Sentences with phrase «about animal population»

This is one of those (rare) cases in which we simply didn't know that much about the animal population in the region, and it turned out to be better than expected.

The larger problem is pets in the hands of those having a casual concern about animal population.

The local government personnel benefit by extending more control over our lives, enriching the public treasury with fees, tags and fines, and giving the appearance that local government is doing something about animal populations, disease and risks to the public.

Not exact matches

The amount of information now available about the population ecology of kangaroos and their abundance has shifted the focus of opposition by animal rights groups and some conservation groups instead upon animal welfare issues (see Chapter 9).

Those concerned about the fate of Fraser Island dingoes — including researcher Dr Luke Leung from Queensland University — now fear the population has been reduced to around 100 animals and their genetic viability over the long term is being compromised.

The campaign aims to help the endangered animals in their homeland, educate the public about the damage ivory consumption does to elephant populations and secure a moratorium on ivory trading in the U.S., the world's second largest importer of ivory.

In a letter to city Parks Department and Animal Care and Control officials, Oddo seethed about the «exploding deer population approaching crisis proportions.»

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

LeVine says that the main problem is a lack of scientific knowledge about the baseline conditions in the region, in terms of everything from ocean currents to animal populations.

«Understanding animals» movement patterns and the encounters they bring about is a key step in characterizing a population's mating system and essential for determining how behavior both facilitates and is subject to sexual selection,» explained Kamath, a postdoctoral scholar in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

A second population of 30 animals was recently established at the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 90 miles north.

It may one day be possible to address questions about how and why tool use arises in animal populations, and about the extent to which that kind of behaviour is — or isn't — uniquely human, he adds.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

From 1989 to 1993, we were able to place radio collars on three to five pandas each year, allowing us to track a population of about 20 animals on a daily basis.

«Reindeer populations are declining all over the world, in some places catastrophically; in Taimyr, there has been an about 40 percent drop since 2000 and the herd is now at 600,000 animals,» said Andrey Petrov, an associate professor at the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls.

Most states and about half of high - population cities and counties had organizational infrastructure for managing animals in a disaster, such as a State or County Animal Response Team.

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The nine animals removed for reintroduction represented about 20 percent of the study area's fisher population.

To make their new study, the team — including scientists from University of Oxford, University of Vermont, Harvard University, Aarhus University in Denmark, Princeton University, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and Purdue University — used these findings and other existing data about historic and current animal populations.

And the loss of genetic diversity in wild axolotls — owing to their diminishing population — means that scientists lose out on learning all they can about the animal's biology.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

Captive breeding programs have famously saved black - footed ferrets and California condors, whose populations had both dwindled to about 20 animals.

Saiga antelope populations plummeted due to poaching by over 95 percent in just 20 years — from nearly 2 million to only about 50,000 animals — but with CMS support and conservation actions by governments and conservation organizations on the ground, the population has begun to rebound and has now reached over 200,000 animals.

The increase in animals killed — at least 1500 pantropical spotted dolphins, 159 spinner dolphins, and 15 bottlenose dolphins in 2013 — raises concerns about these small and genetically unique island populations and the animals» welfare, the scientists say.

Today only 1,300 - 1,400 of the animals exist in the wild, and their populations have declined about four percent annually in recent years.

While populations of wild animals have halved, only about 1 to 2 per cent of species have been lost so far — at least in well - studied groups such as mammals and birds.

Though it's been known that big cats can be infected with the virus since the 1980s, it wasn't considered a threat to such species until 1994, when the virus swept through the Serengeti lion population, killing 1,000 animals, about 30 percent of the population.

Because whaling reduced the southern population to about 200 animals, the trait of lightness could spread quickly as the population recovers now that whaling has stopped.

«What's particularly noteworthy about this work is we were able to present an integrative link from genetics, cell - and animal - based experiments, all the way up to clinical outcomes in large human population,» Liu said.

The method is unlikely to provide information about an animal's population, but leeches should help to pin down its range.

While we all hope and work towards keeping the snow leopard alive in the wild zoo populations also have their role in helping to educate the public about conservation of this and other endangered animals.

Cat - induced allergies affect about 20 percent of the U.S. population, according to studies, and is caused by a protein found in the animals» saliva and dander (dead skin cells.)

In the general population, foods that increase risk of atherosclerosis and ischemic stroke (including saturated fat and animal protein) are linked to lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke (about 11 % of all strokes, but usually more severe).

In contrast, Gillespie explains, the Jewish population of Israel has, probably unwittingly through the need to eat only kosher food with its significant restrictions on animal products, the world's highest concentration of polyunsaturated fats in their diet (In 1996, 12 % of energy consumed compared with about 5 % in Australia at that time.)

NatureMapping (NM) uses student data to help create a national biodiversity database, which offers scientists a great tool to learn about animal movement, behavior, and population changes.

Students learn about plant and animal reproduction, inheritance, and life cycles by devising a plan to save the bee population.

Writing this Letter from the Editor has me reflecting on the rewarding experience it has been so far, from working with the wonderful writers of «TulsaPets» and meeting selfless people who champion for animal causes (especially the homeless pet population), to learning about some amazing local animals.

However, only time will tell what truly comes of the partnership, and TulsaPets Magazine will be covering the progress and updating all of you, the readers, who are concerned about the fate of Tulsa's homeless animal population.

We truly care about what is best for your pet, and have taken steps to best ensure his / her health, as well as the health of the animal and human populations we live amongst.

Only about 15 - 20 % of the population adopts their pets from an animal shelter.

However, it should be noted that population ethics is difficult even when applied to humans who can actually express a preference between their current circumstances and never having been born, and there is necessarily more uncertainty with regard to the preferences of animals who can not communicate about abstract topics.

Cultural reluctance to euthanize even severely suffering animals, intertwined with the Buddhist faith of about a third of the Taiwan population, led in the 1980s and 1990s to some government shelters simply allowing impounded dogs to cannibalize each other or starve to death.

The dominant share of this segment can be attributed to the increasing porcine population, growing awareness about animal vaccination, and outbreaks of porcine diseases such as PRRS (Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome), swine influenza, and Auzeszkys Disease (AD).

One study found that nuisance to animal control about cats decreased after a TNR program was implemented — even though the human population increased.

Certainly the abandoned pet population is a huge problem but the longterm health of the animal needs to be factored in to the decision about when to spay and neuter.

That will bring the total cost to run the clinic to about $ 140,000 - a figure commissioners said was reasonable to keep animal populations under control and still not take business away from private veterinarians.

Christiansen wrote that the dog population has increased from 30 million animals in 1970 to 52 million animals in 1996 but the number euthanized has declined substantially to about 2.5 million animals, a decline he credited to massive education about pet sterilization.

As fate would have it, she ran into OAS Director Megan Webb just after having read the story, and, in talking about the animals at the shelter, Megan told her about our small - dog population and how so many of the Chihuahua mixes look similar.

«By reaching a subset of the population uncertain about where they'll obtain their next dog or cat and convincing them that an animal shelter is the best source, we can end the euthanasia of homeless dogs and cats in this country,» said Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.

The ongoing epidemic of Ebola in West Africa has raised several questions about how the disease affects the animal population, and in particular, the risk to household pets.