Sentences with phrase «animals living»

The highest levels were found in animals living in the reservoir.

For animals living in such small groups, it is especially important to accurately identify other members of their species.

To this end, they collected all of the leaves from an area of ground measuring one square metre in 80 forests in Germany and on Sumatra (Indonesia) in order to examine the animals living there: primarily insects, spiders and snails; a total of over 12,000 individuals from almost 1,200 species.

When bacteria from these «clockless» mice were transplanted into healthy animals living in normal light - dark conditions, the microbes began to show normal rhythms within a week.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

The destabilized bond would make apes» melanopsin less photosensitive and might be important for these animals living under brighter light environment.

Animals living on the abyssal plains, miles below the ocean surface, don't usually get much to eat.

They have already seen changes in the numbers and types of deep - sea animals living at Station M that appear to result from the feasts of 2011 and 2012.

As the book points out: «Plants and animals living in crowded conditions, as on reefs and in rainforests, often produce poisons to fight off competitors,» and these poisons can be turned to good pharmacological use.

«Now we finally have information about what kinds of animals were present in areas farther to the south, and their similarities and differences to the animals living near the equator.»

For over 20 years, Smith and his fellow researchers have studied animals living on the abyssal plain at Station M — a deep - sea research site about 220 kilometers (140 miles) off the Central California coast.

From the video, Lissette and her fellow researchers from the NOC and the Universities of Bristol, Essex and Newfoundland identified over 30 000 animals living on the surface of the Annan Seamount in the Equatorial - Atlantic, including spectacular cold - water coral colonies.

Understanding where they reside is important, because the animals living inside the Lomami National Park are protected, as it is illegal to hunt.»

Animals living at a comfortable 30 °C received IL - 4.

«Animals living the years surrounding the Permian - Triassic extinction help us see how life on earth reacted to that event,» says Rieppel.

Animals living here exploit ephemeral features such as sand kicked up by crabs for protection.

But Thalmann doubts that the study is the final word on where dogs were tamed, because the DNA comes only from animals living today.

Our work shows how animals living in a small geographic area can modify their appearance over time to match their respective environment.»

As for the animals living in the water below — well, it is hard to know their story.

«The latest unconfirmed sighting of the baiji was April 27, 2006, which is a good reason to suppose that there are likely a few animals living somewhere in the river but hard to find,» Ding says.

By describing the structure of these webs, scientists can predict how plants and animals living in an ecosystem will respond to change.

Cooperative breeding, when adults in a group team up to care for offspring, is not a survival strategy for animals living in extreme environments.

A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

Thanks to evolution, the animals living there have adapted to these conditions and will have little chance to adjust when the combination of warming and lower oxygen levels hits.

In fact, the majority of kelp production is exported out of the forest rather than consumed by animals living there.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

On 22 November, the census updated its record of animals living between the depths of 200 metres and 5000 metres, bringing the number of known marine species living in darkness to 17,650.

Some, like menacing horns, have obvious advantages for animals living in the wild.

«Up to now, such long - lasting locomotive activity had been reported only for animals living in the sea,» says Felix Liechti of the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach.

«Animals living in these fragments include the jaguar (Panthera onca), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), tapir (Tapirus terrestris) and white - lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairs.

«There have been reports of overcrowding, animals living in their own waste and, quite frankly, otherwise healthy animals being put down because they are given a strategy as to how we deal with animal control.»

More than 100 neglected animals living in horrific conditions on an upstate ranch have been rescued, police said.

In additiona, it covers animals used for experimentation (about 12 million per year) and animals living in zoos.

Once you have the all clear to enter the water be aware of the different animals living at the beach.

Both silent and sanitary, this colorful pop - out book is machine - washable and features a story of peek - a-boo animals living in a forest.

A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea is about the food chain of the water dwelling animals living in the sea.

However, it is sheds full of thousands of animals living with their own excrement that are the real source of a massive public health threat — those sheds are «food for flu» as evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace states.

Bunch of animals living in Iran.

How do animals live and communicate?

In one public TV program, [the activists] stated that they would rather see animals live than save one human life...

They teach that horses and other animals lived in north and central America before the conquistadors.

Why not defend a «wooden» ship that took 125 years to build and that the animals that were on it were all that was need for the animal life we see today?

The moral law strictly limits our dominion over animal life.

Think of how many people, in light of evolving scientific evidence, have become mindful eaters, more careful shoppers, donors to the cause of animal rescue, or even vegetarians and vegans, all out of newfound respect for animal life.

• For biologists, 1995 was a banner year, marked by the first discovery in decades of a whole new kind of animal life.

Regarding Meyer's 2013 Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, paleontologist Donald Prothero asserts that Meyer, not a paleontologist nor a molecular biologist, does not understand these scientific disciplines, therefore he misinterprets, distorts and confuses the data, all for the purpose of promoting the «God of the gaps» argument.

You have decided that plant life is secondary to animal life.

The Tree pf Life is a metaphor for animal life and the innocence of a sheltered early childhood, a state of living by instinct rather than moral decision making.

A law of «seeking for its proper good» belongs to everything God has made, including the order of animal life before there was Man.