28 October 2024

Development of a welfare assessment tool for tourist camp elephants in Asia

Shaw Badenhorst, Handling Editor

10 October 2024

Spring haul-out behavior of seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: implications for abundance estimation

"This paper provides information that is of importance to understanding the ecology of the species."

Suzanne Prange, Handling Editor

30 September 2024

Continuing challenges of elephant captivity: the captive environment, health issues, and welfare implications

"I echo the comments of the editor."

Jennifer Vonk, Section Editor

27 September 2024

Sloth metabolism may make survival untenable under climate change scenarios

"Important conservation issue for a less well studied species!"

Jennifer Vonk, Section Editor

19 September 2024

Population structure and selective signature of Kirghiz sheep by Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChip

"Bioinformatic analysis to identify gen signatures in sheeps"

Carlos Fernandez-Lozano, Handling Editor

5 September 2024

Experimental assessment of diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) protocols

"Computed tomographic (CT) scans have become an increasingly standard way of assessing morphological features of hard and soft tissues in small animal. In tihs paper, the authors describe a new methodology to treat larger specimens (> 1 kg) with Lugol's iodine which should greatly increase the potential for the morphology of larger animals to be quantified."

John Measey, Section Editor

28 August 2024

Phylogenetic synthesis of morphological and molecular data reveals insights on the classification of diogenid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

"it gives contribution and cover the gap to its related field"

Cemal Turan, Handling Editor

19 July 2024

Physiological thermal responses of three Mexican snakes with distinct lifestyles

"This study will be useful to scientists studying the thermal biology of ectothermic vertebrates, especially snakes."

Daniel Hughes, Handling Editor

17 July 2024

Insects’ perception and behavioral responses to plant semiochemicals

"The article successfully combines depth of analysis, simplicity of presentation, specific examples, and at the same time gives a fairly new look at the topic studied. I think that this article will be of interest not only to entomologists, but also to physiologists, plant protection specialists and ecologists."

Viktor Brygadyrenko, Handling Editor

12 July 2024

Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on Allium host in India

Ravinder Kumar, Handling Editor