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Comparative Skull Analysis Suggests Species-Specific Captivity-Related Malformation in Lions (Panthera leo)

Lion (Panthera leo) populations have dramatically decreased worldwide with a surviving population estimated at 32,000 across the African savannah. Lions have been kept in captivity for centuries and, although they reproduce well, high rates of stillbirths as well as morbidity and mortality of neonat...

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Autores principales: Saragusty, Joseph, Shavit-Meyrav, Anat, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Nadler, Rona, Bdolah-Abram, Tali, Gibeon, Laura, Hildebrandt, Thomas B., Shamir, Merav H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24718586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094527