Ecosystem Services Provided by Grass-legume Pastures by Jose C. B. Dubeux, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Mark Mauldin, Liza Garcia

“…Ecosystem services (ES) provided by grasslands include not only products such as beef and milk (provisioning services), but also biological N2-fixation (BNF) and nutrient cycling (supporting ES), carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation, water catchment and purification, shade, windbreaks, habitat for pollinators and wildlife (regulating ES), and finally cultural (e.g., hunting, bird watching) and aesthetical ES. Grassland managers are providing these benefits to the entire society and they should receive compensation. …”
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Freshwater Turtles of Belize by Venetia Briggs, Lauren Watine, Dustin Smith, Robin Bijlani, Rebecca Harvey, William Giuliano, Frank Mazzotti

“…Among these is the critically endangered hicatee, which has been eliminated in most of its range as a result of hunting and habitat loss. Freshwater turtles live in rivers, creeks, and lagoons, and build their nests on the banks. …”
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Grey Wolf Optimizer Based on Powell Local Optimization Method for Clustering Analysis by Sen Zhang, Yongquan Zhou

“…One heuristic evolutionary algorithm recently proposed is the grey wolf optimizer (GWO), inspired by the leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves in nature. This paper presents an extended GWO algorithm based on Powell local optimization method, and we call it PGWO. …”
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Ethnographie matérielle, sonore et spatiale de la mort en pays maale (Éthiopie méridionale) by Hugo Ferran

“…Examining the basis of the group’s memory reveals that the so-called traditional social organization is based on both an “inegalitarian” system, which tends to situate human beings by their lineage rank, and an “egalitarian” system, which seeks to raise a person’s status by emphasizing success (wealth, fertility, feats of war or hunting, etc.).…”
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« Retracing our steps » : failles géologiques et défaillances familiales dans Goat Mountain de David Vann by Pauline BOISGERAULT

“…This paper wishes to analyze the ways in which David Vann’s Goat Mountain allows for an exploration of the multi-layered faults and fault lines that a group of men grapples with after they come back to their camp for their annual hunting rituals. The novel tracks the events and thoughts of a preteen who commits murder and whose adult narrative voice tries to make sense of what came apart at the seams in the Californian landscape and within his own family’s faulty legacy. …”
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Freshwater Turtles of Belize by Venetia Briggs, Lauren Watine, Dustin Smith, Robin Bijlani, Rebecca Harvey, William Giuliano, Frank Mazzotti

“…Among these is the critically endangered hicatee, which has been eliminated in most of its range as a result of hunting and habitat loss. Freshwater turtles live in rivers, creeks, and lagoons, and build their nests on the banks. …”
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First record of a golden jackal (Canis aureus) in the Savinja Valley (Northern Slovenia) by Miha Krofel, Hubert Potočnik

“…Further studies are necessary to determine the status and distribution of this protected species in Slovenia, as well as public awareness actions, especially among hunters, in order to avoid additional accidents at hunting. …”
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Temporal Activity Patterns of the Spider Wasp Pepsis montezuma Smith (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in a Disturbed Lower Montane Rainforest (Manizales, Colombia) by Carlos Restrepo-Giraldo, Juanita Rodriguez, James P. Pitts

“…The nest was excavated before hunting. This is the first description of the behavior of Pepsis montezuma.…”
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HOABINHIAN IN VIETNAM AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES FROM 20,000 TO 7,000 YEARS BP by Khac Su Nguyen

“… This article studies the basic economic activities of Hoa Binh cultural inhabitants in the period of 20,000 to 7,000 years BP, including tool making, hunting, gathering, and primitive agriculture. The research results have identified a number of key economic characteristics of Hoa Binh cultural residents and evaluated the effectiveness of human methods of finding and gathering food under the fluctuations of the natural environment during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene in northern Vietnam. …”
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Independently Rotating Wheels with Induction Motors for High-Speed Trains by B. Liang, S. D. Iwnicki

“…The use of an independently rotating wheelset (IRW) can potentially eliminate the cause of wheelset hunting and reduce wheel wear as the mechanical feedback mechanism causing the problem is decoupled. …”
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Ecosystem Services Provided by Grass-legume Pastures by Jose C. B. Dubeux, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Mark Mauldin, Liza Garcia

“…Ecosystem services (ES) provided by grasslands include not only products such as beef and milk (provisioning services), but also biological N2-fixation (BNF) and nutrient cycling (supporting ES), carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation, water catchment and purification, shade, windbreaks, habitat for pollinators and wildlife (regulating ES), and finally cultural (e.g., hunting, bird watching) and aesthetical ES. Grassland managers are providing these benefits to the entire society and they should receive compensation. …”
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The Analysis of Recorded Causes of Death of Adult Eagles in Georgia in 1973–2022 by Aleksandre Abuladze

“…In addition to the materials collected by the author together with assistants, for the collecting of statistical data regarding raptor mortality (including eagles), in 1978– 1985 and in 1990–1991 special questionnaires were prepared and distributed to all regions, autonomous republics and districts of Georgia, to regional inspectors of regional branches of the former State Nature Conservation Committee, employees of the former Department of Nature Reserves and Hunting Industry of Georgia, stuff of the former Georgian Society of hunters, regional branches of hunters and falconers societies, zoologists and conservationists working in nature reserves, universities, nature history museums, as well as to local amateur naturalists, birdwatchers and school teachers…”
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The first oases in Eastern Arabia: society and craft technology, in the 3rd millennium BC at Hili, United Arab Emirates by Sophie Méry

“…Approximately a century after, a new type of society/culture emerges, the Wadi Suq Culture, but the subsistence economy of which will continue to base on the agricultural oasis system - except in the (or most of the) coastal sites and the stopping places / hunting places -. The analysis proposed here is centered on the example of the oasis of Hili in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. …”
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Pourquoi consommer la viande de brousse ? Réponses auprès des populations de Yangambi et de Kisangani, République Démocratique du Congo by Olivier Igugu, Theodore Tréfon

“…Population growth, used hunting techniques and deforestation are the main explanations for the decline in wildlife resources in the area. …”
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‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim by Myer Siemiatycki

“…To the end, Julian Tuwim was a powerful, troubled Polish-Jewish literary voice. He was ever hunting for the words that could change his world and ours.…”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Especially in Beloved, the most famous of her novels, in wich, throughout the ghost figure came back to hunting her mother, appears one of the hardest reality of human history : slavery experience. …”
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Musical Instruments of the Turkic Peoples of the Volga Region and Urals by Gulnara Khayrullina

“…Singing was accompanied by pagan and mystical sacraments, holidays, household and daily rituals such as hunting, harvesting and much more, including military campaigns. …”
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La saveur du cœur et l’amertume du corps by Karen Shiratori, Daniel Cangussu

“…In light of the recent ethnographic production on the indigenous Arawá peoples and the research in historical ecology dedicated to the lands of the Juruá-Purus interfluve, this article proposes a reflection on plant poisons, hunting and fishing, based on the sociality, shamanism and body-making practices of the indigenous peoples of this region. …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…While the scholarship recounting this relationship is not new, recent studies built on pioneering environmental and cultural histories (re)introduced many of the salient topics related to the showcasing of animals and imperialism such as conquest, disease, breeding, scientific categorization, animal welfare, vivisection, zoos, hunting, and conservation.…”
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Ethnozoology of bushmeat by Romain Duda, Sandrine Gallois, Victoria Reyes-García

“…However, the increase of bushmeat consumption in towns and more efficient hunting practices have pushed the harvest of wild animals to unsustainable levels, generating a “bushmeat crisis”. …”
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