Description du contenu : Portrait en buste, à l’aquarelle, du Prince Henri d’Orléans (1867-1901), suivi de dessins et aquarelles représentant des mammifères : ; Gorille, chacal et mandril, Rhésus de l’Inde, ouistiti (Brésil), maki et drill (9 pièces). ; Lionceau, liserval, guépard (5 pièces). ; Chat...
The continental Late Miocene is relatively well represented in North Africa, but stratigraphic gaps are present in the Vallesian due to the scarcity of localities from this time. In this paper, we present the small mammal association from the section of Guefaït 1, in the Aïn Beni Mathar Basin (Jerad...
Azokh 1 Cave is located in Southern Caucasus, being an important site for the understanding of human evolution in its archaeological, paleontological, environmental and ecological context. The site presents a continuous archaeological record ranging from Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene with s...
Urban resilience is a global concern, due to the concomitance of climate change and urbanization process. This is particularly true in Abu Dhabi, a rapid growing city in a coastal desert environment. Green infrastructure is considered a key tool for urban resilience and is promoted by the recent Gre...
Urban resilience is a global concern, due to the concomitance of climate change and urbanization process. This is particularly true in Abu Dhabi, a rapid growing city in a coastal desert environment. Green infrastructure is considered a key tool for urban resilience and is promoted by the recent Gre...
An international reference collection of small mammals The collection was created by INRA in the 1930’s in Jouy-en-Josas, and was then fed with dead of living specimens, as well as tissue and DNA/RNA samples by researchers from INRA and IRD. Now located in Montpellier, this world-referenced collecti...
Kaldar Cave is located in the Central Zagros (Khorramabad Valley, Iran), the site was occupied from the Pleistocene (with lithic tools from Middle and Upper Paleolithic) to the Holocene (with Neolithic archaeological remains). Small vertebrates come from Layer 4, attributed to the Upper Paleolithic,...
Rodents of the Meriones shawii/grandis complex have been attested to in North Africa since the Middle Pleistocene and are abundant in archaeological sites. Today, they are widely spread and represent a major pest to local human populations. This complex, therefore, represents an accurate model for i...
Élevage de tiques dures : exemple d’Ixodes ricinus Les tiques dures ont la particularité d’avoir des repas sanguins particulièrement longs (~ 5 à 10 jours) conduisant à une spoliation sanguine importante de l’animal parasité. Les souris ou les gerbilles sont donc adaptées pour les larves et les nymp...
Individual-based or population-level simulation approaches are often employed alternatively in eco-epidemiological modeling. In this paper, we introduce an original coupling approach applied to bubonic plague zoonotic infection in the Pre-Balkhash focus (central Asia), with main host Rhombomys opimu...
Successive Negative Contrast (SNC) is a phenomenon in which there is a sharp decrease in the rate of reinforced behavior immediately after a sudden reduction in quality or quantity of a habitual reinforcer. This phenomenon has become a solid experimental paradigm for the study of frustration in mamm...
Taforalt and El Harhoura 2, located on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Morocco, are two important Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeological sequences dating back >100 ka. In this research we developed a terrestrial palaeoaridity record for the Mediterranean and Atlanti...
Taforalt and El Harhoura 2, two archaeological cave sites located respectively on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Morocco, preserve a long, well stratified sequences of human occupation dating back >100ka. These important Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeological seque...
The stable isotope composition of small mammal tissues has the potential to provide excellent records of terrestrial palaeoclimate, because their remains are found in large abundances in the Quaternary record, and they have small home ranges. However, there is a lack of modern analogous studies on w...
Available evidence indicates that climate in North Africa has varied strongly since the Last Interglacial between periods of humidity and aridity. Here we sought to develop an independent proxy for past humidity shifts in Mediterranean NW Africa over the last 125 ka using stable oxygen and carbon is...
El Harhoura 2, an archaeological cave site on the Atlantic coast of Morocco preserves a long, well stratified sequence of human occupation dating back to the last Inter-glacial . The Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeological contents of the cave can be used to assess the impact...
Certaines zones d’ombre subsistent encore concernant la systématique et l’évolution de certains rongeurs nord-africains non-sahariens. C’est notamment le cas du complexe shawii-grandis au sein du genre Meriones (Muridae, Gerbillinae). Très largement répartis dans les zones bioclimatiques semi-arides...
Comprendre l’évolution des espèces au cours du temps en relation avec d’éventuelles pressions environnementales ou anthropiques doit reposer sur une approche fine des changements phénotypiques des espèces présentes dans des assemblages fossiles. La morphométrie géométrique représente un outil partic...
L’étude des petits mammifères du site Pléistocène supérieur/Holocène de Goda Buticha (Dire Dawa, Ethiopie) par le biais de différentes méthodes d’analyse, ont permis d’appréhender la grande diversité faunique et environnementale en Afrique de l'Est, et en particulier en Ethiopie, lors de la transiti...
In the mouse, the Grueneberg ganglion (GG) is an olfactory subsystem implicated both in chemo- and thermo-sensing. It is specifically involved in the recognition of volatile danger cues such as alarm pheromones and structurally-related predator scents. No evidence for these GG sensory functions has...
Bubonic plague, a zoonotic infection that circulates in wild rodents but is transmissible from them to humans through the bites of infected fleas, is not merely of historical interest. It is widespread in the world today and a continuing threat (Stenseth et al. (2008). In the Pre-Balkhash autonomous...
Dans l’aire de la Faune, deux cent dix-neuf taxa sont actuellement connus. Une nouvelle synonymie est proposée : Typhloceras favosus sintrensis Ribeiro & Capela, 1988, n. syn. pour T. favosus rolandi Jordan, 1938. La description par Mei du mâle de Typhloceras favosus asunicus Jordan, 1938, décrite d...
There are four extant species of Gerbilliscus, formally classified as Tatera, native to the southern African subregion, each exhibiting varying degrees of environmental tolerance. These species are also routinely reported from many of the palaeontological and archaeological sites in the region. We u...
Los jerbos de Mongolia son roedores utilizados como excelente modelo biológico. A pesar de esto, su clasificación como especie diurna, nocturna o crepuscular no ha sido clara. Los experimentos que se presentan en este artículo evaluaron patrones de alimentación, sueño-actividad y actividad reproduct...
Les remplissages (Pléistocène supérieur – Holocène) de la grotte marocaine d’El Harhoura 2 ont livré une microfaune abondante et variée, incluant notamment des restes de rongeurs, d’insectivores, d’amphibiens et de reptiles. Des échantillonnages ont été effectués dans les 8 premières couches, et le...