The Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis),a near threatened bird and one of eight pelican species in the world,can be found only in South and Southeast Asia over an area between 129000 and 181000 km 2 with stron...The Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis),a near threatened bird and one of eight pelican species in the world,can be found only in South and Southeast Asia over an area between 129000 and 181000 km 2 with strongholds in India,Sri Lanka,southern Cambodia and coastal areas of Sumatra.In India,it is presently distributed in southern and northeastern India with concentrations in Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu,Karnataka and Assam states.An ethogram of the Spot-billed Pelican was presented and as many as 25 individual behaviors grouped under nine different categories were described:resting,alert,comfort/maintenance,locomotion,foraging,antagonistic,sexual,chick care and foraging,and vocalizations.Descriptions of behaviors of the Spot-billed Pelican in this paper would be immensely useful while preparing conservation and management plan for the species present both in the captive and wild condition.展开更多
The breeding biology of the Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis)was investigated from September 2007 to September 2010 in Karaivetti Lake,Tamil Nadu,India.The Spot-billed Pelican breeds between November and Apr...The breeding biology of the Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis)was investigated from September 2007 to September 2010 in Karaivetti Lake,Tamil Nadu,India.The Spot-billed Pelican breeds between November and April at the Karaivetti Lake.It also breeds roughly during the same period at other breeding sites in Tamil Nadu,except for the Vedanthangal and Karikili bird sanctuaries,where pelicans arrives much earlier and their breeding activities start and end to some extent ahead of the other sites,i.e.,from September to March.In essence,the breeding season starts after the onset of the northeast monsoon in Tamil Nadu.A few days after their arrival,pelicans perform courtship display,form pairs,start nest construction and lay eggs.Courtship display is not as attractive and impressive as in other waterbirds.The clutch size varies from two to three eggs and the incubation period from 25 to 36 days.The fledging period varies from a minimum of 90 to a maximum of 102 days.The nest success rate of the Spot-billed Pelican at Karaivetti was 90.28% during the study period.展开更多
Literature on spot-billed pelican has not been reviewed lately which could provide a critique of the emerging data. We have now chosen it as a key species through which we suggest a conservation action plan which will...Literature on spot-billed pelican has not been reviewed lately which could provide a critique of the emerging data. We have now chosen it as a key species through which we suggest a conservation action plan which will benefit several waterbird species. The information provided here is scholastic in nature and is meant to focus on aspects that require attention and help plan future work for applied conservation. All known information on this species is brought together in this review which will also provide an update of its biology. Notes on the breeding biology of the species first published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. So far, 380 works have appeared on the species; of these, 36 contain material reported in earlier works or appeared as papers subsequently. Most appeared as articles in journals, both national and regional, a few international journals, newsletters/bulletins （48.2%）, 4 dissertations, 76 reports and 6 popular science articles in magazines. This review on the species will provide an insight into different factors that can be weighed and combined while making a decision in investing resources in species conservation, i.e. importance of the species, level of threat and the time frame over which results are to be achieved.展开更多
《新塘鹅英国文学指南》(The New Peli-can Guide to English Literature)是在1954年初次出版的《塘鹅英国文学指南》(The Peli-can Guide to English Literature)的基础上,经过十五次重印,于1982年大事增订修改后出版的一套新书。目前...《新塘鹅英国文学指南》(The New Peli-can Guide to English Literature)是在1954年初次出版的《塘鹅英国文学指南》(The Peli-can Guide to English Literature)的基础上,经过十五次重印,于1982年大事增订修改后出版的一套新书。目前,这套丛书在英国销路很畅。展开更多
Advancements in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning techniques have significantly pro-pelled the automation of Legal Judgment Prediction,achieving remarkable progress in legal research.Most of the existing r...Advancements in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning techniques have significantly pro-pelled the automation of Legal Judgment Prediction,achieving remarkable progress in legal research.Most of the existing research works on Legal Judgment Prediction(LJP)use traditional optimization algorithms in deep learning techniques falling into local optimization.This research article focuses on using the modified Pelican Optimization method which mimics the collective behavior of Pelicans in the exploration and exploitation phase during cooperative food searching.Typically,the selection of search agents within a boundary is done randomly,which increases the time required to achieve global optimization.To address this,the proposed Chaotic Opposition Learning-based Pelican Optimization(COLPO)method incorporates the concept of Opposition-Based Learning combined with a chaotic cubic function,enabling deterministic selection of random numbers and reducing the number of iterations needed to reach global optimization.Also,the LJP approach in this work uses improved semantic similarity and entropy features to train a hybrid classifier combining Bi-GRU and Deep Maxout.The output scores are fused using improved score level fusion to boost prediction accuracy.The proposed COLPO method experiments with real-time Madras High Court criminal cases(Dataset 1)and the Supreme Court of India database(Dataset 2),and its performance is compared with nature-inspired algorithms such as Sparrow Search Algorithm(SSA),COOT,Spider Monkey Optimization(SMO),Pelican Optimization Algorithm(POA),as well as baseline classifier models and transformer neural networks.The results show that the proposed hybrid classifier with COLPO outperforms other cutting-edge LJP algorithms achieving 93.4%and 94.24%accuracy,respectively.展开更多
基金Trichy-1 for academic support throughout the studythe Department of Science and Technology (SERCFasttrack Young scientist Scheme),India for fundingthe Tamil Nadu Forest Department for granting me the required permission.
