Sentences with phrase «as turtle nesting»

that there are further studies of island processes and projected climate change impacts on island environments, including uninhabited islands with problems such as turtle nesting failures.

Recommendation 2: That there are further studies of island processes and projected climate change impacts on island environments, including uninhabited islands with problems such as turtle nesting failures.

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A turtle nest can be seen as a common property resource.

I'm going to sue because I didn't see a «Kill the Turtle» license plate as an opposing view the the «save the turtle» plate they offer in North Carolina.

But amazingly the fact that some said it rested on the back of a turtle did not make it fact, as I was pointing out, just arguing about God's existence is not proof of that existence.

And some Atheists there is a vested interest into making Agnostics into Atheists so as to say, «Common on, sure there may be a super turtle flying around the sun that is the source of all happiness, but we don't believe it is possible enough to grant the least credence, so we are A-Super-Turtlists in the same way we are A-Theists.»

Does not logic dictate that both birds and turtles somehow acquired this «skill», not on their own or by evolution, but that a Master Designer created them with this marvelous navigational ability just as a GPS was designed by a mind?

I love to watch you eat and drink and dance and explore and worship and pray and get out of your car to move that poor little turtle out of the road... not because you do any of these things perfectly, but because you do them as my children.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtN'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Leviticus 5:11 «But if he can not afford two turtle doves or two young doves, then he shall bring as his sacrifice for his sin one tenth of an ephah [measurement] of fine flour for a sin offering.

Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from not feeling God's presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.

He got up and raced as fast as he could, but nevertheless, was not able to beat the slow and steady turtle across the finish line.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

Not to be confused with the Chinese variety (as in «black bean sauce», which are actually fermented soy beans), the common variety used in South America are actually a black turtle bean, often called a frijol negro in spanish.

For non-Americans like me who, upon hearing the word «turtle», think not of confectionary but the creature upon which Discworld rests, Christopher Elbow describes this treat as «perfectly roasted pecans and soft caramel encased in premium dark chocolate... [topped] off with Grey Sea Salt from France.

CARAMEL PECAN TURTLE FUDGE - traditionally known as Turtle Fudge it» one of my favorite sweet treats; it doesn't have to the holidays for me to enjoy this.

I am familiar with all the online retailers you mention, but cautious in my purchases b / c I know it's not nearly as economical than picking up a bag of black turtles at the local store.

As I sit here trying to think of some clever and entertaining way to start this recipe, I remember that I have not done anything interesting for months other than rescue a turtle from the road.

Now, I'm not naïve enough to believe that all my food is humanely harvested, no matter how I try to buy products labeled as such, but I'm not about to go smacking turtles.

I don't think Sczny is all that bad of a goal keeper, we will all agree that he is not as good as tubut, degea etc but I think is father is spot on with his anology Mert is like a big over grown turtle and equally as slow every defender in the league knows that if your keeper advance you should go straight on the goal line debuchy did it in the closing moments of that game that's what Mert should have done.

guys thumb me down but i think although Mertesacker is slow as turtle he is very intelligent with him today we wouldnt concede the 2nd goal basically manu scored in all their opportunities and arsenal played with 10 man in the first hour as this guy walcot is piece of Siht hSit iSHt keep him as sub much better play Campbell or Giroud or whoever not walcot

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

It's Sunday afternoon and I have helped a group of second graders spot the queen of our leaf - cutter ant colony, held two fox snakes, acted as a perch for a bunch of newly hatched butterflies not quite ready to fly, and fed no less than three box turtles.

Other mammals and birds also have REM sleep stages, but cold - blooded animals such as turtles, lizards and fish do not.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Wiffle Ball and a host of other popular toys didn't make the cut as inductees into the National National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, while Twister, Super Soaker and the puppet were selected.

This makes it not only a clean option for your turtle but an incredibly safe one as well.

Their results published in Nature Genetics show that turtles are not primitive reptiles as previously thought, but are related to the group comprising birds and crocodilians, which also includes extinct dinosaurs.

«The work not only provides insight into how turtles evolved, but also gives hints as to how the vertebrate developmental programs can be changed to produce major evolutionary novelties.»

Goannas have overtaken foxes as the number one predator of the endangered loggerhead turtle at its second largest Queensland nesting beach.

Still, they, like crocodiles, turtles, mammals, and birds, survived the asteroid impact, suggesting that the mass extinction at the time may not have been as massive as previously thought.

They found that the virus kills between 70 and 80 per cent of carp populations, but does not harm native fish or other species such as frogs and turtles.

It's not clear when or how the 202 - year - old Academy acquired the fossil, but the first scientific description of it in 1849 identified it as belonging to an ancient sea turtle.

The study, conducted off the coast of Australia during the turtle nesting season, also found the behavior of healthy green turtles suggests that they do not perceive tiger sharks as a major threat during nesting season.

The finding, in tomorrow's issue of Nature, is the first solid evidence for the turtles» remarkably precise homing instinct, and it strengthens the argument by conservationists that as many nesting areas as possible must be protected to ensure diversity.

Construction is, however, expected to take as long as three years, creating the potential to displace at least three sea turtle nesting seasons.

Although SpaceX has won praise from some wildlife managers for its plans to minimize negative effects, the launch facility is a worry for conservationists such as Carole Allen of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, particularly about the Kemp's ridley turtle, which nests primarily in Texas and northern Mexico and nearly went extinct in the 1970s.

Dr Erica Hendy, Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles in the School of Earth Sciences, added: «However, you simply can't tag a coral larvae to follow where it ends up as you would a large marine animal like a turtle or shark.

The findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

On the beaches, there are also nesting sea turtles and as you go inland, many, many species, including jaguars and tapirs.

Once, not ten feet from the bow of my kayak, a green turtle popped its head above the water and drew a breath just as a grazing manatee drifted by.»

Hirayama noticed that the bones in its limbs were not fused into rigid paddles as they are in living sea turtles.

They're also the key toCongdon's groundbreaking discovery: Blanding's and perhaps also MidlandPainted turtles don't senesce — deteriorate physically — as they growold.

Youth isn't kind to leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), which are facing extinction in the eastern Pacific Ocean as beach resorts and hotels spring up.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.

These European reptiles inhabited warm, shallow seas of the continent, but «they were not as agile in this environment as today's sea turtles, who are able to cover very large distances and cross seas and even oceans,» the expert explains.

Many of the most at - risk species (including some turtle, shark and marine mammal species) are not fully protected, even in parks as big as the PRIMNM.

The film captured a mass - nesting event known as an arribada, involving tens of thousands of nesting turtles on a single day in 1947.

Same thing in giant turtles who normoglycemic or hypoglycemic for their entire life; Centenarians have reduced blood glucose levels and reduced blood glucose increase over the years, their blood glucose is monotonic plateau, where as elders dying below 80s show blood glucose rise each decade until their death, their pancreatic Beta cells can't secrete enough insulin and they are mildly pre - diabetic / insulin resistant.

We lagged the effect of x on N as the variability of x influences juvenile turtles, only a portion of which breed λ years later and are observed nesting.

Turtles are strongly linked to local culture in Fiji, and the island has emerged as a nesting ground for many different species of the sacred animal.