Publications by authors named "Alessandro Araldi"
Vocal individuality is widespread in social animals. Individual variation in vocalizations is a prerequisite for discriminating among conspecifics and may have facilitated the evolution of large complex societies. Ring-tailed lemurs live in relatively large social groups, have conspicuous vocal repertoires, and their species-specific utterances can be interpreted in light of source-filter theory of vocal production.
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- Lions are facing significant conservation challenges due to their declining populations, despite previously being seen as a stable species.
- Researchers utilized non-invasive techniques to analyze mitochondrial genomes from lion hair samples in the Gabonese Plateaux to better understand this specific population.
- The findings revealed that the Plateaux Batéké lion is closely related to both extinct lion populations in Gabon and Congo, as well as to current lion populations in Southern Africa, showcasing the potential of ancient DNA methods for conservation efforts.
Growing threats to primates in tropical forests make robust and long-term population abundance assessments increasingly important for conservation. Concomitantly, monitoring becomes particularly relevant in countries with primate habitat. Yet monitoring schemes in these countries often suffer from logistic constraints and/or poor rigor in data collection, and a lack of consideration of sources of bias in analysis.
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