Sentences with phrase «animal and bird species»

You are bound to spot endemic animal and bird species like iguanas, parakeets and crocodiles.

The Osa Peninsula is a secluded nature wonderland, playing home to many of the country's rare and endangered animal and bird species, including squirrel monkeys, jaguars, and other forest cats.

Visit Village Wa Tu Tu, a recreation of an African Village, and journey to «Eagle Canyon», which features streams, bobcats, mountain lions, magnificent golden eagles, Mexican wolves, and many other animal and bird species.

There are hundreds of animal and bird species here as well as a prospering jungle that extends out behind our little town for as far and the eyes can see.

Not exact matches

God could manage to keep all «his» trillions of species of animals, birds, fish and insects and bacteria alive, thriving and healthy for obviously the last 6,000 years, and more likely many millions of years before that.

Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in many plants, some invertebrate animal species (including nematodes, water fleas, some scorpions, aphids, some bees, some Phasmida and parasitic wasps) and a few vertebrates (such as some fish, amphibians, reptiles and very rarely birds.

We had mammal and bird identification books, and I kept a list of what we saw — in all, 16 species of animals and 23 species of birds.

This came just days after Animals Australia and CADs were forced to approach the Vic Supreme Court to block shooters from killing birds on a major Victorian wetland where threatened species were seeking refuge.

Consisting of 9000 acres, the Reserve protects unique ecosystems and vernal pools, as well as more than 200 species of native birds and 49 endangered, threatened or rare animal and plant species.

The macaw is just one of many magnificent animal species at risk from habitat destruction, including the jaguar, the night monkey, and the resplendent quetzal, Guatemala's national bird.

A contingent of residents who live near the site expressed their outrage at Village Hall last month, voicing concerns that the controlled burns that are part of the plan would disrupt the habitat that is currently home to myriad bird and animal species.

More than 50 residents said the plan puts at risk a piece of land inhabited by myriad bird and animal species that they believe have thrived until now without outside interference.

With this package you can see 32,000 aquatic animals — 1,500 species of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds and mammals from waters around the world — during your stay at the Hilton Chicago.

Nutrition Every day we prepare balanced meals for 32,000 animals, catering to the tastes and nutritional needs of 1,500 species of invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Of the species existing within this region, the authors anticipate that nearly 50 percent of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and other organisms found nowhere else on earth will become threatened according to the criteria of the Red List, an inventory of imperiled animals and plants maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Exotic plantations can not serve as habitats for indigenous birds and animals, and «monocultures have limited value in conserving endangered species,» the authors point out in the paper.

Males of many animal species compete for mates, either by producing showy ornaments to attract females, such as the plumes and bright colours of male Birds of Paradise, or, like stags and elephant seals, by fighting with other males for access to mates.

One theory taking flight says only vocal - learning animals can sync up with musical rhythms, and those species make up an exclusive club: humans, some birds, elephants, whales, and dolphins.

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

The area is rich with animal skeletons, and they estimate there are at least 13 different species of dinosaur present based on teeth and other remains, plus birds, small mammals and some fish.

Norway's Svalbard archipelago hosts some 150 bird species, including the Arctic tern, which makes the longest migration of any animal (nearly 45,000 miles to the Antarctic and back).

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

Physiological factors, such as a rapid growth and maturation rate, might explain how this line of bird was able to survive the Cretaceous - Paleogene mass extinction event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago and eliminated approximately three - quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth.

A survey suggests that 210 bird species are more threatened than we knew and it could be true of other animals, too

Possingham recently analyzed endangered animals and plants in New Zealand and found that for the same budget required to save a single bird species there, the North Island brown kiwi, six other threatened species could be protected.

More than 180 species of animals have been documented to ingest plastic debris, including birds, fish, turtles and marine mammals, according to the report.

The camouflage and concealment strategies of various animal species have been widely studied, but scientists from Exeter and Cambridge universities have discovered that individual wild birds adjust their choices of where to nest based on their specific patterns and colours.

The Birds have however interested me much more than the insects, they are proportionally much more numerous, and throw great light on the laws of Geographical distribution of Animals in the East... As an instance I may mention the Cockatoos, a group of birds confined to Australia & the Moluccas, but quite unknown in Java Borneo Sumatra & Malacca... Many other species illustrate the same Birds have however interested me much more than the insects, they are proportionally much more numerous, and throw great light on the laws of Geographical distribution of Animals in the East... As an instance I may mention the Cockatoos, a group of birds confined to Australia & the Moluccas, but quite unknown in Java Borneo Sumatra & Malacca... Many other species illustrate the same birds confined to Australia & the Moluccas, but quite unknown in Java Borneo Sumatra & Malacca... Many other species illustrate the same fact.

Many migration studies are done in short - lived species like songbirds, or by comparing a young bird to an older bird, said UMD biologist Thomas Mueller, an expert on animal migration and the study's lead scientist.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.Nspecies that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.NSpecies of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

At least twenty - five plants and animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.

Ironmonger lists 130 other safari parks, aquaria, bird gardens and so on, as well as the 31 described at length; he has sections on the different animal groups kept in zoos and — extremely useful — a chart showing where all of the 350 different mammalian species and subspecies in British zoos are to be found.

More than 7,000 plant and animal species make their homes here, and more than half of the bird species found on the entire continent inhabit the Sky Islands.

«As soon as you're missing a single species in your data matrix, you may be missing a key function that is only represented by that species,» says Jetz, who has studied functional traits in plants and vertebrate animals, particularly birds.

He said animals that can migrate — like whales and birds — are more likely to adapt, while species bound to a particular environment, or food source, will face greater challenges.

The origins for reptiles contrast with other famous Australian animal groups including marsupials and birds, which include many more species descended from ancestors that lived on Gondwana, a super continent that included Australia, Antarctica, South America, Africa and Madagascar.

They also recovered DNA from three types of ground - dwelling birds and one species of bat - there are only a few previous and somewhat anecdotal reports of those animals being targeted by Haemadipsa leeches.

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.

Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

«Use of objects as hunting lures is very rare among animals, being known to date only in captive capuchin monkeys, a few bird species and one insect,» the authors wrote.

With colorful names like the evening fieldslug, cinnamon juga, Chelan mountainsnail and masked duskysnail, these species recycle nutrients, filter water and provide important prey for birds, amphibians and other animals.

In the Antarctic, tiny crustaceans called krill sustain the largest animal that has ever existed — the blue whale — as well as many other fish, bird, and mammal species.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzed the vocal sequences of seven different species of birds and mammals and found that the vocal sequences produced by the animals appear to be generated by complex statistical processes, more akin to human language.

In both externally fertilizing species such as salmon and internally fertilizing animals such as birds, males with the fastest sperm sire the most young.

Pet stores can attest to this diminishing supply, and the same can be said for several species of fish, birds and small animals.

Today there are ordinances being debated to restrict the sale of puppies, kittens, small animals, birds, reptiles and several species of fish.

The beauty of the animals in Africa is exquisite; numerous species of birds in every color of the rainbow, monkeys swinging from trees with their babies clinging to their backs, giraffes grazing in open fields, sprinting cheetahs, elephants playing in the water and so much more wildlife fill Africa.

Dr. Palm has a great deal of experience with a wide variety of exotic animal species, including rabbits, bird and reptiles

While getting a Ph.D., her interest shifted from academic to applied animal behavior, as she studied first laboratory birds, then companion parrots and then wild exotic bird species at the Bronx Zoo.