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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L’engoulevent ou l’étrangeté porteuse de malheur (Nord du Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…Often singularly complex, they start off with collective bird hunting. The child thereby preserved is given an apotropaic name at birth: “engoulevent” (long-tailed nightjar in French). …”
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Po co matematykom Jan Jakub Rousseau? by Alina Kalinowska, Adam Stański

“…One day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who was known mainly as a philosopher and a pedagogue, told a deer hunting story. In doing so, he managed to play a small role in the development of the branch of maths called ‘game theory’. …”
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Gorilla Tourism in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: An Actor-Network Perspective by René, van der Duim, Christine, Ampumuza

“…We depict a number of translations in which gorillas were designated and enrolled as coexisting with local livelihood practices, as ‘‘trophies’’ in the hunting network, ‘‘man’s closest neighbor’’ in the scientific network, ‘‘endangered species’’ in the conservation network, and finally, through habituation processes, became part of the tourism network. …”
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Thinning Southern Pines - A Key to Greater Returns by Chris Demers, Michael Andreu, Babe McGowan, Alan Long, Jarek Nowak

“…In addition, thinning provides periodic income, improves access for equipment, recreation and hunting, and creates a generally healthier stand. …”
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An Introduction to Harvest Tags for Marine Recreational Fisheries by Edward Camp, Zachary Siders, Andrew Ropicki, Frank Asche

“…This publication describes harvest tag approaches, discussing how they are already used in fishing and hunting and describing some of the potential benefits and costs if they were applied in Florida. …”
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Navigating pitfalls and misinterpretations in the use of historical sources for Huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) conservation: A critique to Flueck et al. (2023) by Norma I. Díaz, Paulo Corti

“…In a recent article, Flueck et al. (2023) argue that the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus), an endemic South American deer species, historically occupied open habitats and islands, such as Tierra del Fuego, and that its decline was primarily due to indigenous hunting, commercial export of hides to Europe, habitat alteration by settlers, and the introduction of exotic species. …”
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An r-Hiding Revocable Group Signature Scheme: Group Signatures with the Property of Hiding the Number of Revoked Users by Keita Emura, Atsuko Miyaji, Kazumasa Omote

“…If there are many displaced workers in a company, then a person who goes for job hunting might not select this company. That is, the number of members who quit is quite negative information. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Yet, large wild animals are almost never to be found in his novels and the long-awaited encounter with deadly predators does not occur, forcing the narrator to reconfigure the relationship between masculinity and animality. Taking the popular hunting narratives featured in men’s adventure magazines as the dominant norm in this regard, this paper aims at showing how Kerouac’s representation of masculinity and animality strongly diverges from the erotics of male predation to be found in the “real man VS wild beast” plot. …”
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Temps, progrès et races dans les Lumières écossaises by Silvia Sebastiani

“…Why had Amerindians remained in the ‘savage’ stage of hunting ? Why were the societies of Northern Europe considered the only ones to have completed all the stages of historic progress ? …”
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Thinning Southern Pines - A Key to Greater Returns by Chris Demers, Michael Andreu, Babe McGowan, Alan Long, Jarek Nowak

“…In addition, thinning provides periodic income, improves access for equipment, recreation and hunting, and creates a generally healthier stand. …”
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GREY WOLF OPTIMIZER BASED OPTIMAL PLACEMENT OF MULTIPLE FACTS DEVICES IN THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM UNDER DYNAMIC LOADING SYSTEM by YUSUF SAMUEL SUNDAY, OKORIE PATRICK UBEH, ABUBAKAR ADAMU SAIDU, ALHASSAN FAHAD

“…Grey wolf optimization (GWO) technique is inspired by social hierarchy and hunting behaviour of wolves and offers a right balance between exploration and exploitation during the search for global optimal. …”
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Co-evolution of fish and rice farming by Austroasiatic communities in the Neolithic Era and early documentation of aquaculture in China by Peter Edwards

“…This enabled Austroasiatic people to gather wild foods, terrestrial and aquatic nuts as well as fish and rice. A mixed economy of hunting, gathering and fishing evolved into the co- evolution of fish and rice farming.…”
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Environmental Education Model Based on Local Wisdom of the Dayak Paramasan Tribe Indonesia by D. F. Wardhani, D. Arisanty, A. Nugroho and U. B. L. Utami

“…Local skills, like farming and hunting, have a significant impact on environmental protection. …”
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Ecology and the evolution of cooperation by partner choice and reciprocity by Marcelino Fuentes

“…Partner choice may have allowed humans to use a set of collectively produced goods including clothing, fire, hunting tools, housing, and shared knowledge, to the point that they became essential.…”
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Modified Grey Wolf Optimizer for Global Engineering Optimization by Nitin Mittal, Urvinder Singh, Balwinder Singh Sohi

“…A comparatively new algorithm motivated by the social hierarchy and hunting behavior of grey wolves is Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), which is a very successful algorithm for solving real mechanical and optical engineering problems. …”
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La tradition de la cueillette du miel est-elle un frein au développement de l’apiculture dans l’Aire de Conservation de l’Annapurna (Népal) ? by Samuel Perichon, Chet Bhatta

“…This study explains how social and cultural practices associated with honey hunting can influence beekeeping practices of local hive bees; and why the inhabitants rely on knowledge and practices that are those of hunter-gatherers of honey and not those of beekeepers.…”
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Smart Microgrid Energy Management Using a Novel Artificial Shark Optimization by Pawan Singh, Baseem Khan

“…The ASO algorithm is motivated by the sound sensing capability of sharks, which they use for hunting. Further, the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources is managed by utilizing battery energy storage (BES). …”
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Lesion Distribution and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis in Elk and White-Tailed Deer in South-Western Manitoba, Canada by Todd K. Shury, Doug Bergeson

“…Positive elk and deer were more likely to be found through blood testing, opportunistic surveillance, and culling compared to hunting. No non-lesioned, culture-positive elk were detected in this study compared to previous studies in red deer.…”
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