Sentences with phrase «as deer mice»

As people left their homes in Bodie and no one else moved in, the houses became havens for species that thrive in the void, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, and the red - shafted flicker, a kind of woodpecker that punches holes for its nests in the buildings.

Not exact matches

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

It also hunted larger mammals, such as mouse - deer (an artiodactyl).

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

Coyotes are overtaking the red fox, which feeds on small mammals such as mice, shrews and chipmunks, animals that, like deer, can play host to the Lyme - disease - carrying ticks

The red fox feeds on small mammals such as mice, shrews and chipmunks, animals that, like deer, can play host to the Lyme - disease - carrying ticks.

Next, they showed that deer mice and oldfield mice build the same kinds of burrows in the lab as in the wild — two very different environments.

The only animals to see an increase were «all other covered species,» which includes ferrets, squirrels, and some rodents (such as sand rats and deer mice) that are not excluded from the AWA.

Ticks acquire the bacterium through feeding on deer and small infected small animals, such as mice, squirrels, birds.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

Thus begins many rounds of a guessing game as the friends traipse through the woods, spying many wonderful discoveries: field of daisies, deer, a snake, squirrel, mischievous mice and more.

Leptospirosis is a contagious bacterial disease carried by wild animals such as deer, raccoons, mice, and cows.

There are several kinds of tapeworm the most common being Dipylidium Caninum this tapeworm uses fleas as the intermediate host whereas Taenia and Echinococcus which are less common are contracted by contact with either rodents such as rats, squirrels, mice and birds or larger livestock like Deer, Sheep, and Horses.

Unlike the island fox and the island deer mouse, the island spotted skunk shows no little differentiation between the two islands as well as the mainland subspecies, suggesting recent colonization of the species.

In captivity, live, frozen - thawed, or fresh - killed lab mice are vigorously taken, as are the domesticated strains of Western Deer Mmice are vigorously taken, as are the domesticated strains of Western Deer MiceMice.

Likewise, research on San Miguel Island showed that as seed predators, deer mice had limited impacts on giant coreopsis populations, especially when compared to the negative competitive effects of non-native annual grasses.

The Channel Islands and the waters surrounding hold many endemic species and subspecies of animals, including fauna such as the Channel Islands deer mouse, the Channel Islands spotted skunk, island scrub jay, San Clemente loggerhead shrike, and San Clemente Bell's sparrow.

On other Channel Islands, diets include plant items such as fruits from cactus, manzanita, saltbushes and seafigs, as well as insects and deer mice when they are present.

For example, the deer mouse and island fox are recognized as distinct subspecies on each of the islands they occur.

Two animal rights groups have asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Anacapa deer mouse as an endangered species and immediately halt a rat eradication program underway on Anacapa Island.

One such event was probably by rafting to Santarosae Island before that island broke up, as indicated by genetic similarity among deer mouse subspecies in the northern Channel Islands, and later colonizations could have resulted from unintentional transport by Native Americans (Ashley and Wills 1987).

The park service said hundreds of deer mice were taken off the island before the extermination campaign and are being reintroduced as the poisoning is finished.

The experts compared genetic behaviors between species of deer mice and oldfield mice, as well as a hybrid of these species.