Sentences with phrase «pygmy forest»

Contrast these magnificent specimens to the pygmy forests at Van Damme and Jughandle State Parks.

Spruce - moss stands are the most important forest type in depressions, whereas lichen - spruce woodlands and krummholz (pygmy forests; distorted spruce less than 2.5 m high) are distributed on slopes and exposed summits along with lichen - heath - dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa Michx.)

Not exact matches

(Juvenile male forest elephants also develop tusks earlier, leading to mistaken reports of «pygmy elephants» in the region.)

This farming people would then have gradually differentiated genetically from the pygmy hunter - gatherers communities living in forests.

Other long - tailed tits and bushtits are temperate birds, but the pygmy bushtit lives only in the western part of the Indonesian island of Java, in tropical open forests and plantations above 1000 metres.

Researchers believe pygmies» short stature evolved to equip them for their brief lives in the jungle; smaller bodies may move more nimbly through dense forest or be better able to dissipate heat.

«Negative emotions are felt to disturb the harmony of the forest in Pygmy culture and are therefore dangerous,» says Nathalie Fernando of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Music, who has been collecting and documenting Mbenzélé music - making for 10 years.

They're small (the word pygmy refers to any group in whom adult males are under 1.52 meters), they live and hunt in tropical forests, and they die young.

Sarah Tishkoff, center, with Pygmy women Pygmy populations, scientists have speculated, may owe their abbreviated stature to natural selection pressures that allowed them to better adapt to dense tropical forests where heat is oppressive and food is scarce.

Andean flamingo Ashy storm petrel Bald eagle Bicknell's thrush Black - backed woodpecker Black - breasted puffleg Black - capped petrel Blue - billed curassow Brown - banded antpitta Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl California condor California spotted owl Cape Sable seaside sparrow Cauca guan Chatham petrel Chilean woodstar Coastal California gnatcatcher Desert nesting bald eagle Eastern brown pelican Esmeraldas woodstar Fiji petrel Galápagos petrel Hawaiian petrel Heinroth's shearwater «I «iwi Inyo California towhee Kittlitz's murrelet Least Bell's vireo Lesser prairie chicken Magenta petrel Marbled murrelet Medium tree finch Mexican spotted owl Mono Basin area greater sage grouse Newell's shearwater Northern goshawk Northern spotted owl Okinawa woodpecker Penguins Piping plover Queen Charlotte goshawk Rota bridled white - eye Southwestern willow flycatcher Spectacled eider St. Lucia forest thrush Steller's eider Tricolored blackbird Western burrowing owl Western gull - billed tern Western snowy plover White - tailed ptarmigan Xantus's murrelet Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon

To get to the beach is quite an undertaking, but well worth the effort — you have to hike through Atlantic forests thick with hummingbirds, butterflies, tropical flowers and waterfalls with Pygmy and Holy monkeys running everywhere.

Link first encounters a Pygmy Skulltula inside the Forest Temple, where it drops from the ceiling when he attempts to jump over a small gap.

She had just formed The Elephant Listening Project, and within a few months we were headed for our first of two field seasons in the equatorial rainforest of the Central African Republic, where we lived among forest elephants, gorillas, and pygmies.

In the rain forest, there is no such thing as silence and every tiny insect twang and buzz is vividly reproduced — which is particularly appropriate in a film about a man who recorded 1,000 hours of pygmy music *, capturing sounds he fears will soon evaporate as a tide of modernism floods the furthest nooks of this world.

I heard of this white man who was said to be living deep in the rain forest with hunter - gatherer pygmies for decades.

He adds: «This is also a story about how the world of the Bayaka pygmies is dramatically changing,» noting that much of the Congolese rain forest has fallen in the last 30 years.

They are home to nearly half of Africa's mammal species, including the pygmy hippopotamus, Liberian mongoose and West Africa's largest forest elephant population.

Most of Malaysia's forest loss occurred in its densest forests, those with tree cover exceeding 50 percent, which generally store the most carbon and are richest with wildlife, including endangered orangutans, pygmy elephants, Sumatran rhinos, and clouded leopards.

Native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, pygmy hippos are an elusive, nocturnal species rarely seen in the wild.

The tropical forest ecosystem is home to nearly half of Africa's mammal species, including the pygmy hippopotamus, Liberian mongoose and West Africa's largest forest elephant population.