Alopex

Arctic fox, Alopex iagopus, Norway 1984-86 liver Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus 6.0 (2.4-26.0) FW 92... 

Compound 1080 was also effective against jackrabbits, foxes, and moles. Baits containing 0.05 to 0.1% 1080 on vegetables were used in California to kill jackrabbits (Lepus spp.) and various rodents (Schitoskey 1975). The Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus), intentionally introduced onto the Aleutian Islands in 1835 (Bailey 1993), almost eliminated the Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucoparlia) by 1967. 1080-tallow baits were successfully used to control fox populations (Byrd et al. 1988 Tietjen et al. 1988 Bailey 1993). Earthworm baits are used to kill moles. The earthworms are soaked for 45 min in a 2.5% solution of 1080 and placed in mole burrows. The solution can be used several times for additional lots of worms however, the use of the manure worm (Eisenia foetida) should be avoided because it is seldom eaten by moles (Peacock 1964). 

Byrd, G.V., G.T. McClellan, and J.P. Fuller. 1988. To Determine the Efficacy and Environmental Hazards of Compound 1080 (Sodium Fluoroacetate) as a Control Agent for Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) on Kiska Island, Aleutians Islands Unit — Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AIU-AMNWR) (Field Investigations). Unpublished final progress report by AIU-AMNWR. 22 pp. 

The few field investigations on the toxicokinetics of chiral OC pesticides in terrestrial mammals have shown that the species extensively studied - polar bears (Ursus maritimus), Arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus), and wolverines Gulo gulo) - possess a relatively high capacity to degrade these POPs. 

Klobes, U. Vetter, W. Glotz, D. Luckas, B. Skirnisson, K. Hersteinsson, P, Levels and enantiomeric ratios of chlorinated hydrocarbons in livers of Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) and adipose tissue and liver of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sampled in Iceland Intern. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 1998, 69, 67-81. 

A compound closely related to diclofop-methyl is clofop-isobutyl, isobutyl 2-[4-(4-chlorophenoxy)phenoxy] propionate (26), introduced under the code number Hoe 22 870 (Alopex ) (Schwerdtie et al., 1975). 

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FIGURE 3.1 An ALOPEX system. The stimulus is presented on the cathode ray tube (CRT). The observer or any pattern recognition device (PRD) faces the CRT the subject s response is sent to the ALOPEX interface unit where it is recorded and integrated and the fi nal response is sent to the computer. The computer calculates the values of the new pattern to be presented on the CRT according to the ALOPEX algorithm and the process continues until the desired pattern appears on the CRT. At this point the response is considered to be optimal and the process stops. 

Perception processes as well as feature extraction or suppression of images or objects can be ascribed to specific neural mechanisms due to some sensory input, or even due to some Visbful thinking" of the PRD. If it is true that the association cortex is affecting the sensitivity of the sensory cortex, then an ALOPEX mechanism is what one needs to close the loop for memory and learning. 

FIGURE 3.2 Schematic representation of the ALOPEX inverse pattern recognition scheme. Each neuron represents a feature analyzer, which responds to the stimulus with a scalar quantity R called the response. R is then fed back to the system and the pattern is modified accordingly. This process continues until there is an almost perfect correlation between the desired output and the original pattern. 

Energy metabolism of growing blue foxes, Alopex lagopus... 

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