Sentences with word «bighead»
The commercial catch of bighead carp increased tenfold in the Mississippi River Basin between 1994 and 1997, a figure that reflects a surge in supply rather than growing demand to eat them.
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Soon, columns of bigheaded ants streamed into the trees.
Then they trucked the trees — ants and all — to the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya, which has a high density of bigheaded ants.
«But it does not estimate all the other damages potentially caused by bighead and silver carp such as those that may occur in tributaries of Lake Erie, effects to recreational activities as a result of silver carp jumping behavior.»
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In his office he shows off a rack of teeth that were taken from a monstrous, 106 - pound bighead.
According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.
When bigheaded ants reached the Crematogaster nests inside the swollen thorns, they pulled out the brood and brought them back to their own nests.
Modern bighead carp are among the largest members of the carp family, reaching a length of up to 1.5 meters and a weight of 50 kilograms.
Three actors in bigheaded, fuzzy - wuzzy costumes play Goobie (brainy, bespectacled), Zoozie (girlish, pigtailed) and Toofie (rowdy, sloppy), who are preparing a birthday surprise for their favorite throw pillow, Schluufy (babbling, immobile).
During their studies the team discovered teeth belonging to an entirely new genus and species of fish: The oldest known bighead carp, Planktophaga minuta, is a representative of the «East Asian group of Leuciscinae.»
Likewise, we can't be certain that Jack Bighead was Les Shy than Fred Chicken, whatever their names suggest.
Bighead needs to shoot and not try to look like dinhio.
We need a good dressing room — not one full of poisonous bigheads.
Hopefully our team doesn't get bigheaded.
There is no evidence to date whether bighead or silver carp are established in the lake.
CERC maintains and studies carp of all sizes: adult bigheads and silvers in a dozen ponds; six - inch juveniles, swirling in tight schools in tanks; eggs and larvae floating in beakers; even carp in an aquarium behind the receptionist's desk.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers installed heavy - duty electrical fish barriers on the canal, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources poisoned the canal on two occasions, killing thousands of fish while turning up a single bighead carp.
Nobody lost sleep when some silvers and bigheads escaped into rivers during flood events.
«Asian carp, in particular bighead and silver carp [such as the one caught in June], feed on the small food items at the very base of the food chain.
In Europe, introduced bighead carp can be found in ponds, lakes and occasionally in streams and rivers.
Two of them, the so - called bighead and silver carp, probably pose the biggest threats in American waters.
In experiments conducted in 2010 and 2011, the Illinois researchers placed bighead and silver carp into small containers.
The term covers bighead, silver, grass and black carp.
The key is to be confident and talk positively about yourself without coming across bigheaded.
Kabluey The title character in this indie comedy is the blue, bigheaded mascot of a Texas Internet company not exactly poised to become the next Google.
Shortly after the procedure begins, the medical staff morphs into strange pink creatures (who look like a cross between the classic 1960s bigheaded alien and Lord of the Rings» Gollum).
Last year in Seguin, Texas, a 78 - pound pit bull named Bighead set a record by pulling 5,650 pounds over rails for a distance of 15 feet.
In typically acerbic manner Blockhead (2003) and Daddies Bighead (2003) are respectively based on Pinnocchio and a ketchup bottle.
Mentors becoming bigheaded over their teacher role, eventually trying to micromanage their protégés
Although Crematogaster ants are five times larger than bigheaded ants, they were overwhelmed within an hour or two.
«But it does not estimate all the other damages potentially caused by bighead and silver carp such as those that may occur in tributaries of Lake Erie, or effects to recreational activities as a result of silver carp jumping behavior.»
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In June 2010, a 19 - pound bighead was caught in Calumet Lake, upstream of the barriers and only six miles from Lake Michigan.
During excavations in the open lignite - mining pit Na Duong in Vietnam, a joint team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Tübingen discovered the world's oldest bighead carp.
If bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last three decades, according to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology on Thursday (Aug. 6) by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory.
Modern bighead carp are among the largest members of the carp family.
Experts estimated that Yellow perch biomass would not decrease as a result of bighead and silver carp, and could possibly increase by 15 to 50 % of recently recorded biomass for this fish in Lake Erie.
So I really don't understand your bigheaded boastful point!?
Wenger knows that if he would put Ramsey on the bench, the bighead would immediately put an transfer request in to leave the club.
Ramsey is such a bighead.
They actually did superbly to qualify from a difficult group, but being second always meant they could end up with a «bighead» in this round.
In two weeks of intensive, follow - up monitoring, no bighead or silver Asian carp were found, a regional monitoring group says.
Eleven experts estimated that if the carp become established in Lake Erie, bighead and silver carp biomass in Lake Erie could range from close to zero but up to over 25 metric - tons / km2 which is greater than the sum of walleye and yellow perch biomass in Lake Erie.
Since 1995 at least three bighead carp have been recovered from Lake Erie.