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    Turtles Are Not Just Walking Stones: Conspicuous Coloration and Sexual Selection in Freshwater Turtles.Jindřich Brejcha & Karel Kleisner - 2016 - Biosemiotics 9 (2):247-266.
    Turtles are among the most intriguing amniotes but their communication and signaling have rarely been studied. Traditionally, they have been seen as basically just silent armored ‘walking stones’ with complex physiology but no altruism, maternal care, or aesthetic perception. Recently, however, we have witnessed a radical change in the perception of turtle behavioral and cognitive skills. In our study, we start by reviewing some recent findings pertaining to various highly developed behavioral and cognitive patterns with special emphasis on turtles. Then (...)
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    Mosaici d’oro nelle chiese di Venezia ( ix - xiv secolo). Luci sull’ingente patrimonio perduto.Simone Piazza - 2020 - Convivium 7 (1):55-79.
    Attempting to assess the spread of golden mosaic decorations in Venice during the middle ages, scholars have thus far focused mainly on the existing, most famous examples: San Marco, Torcello, and Murano. A careful reading of early descriptions and chronicles from the fourteenth into the eighteenth centuries, however, uncovers many more examples. The texts of erudite authors such as Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506), Marino Sanudo (1466-1536), and Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586) often mention golden vaults (testudines or cubae aureae) in medieval Venetian (...)
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  3. Ocorrência do cágado Bufocephala vanderhaegei (Testudines, Chelidae) no Estado do Tocantins.A. M. Villaça - 1999 - Humanitas 4 (1).
     
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