Sentences with phrase «like humans and other mammals»

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

is it so hard to believe that humans could actually relax and play like other mammals do?

Scientists discovered that newborn human babies could crawl to the breast and feed without help (just like all other mammal newborns).

There are three kinds of mammals: egg - laying monotremes such as the platypus, marsupials like kangaroos and opossums, and the majority — placental, or eutherian, mammals — including humans and about 4400 other mammal species.

«These genes are conserved in humans and other mammals, but their activity is regulated differently after an injury like a heart attack.»

It will also offer necessary context for some of the particularities of being human, who behaved just like other mammals only a few thousand years ago and who still share most underlying basic behavioral characteristics such as hunger and pain.

Like other mammals, the platypus secretes milk through its skin to feed offspring and is warm - blooded — though its body temperature is nine degrees Fahrenheit (five degrees Celsius) cooler than that of a human.

Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first cultured sperm stem cells in the lab, has written that culturing stem cells from human sperm is not far off — humans and mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth factors.

Hardy pointed out that only aquatic mammals like walruses and hippopotamuses have naked skin and subcutaneous fat — human traits not shared by other apes.

The man's lactose intolerance is the one thing that was not surprising, since a hunter - gatherer would not drink milk beyond infancy — just like other mammals and all modern humans with the exception of those who come from milk - drinking cultures, Carles Lalueza - Fox explained.

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

This system is similar to the way other large mammals like horses are controlled and led by humans.