Sentences with phrase «as alarm call»

Kimberly Bostwick, an evolutionary ornithologist at Cornell University, says that about half of all pigeon and related dove species have a similarly modified feather:» [These wing whistles] are probably widespread across doves as an alarm call.»

We are using a different kind of deterrent — trying to stop birds from hearing one another by playing a noise that is at the same pitch as the alarm calls or predator noises they are listening out for,» said Professor Swaddle, who is also Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the US.

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But it's not just the peanut gallery raising the alarm — drug makers are also shifting their strategies, as evidenced by Novartis chief Joe Jimenez's statements this morning during an earnings conference call with reporters.

There is no delay for caressing words of prayerful invocation; rude as a wakening alarm, we call for God to get moving.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Evangelicals further to the right, such as Brown, view that trend as alarming evidence of an extreme «laxist tendency,» and thus they call for the purification described above.

But even as he sounded the alarm, it remained to be seen whether his call to action would actually reverse the subway's decline and change the daily experience of frustrated riders.

George Osborne warns entrepreneurs would be driven abroad as Tory alarm grows over Nick Clegg's calls for greater fairness

The Mahoney - Miner plan, as it was called, set off alarms among some suburban legislators, who feared constituents in some towns would pay higher taxes.

In the latest study, the team recorded the alarm calls as three similar - sized women wearing blue, yellow or green T - shirts walked past the prairie dogs 99 times.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, conducted research on wild bonobos and found that in this species individuals produce a call type, known as the «peep», across a range of positive, negative and neutral situations, such as during feeding, travel, rest, aggression, alarm, nesting and grooming.

But the virus has also been linked to an autoimmune disease that can cause paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome as well as an alarming surge in a birth defect called microcephaly in Brazil.

A Tufted Titmouse visits a feeding platform as part of an experiment on how traffic noise affects birds» responses to alarm calls.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows that traffic noise makes birds less responsive to alarm calls that would otherwise alert them to dangers such as predators.

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».

She adds that it was «clear to me» that the male was engaging in caretaking of his dying partner, although she adds that some of his behaviors — such as emitting alarm calls and trying to mate with her — might have been signs of stress rather than compassion.

Such objects are called X-Ray novas and act as their own alarm clocks.

As Templeton alternated predators, he realized the chickadees were changing their alarm calls.

Headshaking can occur in more general contexts, such as when an elephant is agitated [27], but in these alarm call contexts headshaking appears to be a specific response to bees, as the behavior was observed only in response to bee sounds and bee alarm calls, not in response to any other original stimulus or vocalization playback (Fig. 2; [23]-RRB-.

As noted above, formant frequency and dominant frequency locations are common acoustic features that differentiate alarm calls in mammals -LRB-[2], [4], [7], [10], present study).

The bark of a dog becomes an alarm call, just as a vague flicker in the middle distance could be the scope of the assassin's rifle glinting in the sun.

There's also a ticking - clock wrinkle, about which the film frequently forgets, as the burglars have 90 minutes to find the money before police are called, having disabled the alarm on their way in.

In some older schools, the fire alarm may be as old as the building itself and may have a variety of different detectors and call points from different manufacturers (due to being replaced over the years).

Monitored fire and security alarms provide increased protection — the integrated systems were provided using Honeywell Security products, including supplementary services such as induction loops and WC emergency call systems.

The bSafe app helps provide some security by putting virtual eyes on you as you walk home through live GSP tracking (a function called «Follow Me»), featuring an SOS alarm, automatic video and audio recordings that can be instantly sent to other mobiles.

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With the navigation option, comes the interface Mitsubishi calls the Multi-Communication System, which allows a wide range of vehicle systems to be configured or reset, such as alarm beeping behavior, trip computer functions, a lap timer, calendar, and maintenance reminders.

Other options on our Dakota included fog lamps ($ 120), security alarm ($ 120), and a so - called power overhead convenience group ($ 755), which added such amenities as keyless entry, automatic day / night mirror and an overhead console.

