Sentences with phrase «arboreal forests»

Reducing our gasoline consumption sounds like the best thing we can do to protect the Arboreal Forests of the northcountry.

«If arboreal forests are the lungs of the planet,» says Walker, «the Southern Ocean is its heart.»

Not exact matches

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have more than we realized: These arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.

Wohlleben makes an affable forest companion — a tree whisperer who interprets arboreal behavior for the likes of me.

This is excellent for our chameleons and other arboreals, as they enjoy being both up in the trees and above the reach of those possibly predatory simians that seem to wander through their forest every day.

A medium - sized arboreal snake, it ranges the subtropical rain forests of Vietnam.