文摘The Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis),a near threatened bird and one of eight pelican species in the world,can be found only in South and Southeast Asia over an area between 129000 and 181000 km 2 with strongholds in India,Sri Lanka,southern Cambodia and coastal areas of Sumatra.In India,it is presently distributed in southern and northeastern India with concentrations in Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu,Karnataka and Assam states.An ethogram of the Spot-billed Pelican was presented and as many as 25 individual behaviors grouped under nine different categories were described:resting,alert,comfort/maintenance,locomotion,foraging,antagonistic,sexual,chick care and foraging,and vocalizations.Descriptions of behaviors of the Spot-billed Pelican in this paper would be immensely useful while preparing conservation and management plan for the species present both in the captive and wild condition.
基金India for funding the studythe Tamil Nadu Forest Department for granting me the required permission
文摘The breeding biology of the Spot-billed Pelican(Pelecanus philippensis)was investigated from September 2007 to September 2010 in Karaivetti Lake,Tamil Nadu,India.The Spot-billed Pelican breeds between November and April at the Karaivetti Lake.It also breeds roughly during the same period at other breeding sites in Tamil Nadu,except for the Vedanthangal and Karikili bird sanctuaries,where pelicans arrives much earlier and their breeding activities start and end to some extent ahead of the other sites,i.e.,from September to March.In essence,the breeding season starts after the onset of the northeast monsoon in Tamil Nadu.A few days after their arrival,pelicans perform courtship display,form pairs,start nest construction and lay eggs.Courtship display is not as attractive and impressive as in other waterbirds.The clutch size varies from two to three eggs and the incubation period from 25 to 36 days.The fledging period varies from a minimum of 90 to a maximum of 102 days.The nest success rate of the Spot-billed Pelican at Karaivetti was 90.28% during the study period.
文摘Literature on spot-billed pelican has not been reviewed lately which could provide a critique of the emerging data. We have now chosen it as a key species through which we suggest a conservation action plan which will benefit several waterbird species. The information provided here is scholastic in nature and is meant to focus on aspects that require attention and help plan future work for applied conservation. All known information on this species is brought together in this review which will also provide an update of its biology. Notes on the breeding biology of the species first published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. So far, 380 works have appeared on the species; of these, 36 contain material reported in earlier works or appeared as papers subsequently. Most appeared as articles in journals, both national and regional, a few international journals, newsletters/bulletins （48.2%）, 4 dissertations, 76 reports and 6 popular science articles in magazines. This review on the species will provide an insight into different factors that can be weighed and combined while making a decision in investing resources in species conservation, i.e. importance of the species, level of threat and the time frame over which results are to be achieved.
文摘《新塘鹅英国文学指南》(The New Peli-can Guide to English Literature)是在1954年初次出版的《塘鹅英国文学指南》(The Peli-can Guide to English Literature)的基础上,经过十五次重印,于1982年大事增订修改后出版的一套新书。目前,这套丛书在英国销路很畅。
文摘Advancements in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning techniques have significantly pro-pelled the automation of Legal Judgment Prediction,achieving remarkable progress in legal research.Most of the existing research works on Legal Judgment Prediction(LJP)use traditional optimization algorithms in deep learning techniques falling into local optimization.This research article focuses on using the modified Pelican Optimization method which mimics the collective behavior of Pelicans in the exploration and exploitation phase during cooperative food searching.Typically,the selection of search agents within a boundary is done randomly,which increases the time required to achieve global optimization.To address this,the proposed Chaotic Opposition Learning-based Pelican Optimization(COLPO)method incorporates the concept of Opposition-Based Learning combined with a chaotic cubic function,enabling deterministic selection of random numbers and reducing the number of iterations needed to reach global optimization.Also,the LJP approach in this work uses improved semantic similarity and entropy features to train a hybrid classifier combining Bi-GRU and Deep Maxout.The output scores are fused using improved score level fusion to boost prediction accuracy.The proposed COLPO method experiments with real-time Madras High Court criminal cases(Dataset 1)and the Supreme Court of India database(Dataset 2),and its performance is compared with nature-inspired algorithms such as Sparrow Search Algorithm(SSA),COOT,Spider Monkey Optimization(SMO),Pelican Optimization Algorithm(POA),as well as baseline classifier models and transformer neural networks.The results show that the proposed hybrid classifier with COLPO outperforms other cutting-edge LJP algorithms achieving 93.4%and 94.24%accuracy,respectively.
