows to be found and monitored, it invasive expensive. Remote monitoring methods (without handling birds) are preferable.

abstract the assessment of ripeness is a major part of quality evaluation and depends on several factors such as soluble solid content (ssc), acidity and firmness. most of the methods that measure these qualities are destructive. so it is essential to develop an efficient and nondestructive method for measuring internal attributes of fruit. the objective of this study was to investigate visible...

Purpose Based on the survey data of 650 kiwi growers from Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces, this paper used multiple endogenous transformation regression models to explore effect joint adoption green production technology farmer’s welfare. The purpose study is analyze influence yield, household income socioeconomic characteristics Kiwi fruit growers. Design/methodology/approach In context study, m...