Sentences with phrase «many predator animals»

We don't really have predator animals in the suburbs, aside from feral cats, and I think there are less of those because we have some coyotes, occasionally.
The art house elements of Demon are obvious, from the glossy, perfectly framed neon visuals to the haute couture — borrowed from fashion houses like Schiaparelli and Yves Saint Laurent — to thematic touches like the presence of predator animals strewn throughout the film.
Many predator animals guard their food, even from others in their group / pack.
As a shelter we hear many sad incidences involving predator animals like Coyotes, Owls, Eagles.
For example, dogs, which are predator animals, behave differently than prey animals, like rabbits and horses, which tend to hide their pain.
He observed instances of prey and predator animals bonding at zoos and other environments.
On the plus side, this XP flows into a skill tree with three branches divided across Warrior, Hunter and Seer disciplines and filled with brilliant stuff like sleep darts, the ability to tame predator animals, and a neat ability that allows you to turn corpses into plague bombs.
Fixed an issue during the «Blood in the Water» quest where predator animals would disappear when the playable character is getting desynchronized

Not exact matches

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..
This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).
And much larger prey animals, such as pigs, which are also unclean animals, so there could only have been one pair, would be needed for the larger predators.
The only available food source becomes larger herd animals, a daunting challenge even for the largest of predators.
Here the truce will hold even among the animals, between predators and prey.
Animal protectionists cast a great deal of ire on the wildlife damage control programs, especially the work performed by USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services (hereafter WS) which has historically administered predator control programs in the U.S.. For example, activists reject the idea that coyote control programs are needed to protect flocks from costly predation.
In light of Larson's findings, it would seem clear that animal protectionists have not proven that trapping is an unnecessary component for effective predator management.
They used it as protection against animals like predators.
Just like sexual predators, people that lack empathy for the pain of other people and animals are sick.
Says Glen Sutton, who spent over four decades working as a predator trapper for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, embracing some of its methods but disdaining others, «I'm afraid a lot of these animals are going to be extinct soon.
A predator is an animal that eats other animals.
This feature helps with movement, and so helps animals hunt for food and avoid predators.
Animals with less dependent newborns, infants that can literally walk away from the birth site, also ingest their placentas, regardless of the reality that they could be miles away from the location before becoming vulnerable to a predator.
Animals who don't fear predators get eaten by them.
Compare mammal skulls and determine the adaptations that have allowed the animal to survive as a predator or prey.
SARASOTA — Scientist Carl Luer has spent most of his life studying an animal humans inherently fear: sharks.The predators of the sea have been the villains of thriller tales since the 1974 novel, Jaws They've invaded the streets of Los Angeles in the...
One of the unmentioned pros of animals consuming the placenta is to protect their young from predators in the wild.
Animals eat their after birth to diminish the smell of birth from predators.
Animal welfare organisations are equally concerned about domestic wild animals which are often regarded as pests or predators by farmers and land owners.
The annual Bob Evans Memorial Predator Calling Hunt, which last year raised the hackles of an animal rights group and others, was cancelled earlier this month due to lack of entries by the event's registration deadline.
With the usual fanfare, Democratic candidate Mike Hein signed legislation creating an animal abuse registry to protect animals against human predators.
To tiny sea animals it's a predator with long, stinging tentacles.
Scientists think the phenomenon known as unihemispheric sleep allows the animals to spot approaching predators, giving them a few crucial seconds to make their escape.
Blowfish, balloon fish, puffer fish, porcupine fish — whatever you want to call these aquatic animals, they bear an effective deterrent against predators.
«How fear alone can cause animal extinction: Even the smell of a predator can have disastrous effects in populations of small size.»
Since then, Kadouri and others have looked at the predator's ability to devour dangerous pathogens in animals.
«Examples with predators were limited to social animals, such as meerkats, where small groups spend more time being vigilant and consequently are more likely to go extinct.
While Darwin observed that animals» colors and markings had often evolved from natural selection, either to conceal them from predators or to attract mates, the American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer insisted that coloration evolved only for concealment.
As for camouflage, the bright colors of many small animals have not evolved for that function but for the purposes of attracting a mate or signaling kin or a predator.
Sharks are superb predators, but even they are no match for the animal kingdom's most disgusting yet effective defense: the gag - inducing slime of the hagfish.
To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).
The bony tails sported by some dinosaurs made formidable weapons capable of bringing down massive predators — yet today virtually no animals have tails that double as weapons.
It's no surprise that animals that live under constant threat from predators are extra-cautious, while those that face fewer risks appear to be more reckless.
In mustelids like the Indonesian stink badger (Mydaus javanensis) and the African skunk (Ictonyx striatus), animals with more complex facial shading were more likely to be able to spray a noxious fluid jet from their anal glands, warning predators to keep their distance.
Apparent death, as it is scientifically called, is an involuntary physiological response similar to fainting that causes the opossum to appear and smell like a dead or dying animal, thereby deterring predators who generally prefer live prey.
Animal vocalisations are usually made in relatively narrow behavioural contexts linked to emotional states, such as to express aggressive motivation or to warn about potential predators.
Sperm can suffer damage by free radicals when an animal is stressed, for example when fleeing predators or even working too hard.
But when faced with a large land - based predator, eels will launch themselves from the water and electrify the animal with a touch of the head.
Being part of a group can be extremely beneficial to animals as a way to obtain food, defend themselves from predators or cope with environmental changes.
Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.
Wildlife biologists were concerned about delisting the animals there as state officials had sought a «predator zone» — where wolves could be shot on sight — covering almost 90 percent of the state.
Sperling says that the need to avoid predators (and pursue prey) may have driven animals into the water column above the seabed, where enhanced oxygen levels enabled them to expend energy through swimming.
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