Sentences with phrase «as big carnivores»
The researchers identified several criteria for choosing umbrella species — such as big carnivores, most long - lived, habitat specialists, and ones on the verge of extinction — and analyzed how many imperiled species might be saved by protecting the habitat of that type of umbrella species, compared to species saved by randomly picking a set of species to serve as the umbrella.
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Adam is a confirmed carnivore, but being essentially omnivorous is a big fan of vegetarian cooking as well.
Hunting and habitat loss are killing off big carnivores around the world, just as ecologists are discovering how important they are for keeping ecosystems in balance.
The result: On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.
Big dogs may have helped humans hunt dangerous carnivores, such as cave bears, hyenas and cave lions.
Longrich says cannibalism was probably common in predatory dinosaurs, just as modern large carnivores, including bears, komodo dragons and some big cats, often turn cannibal.
Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.
Populations of big carnivores such as brown bears, Eurasian lynx, grey wolves and wolverines are stable or increasing in a substantial part of Europe.