Sentences with phrase «because herbivores»

Because herbivores digest their food with the help of special bacteria in the intestines, too much food that is high in starch or sugar, such as grains or fruit, can upset the balance of these bacteria and result in digestive upsets or obesity.

The season is especially important for Vitamin K2 content because herbivores and ruminants convert Vitamin K1 into Vitamin K2 — and K1 is in the green grass (it likes to hang out with chlorophyll).

HSS noted interspecific competition among members of each level and concluded that because herbivores are seldom food limited, they appear to be most often predator limited and thus unlikely to compete for common resources.

This is because the herbivores have to eat ten kilos of plants to produce one kilo of flesh.

For plants, it's often because some herbivore is snacking on them.

Not exact matches

Herbivore coprolites are rare in the fossil record because a diet of leaves and other green plant material doesn't leave a lot of hard material to preserve (unlike bones in carnivore dung).

Without large grazing herbivores to eat them, acacia trees suffer because of a shift in the ant populations they house

Very few herbivores bother with moss because it is mostly rough fiber with not much more nutrition than paper.

Some of those studies predicted extinctions because growing herbivore populations would reduce the number of plants, limiting resources available to pollinators.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

The «enemy release» hypothesis holds that certain invading species succeed because they escape from their natural enemies — pathogens, parasites, herbivores and predators — in their native habitat.

Many areas along the Lamar lack streamside willows and other woody plants because they were stripped away by elk and other herbivores, he explains.

Because both new branches include carnivores and herbivores, Baron's team concludes that the common ancestor of all dinosaurs may have been omnivorous.

Everything appeared reasonable, because ever since the first description in 1910, it was assumed that these large herbivores were something like «cows» of the Paleozoic.

«We've known for a long time that herbivores do eat other insects, but so far people studying herbivory have kind of ignored that because it's a lot easier to put herbivores in a neat bin in which they only eat plants,» says Michigan State University ecologist William Wetzel, who did not participate in the study.

She recommends Herbivore's Blue Tansy Mask because it contains exfoliating fruit acids and anti-inflammatory blue tansy.

Dogs don't have the digestive system omnivores or herbivores do because theirs is designed to digest animal protein like pork, chicken, and fish.

Obligate herbivores, because of the low caloric density of their food, often require constant grazing — think cows and sheep.

You keep talking happily about heme iron, the worse possible version for humans, because we can not regulate how much is absorbed, and excess is as problematic as deficiency, while we handle perfectly alright how much we absorb from plants (as herbivores we evolved to handle that source).

There are plenty of strong and lean herbivores I could point to in the animal kingdom as some sort of proof that human should eat plant based diets, but that would be ridiculous, because humans aren't herbivores.

Because of this, these herbivores are called «hindgut fermenters.»

Intense fires and grazing by introduced herbivores created conditions that are favoured by cats, probably because their hunting success is improved.

Because guinea pigs are herbivores, they require hay to aid their digestion and to provide necessary wear on their continually growing teeth.

We tend to lump all herbivores into the same category, but, in reality, not all herbivores can eat the same sort of diet — because not all plants are created equally!

Because rabbits and guinea pigs are both herbivores, they have a lot in common and therefore share many common needs that retailers will want to discuss with customers looking to stock up on the necessities for their pets.

Because they are carnivores, while most other small pets are omnivores or herbivores, their feces are much more offensive, and the scent glands in their skin produce strong odors.

Because most plants contain a fairly high level of fiber, the digestive tracts of herbivores are designed to deal with large amounts of plant fiber.

Because the natural diet of herbivores is so high in fiber, their teeth are designed to grow throughout the animal's life.

Because of the high amount of herbivores, around 20 % of guests are lucky enough to spot jaguar on the riverbank.

because carnivore fish can not survive without herbivore fish!

New research links large herbivores to a forest's capacity to store carbon dioxide because of the animals» ability to disperse the larger seeds that become big trees, which store the most carbon.