Sentences with phrase «animals on remote islands»

We have all probably heard of animals on remote islands that have no fear of humans or predators.

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«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

WHILE Russia is encouraging people to settIe on the remote and foggy Kuril Islands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takeIslands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takeislands before a development boom takes hold.

These antics fuelled his famous idea that animals become tame when they live on remote, predator - free islands.

But unlike in the mainland U.S., most people in Puerto Rico choose to abandon their dogs on beaches or in remote locations rather than surrender them to one of the island's eight open - intake animal shelters, where euthanasia rates top a staggering 95 percent.

Because of their isolation and remote nature, the Channel Islands support fewer native animal species than similar habitats on the mainland.

A wild menagerie of remarkable animals thrives on these remote islands, scattered nearly 700 miles (1000 km) off the coast of Ecuador.

I focus on wild marine animals, the California kelp forest, remote eastern Pacific islands, National Parks of the American West, waves, the night sky, and aerial panoramas.

I am a natural history photographer focusing on wild marine animals, the California kelp forest, inhabitants of remote islands, National Parks of the American West, California landscapes and San Diego.