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History of Onychophorology, 1826-2020
Julian Monge-Najera
Velvet worms, or onychophorans, are animals of extraordinary importance in the study of evolution. This is the first history of their study. They were described by Lansdown Guildin…
Velvet Worms (Onychophora) in Folklore and Art: Geographic Pattern, Types of Cultural Reference and Public Perception
Julian Monge-Najera, Bernal Morera-Brenes
Aims: To document and preserve folkloric beliefs and art inspired by velvet worms (Onychophora), rare invertebrates that are considered "living fossils", have full placental organs…
Sexual videos in Internet: a test of 11 hypotheses about intimate practices and gender interactions in Latin America
Julián Monge-Nájera, Karla Vega Corrales
There is a marked lack of literature on user-submitted sexual videos from Latin America. To start filling that gap, we present a formal statistical testing of several hypotheses ab…
Air pollution in a tropical city: the relationship between wind direction and lichen bio-indicators in San José, Costa Rica
Erich Neurohr Bustamante, Julián Monge-Nájera, María Isabel González Lutz
Lichens are good bio-indicators of air pollution, but in most tropical countries there are few studies on the subject; however, in the city of San José, Costa Rica, the relationshi…
A new giant species of placented worm and the mechanism by which onychophorans weave their nets (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
Bernal Morera-Brenes, Julián Monge-Nájera
Onychophorans, or velvet worms, are poorly known and rare animals. Here we report the discovery of a new species that is also the largest onychophoran found so far, a 22cm long fem…
Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica)
Julián Monge-Nájera, Gabriela Pérez-Gómez
Urban vegetation is of key importance because a large proportion of the human population lives in cities. Nevertheless, urban vegetation is understudied outside central Europe and…