Sentences with phrase «animals like birds»

Owners with talkative animals like birds will also have to consider location in their home search, especially if considering condo or apartment living.

Edward Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UI, explains the findings help bolster the growing recognition amongst scientists that animals like birds, reptiles, and fish are capable of high - level, abstract decision - making.

Miniature schnauzers are also a little bit protective, but they are actually more of a hunting type, they love to chase small animals like birds and mice, even trying to play with them!

In addition to cats and dogs, we also treat animals like birds, reptiles, and pocket pets like hamsters and guinea pigs.

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

Although these shifts might sound like small beans for mobile animals like birds, which can pick their environment with relative precision, for the very small, the very large and the very rooted, such a pace might be impossible.

A new study shows that flocks of different sizes behave differently, and could help explain how animals like birds and fish coordinate their movements.

Adding to the intrigue is that opisthotonos is usually seen in warm - blooded animals like birds and mammals but not reptiles.

Much like social insects, such as honey bees and wasps and social animals like birds and mammals who use alarm calls, when under predation, they are capable of generating a coordinated attack».

Not exact matches

Mooshwalks are socks with ears and faces, socks that have names, backstories and personalities, socks that don't look like any particular animal, but are a hybrid of dogs and cats, birds and pigs.

Also, evolutionary theory does state animals sharing a certain characteristic can possess a similarity without sharing an immediate common ancestor like a bird and bat wing.

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four - footed animals and creeping things.

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four - footed animals and creeping things.

its like when my city made a law saying all animals need to be on a leash, and i called the cops on every human, squirrel, and bird i seen.

Charles Hartshorne has devoted much trained attention to bird song and argues that song requires «something like an aesthetic sense in the animal,» though it may be more a matter of aesthetic feeling rather than aesthetic thought (BS 2, 12).

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE; and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four - footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

Acts 11:4 - 18: «But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, «I WAS IN THE CITY OF JOPPA PRAYING; AND IN A TRANCE I SAW A VISION, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four - footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air.

1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

Gay people don't worship «images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles» at all.

It is a tool that fills (for some) a psychological void when they just can't face the fact that we are biological specimens, just like all the protozoa, insects, birds, animals, fishes, reptiles and bacteria on this Earth and need to somehow feel superior or connected to some «deity.»

Still, one did not purchase very much food for domestic animals because what they did for us was to feed themselves by doing what cats and dogs did, like stalking birds and chasing rabbits.

Suppose he gave Moses a vision or dream about creation to write down, it would be like a slide show, the first frame darkness, then light, water, land, plants, the sun, moon, stars, fish, birds, animals, people.

So like a gardener, God makes trees grow in the garden (v9), God brings water to the trees by constructing rivers (V10 - 14), and God brings in animals / birds into the garden to have Man name them.

Many humidifiers marketed for babies come shaped as cute animals like pigs, birds, and dogs.

Even before AZA included the 2 - foot - tall penguins that bray like a donkey in its SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) program, which is supported by Shedd Aquarium and 231 other AZA - member organizations, we were working side by side with South African conservationists to keep these birds afloat.

Would any of the other animals, like the squirrels or birds, be able to help?

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

These and other finds — from the bones of various animals and birds to numerous worked and unworked deer antlers — suggest that the Cetamura well, like other water sources in antiquity, was regarded as sacred.

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.

The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant - like cognitive powers — Clark's woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nut stashes, for example — but they say these brilliant birds are simply well adapted, and don't suffer other cognitive impairments typical in human autistic savants.

He's like «Mr. Subfossil Bird Bones» (and a lot of other subfossil animals, but especially birds — and especially island birds).

«If it had a physiology like modern animals we would then say that this animal was warm - blooded like a bird or mammal,» says Showers.

Animals that travel between multiple destinations and return to a home base — like bees, birds, primates and humans — face a predicament known to mathematicians as the Travelling Salesman Problem.

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.

Fossil bones don't clearly show whether modern - type birds fluttered about during the Cretaceous, but the treads in Shandong do, painting an improbable scene: Animals much like today's roadrunners were in fact scampering beside two - legged, plant - eating dinosaurs.

Now we're thinking of them more like birds, animals that can be caring parents.»

While animals like beavers and birds are famous for their nest - building, the great apes — including chimpanzees — are the only primates to build such structures.

Swarms of ants can easily overwhelm young birds in ground nests and small animals like mice, Inkley said.

Birds also lack active CMAH genes, implying that consuming animals like chicken, turkey, and geese is not associated with the harmful side effects.

This hints that the animal begged for food from its parents, like baby birds today, and that even early dinosaurs cared for their young — but not everyone is convinced.

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.

Seeley divided dinosaurs into «bird - hipped» animals, like the herbivorous Stegosaurus, and «reptile - hipped» ones, including carnivores like T. rex and long - necked herbivores like Apatosaurus.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Unmasking the Zorro of the avian world, The worm that looks like a tree, The bird that cares for its rival's chicks, Itsy bitsy teeny weeny chameleons, Don't bite — how the zebra got its stripes, The only males with more brain than females, How a blurry - eyed spider pounces on target, Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own, Unique life form is half plant, half animal, Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip, My brain's so big it spills into my legs, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, To kill a mockingbird?

They will also eat smaller birds, other bird's eggs and small animals like rabbits, reptiles, amphibians and crabs.

If dinosaurs (or, as some evolutionists assert, reptiles) evolved into birds, thousands of types of animals should have been more birdlike than dinosaurs and yet more dinosaur - like than birds.

talon The curved toenail - like claw on the foot of a bird, lizard or other predatory animal that uses these claws to snag prey and tear into its tissues.

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).

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.