Sentences with phrase «animal population there»

The stray animal population there was multiplied by the disaster when thousands of pet owners became homeless, leaving their beloved animals with no food or shelter.

Not exact matches

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.

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..

All the theory of evolution says is that life forms adapt to changes in the environment over time; that there are global changes in the gene pool of a given population of animals over time.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

There are many animal species that have a percentage of their population that is EXCLUSIVELY attracted to the same gender and NEVER in their lifetime mate with the opposite gender.

There is ample evidence that the combination of stockmen and federal poisoners has already succeeded in eliminating certain animal populations and endangering others.

If you want to study a particular animal, they say, there's probably some other population elsewhere.

Sought after for their horns, white rhinos saw their population fall to 100 animals in South Africa by 1910, and only 2,410 black rhinos remained there in 1995.

There is a twist in this peacock's tail though — this effect only happens when the animal populations are large.

(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.)

Along with the dozen or so animals to be released next week along the Aragón, Põdra and his colleagues plan to free another seven or eight animals, also bred in captivity, along the river Leizarán, some 140 kilometers to the northwest, to give a small existing population there a boost.

«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.

In the case of a disease like heartworm, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and infects both wild animal populations and companion animals, there is some natural variation in both drug coverage and mixing.

«We determined there were enough animals that there was a low to very low risk of extinction, and in fact, most developments suggest an increasing population,» Dewar said.

Animals as large as elephants have been moved from one national park to another in South Africa in order to manage the growing populations there, he says.

There may have been a very dramatic population crash when this disease swept through, but some animals were hanging on.

This is more difficult where there are fewer animals in a population.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

In 1960 there were 22 captive snow leopards in Europe and North America but by 1976 the population had increased to 167, many of them wild caught animals.

There are also some animal species — such as Tasmanian devils and domestic dogs — that are known to have transmissible cancer cells circulating within their populations.

A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better way to diversify your microbial ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals as often as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.

There is another problem: animal and bird populations were much greater then than they are now, so that keeping these creatures out of gardens and fields would have been a full - time job.

If we take populations that consume commercially produced animal proteins, which have been produced with the use of artificial hormones (BGH), antibiotics, and fed GMO feed, then of course, there will be higher cancer rates.

There are many factors involved in this seeming decline in health — increases in population, crowding, living in close proximity with animals and the resultant transmission of diseases, but certainly the change in diet was a major factor.

Honey, we're the most long lived land dwelling animal out there excluding tortoises and our population has overtaken the planet!

re: ``... and / or those who use sustainable farming methods...» Since there is no way to farm animals in a sustainable way for the current human population (watch the movie Cowspiracy to understand why), that idea goes out the window too.

Where there's obesity in large amounts of the population, there's a very good chance you'll find misguided and destructive eating habits such as low - fat diets along with too much processed, CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) meat and not enough vegetables and healthy sources of fat.

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes).

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

«The more animals that are spayed or neutered, the fewer younger animals there are in the population so eventually, we're able to get ahead.»

I know a few years ago, there was a trap / spay / release program on the block and I was just wondering earlier today if it was still being done... it's the smartest way to keep the feral population under control while still remaining humane to the animals.

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.

Kate Hurley, DVM, MPVM May 2014 Dr. Kate Hurley will discuss the elements of Capacity for Care in the context of the Five Freedoms and the ASV Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters; describe in detail the steps for calculating required physical and staff capacity for care; and provide a variety of practical, real - life strategies to make sure there is a good match between the actual daily population and the required Capacity for Care.

For decades, animal control policy has wasted millions of dollars catching and killing outdoor cats, but populations of cats are still there, just as they always have been.

There is unfortunately an increase in sarcoptic mange in the urban coyote populations which has caused these normally noctural animals to become more active during the day.

When you see the number of animals out there that don't have homes and are having trouble finding homes, it is important to me to do whatever I can to reduce that population,» says Dr. Vicki L. Rhyne, DVM, veterinarian at ChattaNeuter spay / neuter clinic.

Trap - neuter - return started in the early 1990s in the U.S., and there was a lot of hope in the animal welfare world that this process of identifying unowned cats, trapping them, spay / neutering them and returning them to their environment was the best way to stabilize cat population growth.

There are millions of unwanted dogs, puppies, kittens and cats euthanized in shelters each year and Saving Grace is committed to reducing the population of unwanted animals

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually fewer stray animals in large, free roaming dog populations than many people believe.

Re-homing animals out of communities, which is necessary when there is no population control, is a never ending cycle.

However, Manatee significantly curtails intake, Austin is overcrowded and giving away animals FREE, Austin sent out a plea for a puppy exposed to PARVO being put in the general population because the sick ward was full, and Manatee just announced they are doing the same — any animal in their facility who has been there OVER 90 DAYS IS FREE!

Thinking there had to be a better way for a community to address its homeless pet population, she founded LifeLine Animal Project and implemented a long - term strategy to redefine metro Atlanta's practices and philosophies regarding caring for animal compaAnimal Project and implemented a long - term strategy to redefine metro Atlanta's practices and philosophies regarding caring for animal compaanimal companions.

However, there always is going to be that remaining segment of the population that considers our companion animals to be just the family dog or cat, as well as those consumers without the resources to pay for better foods.

HuffPost: There's still a segment of the population who thinks folks who can't afford to take care of their animals shouldn't have animals.

When he started, he inherited an unfathomable euthanasia rate — every three days there were animals put down and the euthanasia rate compared to the shelter population was way too high.

It will still take several years to drastically reduce animal over ‐ population in the operating area, but after four years there is already a recognizable impact.

When you see the number of animals out there that don't have homes and are having trouble finding homes, it is important to me to do whatever I can to reduce that population,» says...

But there is a whole segment of the population living on the edge of poverty who love their companion animals dearly just do not have the money to properly care for costly aging pets.