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Mammal husbandry for friendship Mammals are by far our favorite nonhuman companions: in 2015, Americans spent over $60 billion on their pets-a sum that is part of an upward trend likely to continue (…
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Why Study Mammals? - Lecture 1.2
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Mammals form critical links in terrestrial and aquatic food webs
- 3 Discussion: Gray wolves (Canis lupus) were part of the natural ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park, but were deliberately exterminated there (and throughout most of the contiguous 48 states) in th…
- 4 Mammal husbandry for food or dairy Mammals on farms and ranches around the world have been a part of human cultures for thousands of years (Zeder 2012)
- 5 Mammal husbandry for friendship Mammals are by far our favorite nonhuman companions: in 2015, Americans spent over $60 billion on their pets-a sum that is part of an upward trend likely to continue (…
- 6 Mammals critical to biomedical research There are now numerous "mouse models" of human diseases-lab strains created by controlled breeding with genotypes matching those of human diabetes, heart disea…
- 7 Mammals can be disease reservoirs or vectors Han et al. (2015) found that 217 of 2,277 rodent species examined (about 10%) are reservoirs for zoonoses (diseases transmitted from animals to humans) ca…
- 8 Mammals as costly invasive species Mammal species may also be pests when they are translocated outside their historical ranges and introduced into novel areas where they thrive at the expense of nati…
- 9 Humans (bipedal, cosmopolitan primates with a hypertrophied brain) are now the primary eco- evolutionary drivers on Planet Earth
