In addition to a possible role for fleas in transmission, the presence of widespread viral DNA in many tissues from red squirrels suggests several potential routes of transmission are possible including superficial contamination of feeding sites, territorial marking sites, aerosols, faecal-oral routes and direct contact.
We also model territorial group behavior, in which case groups compete with each other for territories (sites).
Because we had relatively low success capturing birds, we estimated turnover probabilities of birds on territorial display sites based on capture histories of a limited number of birds we captured.
It was more pronounced in pericellular sites but sometimes extended to territorial and interterritorial sites.
"Lone Star Nation" describes the endless vicissitudes that made Texas a Mexican territory, the site of a failed uprising that would have turned it into the Republic of Fredonia, and a pawn in the territorial maneuverings of President Andrew Jackson.
Pericellular staining extended from the articular surface into the mid and deep zones and extensive diffuse staining present in pericellular, territorial and interterritorial sites was sometimes pronounced in the superficial, mid and upper deep zones.
National parks form an archipelago of government-run, on-site "museums," geographic sites of territorial and rhetorical nation-building.
That corner of the lane often hosts a pair of noisily territorial robins, and the site looked a good match for them.
Shelley Cuthbert, one-time owner and operator of Any Domesticated Animal Rescue (ADAR) and Boarding Kennel, has been living off-grid on territorial land at a site southwest of Tarfu Lake, Yukon, with 50 dogs since the summer.
In this case, female fecundity would not be explained by territorial male behavior on site.