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The Minagi was concocted as a preview version of the next CX model so the fact that the production model is called the CX - 5 shouldn't be too alarming to Mazda fans.

We continue to be fans of the arrow icon in the bottom system bar, which calls up helpful Mini Apps such as Calculator, Alarms, Email and Task Manager that open above the currently opened app.

The device is like a smaller version of the Echo Show — Amazon's first Echo device with a touchscreen — with a 2.5 - inch screen that allows it to double as an alarm clock or a nursery camera, all while still being able to make video calls through the mini screen.

If you take to your practice's Facebook account and share the percentages of dogs and cats that get heartworms annually, the numbers might be interesting or even alarming, but are they going to serve as a call to action?

Hearing Dogs Hearing Dogs assist deaf or hearing impaired individuals by alerting them to a variety of household sounds such as a door knock or doorbell, alarm clock, oven buzzer, telephone, baby cry, name call or smoke alarm.

The authors concluded that while the bark may serve as an alarm or a warning, many times it seems to serve no communication purpose at all — except perhaps to direct attention to body language that solicits play, challenge, or other social activity as a sort of «yoo - hoo, I'm over here and I'm play - bowing» call.

The calls of soaring sea birds will be your alarm clock as they dive for fish off the docks.

Unfortunately, we do have to display a notice about the fire alarm charges, as the Qld Fire Department do charge us for false alarm call - outs.

However we had to borrow an alarm clock as there was no system of early call; the dinner menu was restricted with several items unavailable.

Just ask when you arrive or call the front desk as your alarm goes off in the morning if you feel as though a snooze just won't be enough.

The difficulty of the monsters you'll encounter spikes pretty dramatically as you wander the game's dungeons, and one wrong step can spell disaster for your party, as enemies seemingly call in reinforcements endlessly, and your attacks can whiff through your foes at an alarming rate which can make the game's challenge seem pretty lopsided at times.

To improve their results, they practice «pishing,» which involves imitating certain bird calls (mainly those of predators such as the Scops owl in the American East) to trigger reactions among smaller birds, who will give their alarm call and start to move, making them easier to spot.

Considering there were 500 papers supporting a skeptical position on global warming alarm published in scientific journals during 2016, perhaps the publication of wake - up - call, borderline - iconoclastic scientific papers such as this will become more and more commonplace in the near future.

In the previous two posts (first, second) we have looked at the climate alarmist's «steel greenhouse» which they mathematically solve in such a way as to lead to what they think is an alarming behaviour about temperature, which they call... Continue reading →

Thus we get a proliferation of alarm calls about all sorts of attitudes, behaviours and hazards but those pundits are as blind to many of the relevant signs as we were before the rise of the Nazis.

During the decades of the 1960s through the 1990s, the internationalists muted their calls for world government, preferring fuzzier labels, such as «international law,» «the rule of law,» and «interdependence» to avoid generating the popular alarm that a transparent attempt to subject U.S. citizens to UN rule would engender.

We risk belaboring those obvious points because not a single reporter or commentator in the so - called mainstream media, as far as we can tell, has seen fit to remark on, let alone express alarm over, this stupendous grab for global, despotic power.

The Amazon rainforest — soon to be called The Artist Formerly Known as the Amazon Rainforest, and then just some weird little symbol — appears to be undergoing a second year of drought, and that has researchers seriously alarmed.

My check with the Barr assoc yesterday revealed the «reasons» the Bar took what I view as an alarming action — the call for his resignation — on the rather specious grounds of some possible disrespect for the Court.

And your claim may be denied if you don't have fire or smoke alarms or if you fail to take critical steps, such as calling the fire department.

In September, the company announced a series of new products, including a new Amazon Echo, an Amazon Echo Plus, a brand new device called the Echo Connect, an alarm clock - like device called as the Echo Spot, and Echo buttons geared towards gamers that will sell for $ 20 a pair.