Sentences with phrase «animal population as»

Spay (female) and Neuter (male) of dogs and cats is a necessary requirement for both the effective control of the unwanted animal population as well providing benefits to animal health.

We look at our animal population as an extension of the family and we need to provide for them as well»

In almost all cases, spaying or neutering your pet really is the best choice - for you, for your pet, and for the animal population as a whole.

H.E.L.P. is committed to educating the community on improving the lives of pets, and reducing the stray and abandoned domestic animal population as well as to promote spay / neuter programs.

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Also, as each species is profiled, there are maps and symbols that further explain the animal's life and habitat, size, population, and conservation status.

The tallest land animal was officially classified as «vulnerable» after its population rapidly declined 40 percent in only 30 years worldwide.

The tallest land animal was officially classified as «vulnerable» after its population rapidly...

support the dispersal of plants and animals residing in refuge pools along the Great Darling Anabranch, enabling fish, such as Murray cod and golden perch, to disperse, and potentially reconnect with populations in the River Murray

This will mean that Commonwealth environmental water will be used to protect habitat such as permanent waterholes that support the survival of water dependent populations of native plants and animal life,» he said.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

The animals featured will represent some of the animals that are likely to experience an increase or decrease in population as a result of climate change.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

STATEN ISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten Island.

I along with millions of Americans are tired of these gays looking to be accepted by the main stream population of this great nation.This same sex marriage, don't ask don't tell and these civil wedding are totally disgraceful.I personally feel that these individuals are nothing more than diseased animals and being such, should be «Euthanized» as you would do to any diseased animal.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a...

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

The researchers also found that using physiological biomarkers, such as hormones from droppings, is an effective way of evaluating the impact of ecological and demographic factors on animal populations.

The search should include family and other contacts of infected people, plus healthcare workers and the general population, as well as animals, he says.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

She could then move on to bioluminescence as a tool for locating and mapping various populations of animals and observing how they overlap.

Idaho wants to control the burgeoning wolves because the animals, though ranked as an endangered species, may have begun to make a dent in the elk population within the Frank and also in some of the cattle herds outside.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

This in turn placed higher pressures on both the animal populations and the forest, as people drew more heavily upon the natural resources of the region to sustain themselves.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.

The results may extend to other animals as well, the researchers speculate, and may even explain why some populations of sperm whales have relatively few young.

The die - off, which has subsided after claiming as many as 20,000 victims, is another blow to the long - term prospects for the Caspian seal, a population of around 400,000 animals that is listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction.

Though some biologists recently have criticized the collection of specimens as potentially jeopardizing fragile populations of rare animals, Gardner said collecting expeditions to biologically unknown areas remain a critical part of understanding life on the planet.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

Dr Martin Stevens from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus said: «As far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgroundAs far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgroundas we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgrounds.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida's state animal recover have had limited success

As populations of sea lions and seals in northern habitats continue to decline, satellites are providing scientists with a better understanding of the animals» feeding patterns.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

This is «hunting that can satisfy the demand from the poorest in future generations as well as ensure the stability in the long - term of hunted animal populations,» Van Vliet says.

(Roughly, the more bison there are, the greater their genetic diversity and the longer it will take to find the common ancestor of two animals chosen at random — just as one would expect residents of a small English village to be more closely related than two people picked at random from the world population.)

The geologic record shows that the differences in ice cover, sea level and precipitation as well as in plant and animal populations were quite dramatic between the ice ages and the warm interglacials.

Unlike many populations of animals that undergo genetic changes over numerous generations and improve their camouflage against the environment, sand fleas from the different beaches begin life as a planktonic larval stage and so are likely to come from the same gene pool.

The only examples of such sustainable hunting, however, are either among people who have almost no contact with other human beings, such as the indigenous Aché people in the forests of eastern Paraguay, or those who have already killed off local populations of slow - breeding animals as is evidenced in the bushmeat market in Takoradi, Ghana.

Scientists find themselves choosing between animals as explosions of some populations endanger others

«When squid populations change, it often impacts other animals such as albatross egg production or fisheries production.»

«While we use amphibians as an example in this article, the negative effects of collecting samples from endangered animal populations is a concern that applies across taxa and around the world.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

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.

If confirmed and extended to animals, the new findings could profoundly affect biomedicine as well as population genetics.

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

But as today's large animal populations become more in danger of extinction, the environment too is at risk.