Sentences with phrase «bird and mammals»

At first glance, the brains of birds and mammals show many significant differences.

In birds and mammals evidence of an attachment bond is observed when «couples» engage in mutual tasks such as territory defense, nest building, feeding and parental chores.

The researchers noted that 26 % of the world's bird and mammal species are not reliably included in protected areas.

The division into males and females is only complete for birds and mammals.

Cats, the organizations argue, not only threaten wild bird and mammal populations, but also transmit diseases and parasites to humans, citing a variety of studies.

Hundreds of scientific studies have documented local numbers of wild birds and mammals killed by cats.

Many birds and mammals sound alarms to let others know they've spotted a predator.

This is the pattern found in large birds and mammals, whose bodies keep themselves at a constant temperature.

However, many feel that it is more likely that the small bird and mammal prey of outdoor cats are the prime way that cats become infected.

How did simple organisms like yeast and worms evolve into ones as complex as birds and mammals?

Others are happy on many kinds of animals, including birds and mammals.

All of that also impacts food sources for marine birds and mammals: Just by the effects of two chemicals, and there are so many more chemical signals around.

The outlook for filling gaps in bird and mammal diversity could improve dramatically by smartly expanding the areas currently managed for conservation, they said.

Until now, most studies of animal migration have focused on large, easy - to - study birds and mammals.

More academic papers added to the body of research showing the importance of protecting wildlife, including large - bodied birds and mammals, for maintaining forest carbon stocks.

Like families, where individuals of different gender, age and dominance live together, several groups of insects, birds and mammals form a well - defined social structure.

Birds and mammals engage in all sorts of play: cats bat at string; birds appear to soar for the sheer joy of it.

The forest houses a wide variety of birds and mammals.

It's perfectly clear to almost anyone who knows anything about cats that millions of cats can kill millions, if not billions, of wild birds and mammals.

In birds and mammals, homosexual behavior has been shown to have evolutionary benefits.

There was a big knock - down of foxes and an immediate resurgence of native birds and mammals like the tammar wallaby, the critically endangered brush tailed bettong, or woylie, and the western ground parrot.

The stud, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change analyzed the impact of climate change on birds and mammals using 130 previous studies, making it the most comprehensive analysis of the current effects of climate change on animals.

There was a big fall in the fox population and an immediate resurgence of native birds and mammals like the tammar wallaby, the critically endangered brush tailed bettong (also known as the woylie) and the western ground parrot.

For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.

They have the right to harass and kill small birds and mammals with impunity (PLEASE DO NT give me any nonsense about cats only kill to eat, or cats only kill rodents... I'll invite you to meet my neighbor's perfect predator).

Benítez - López explains the difference in impact between birds and mammals: «Mammals are more sought after because they're bigger and provide more food.

Situated on Chicago's lakefront, Shedd is home to 32,000 animals representing more than 1,500 species of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds and mammals from waters around the world.

Was Antarctica a site of the origins of certain modern bird and mammal groups?

Since 1972, a few staff members and an army of volunteers have worked to improve the quality of life for San Diego - area wildlife through rehabilitation and conservation education — caring for roughly 10,000 injured, sick, or orphaned wild birds and mammals annually.

The 2007 AVMA report does not approve of use of gas chambers for animals under 16 weeks of age and states,» [r] eptiles, amphibians, and diving birds and mammals have a great capacity for holding their breath and anaerobic metabolism.

There was, of course, witch - hunt pioneer Stan Temple's op - ed in the Sun - Sentinel, referring to the paper as «a new study... provid [ing] a science - based estimate of the number of birds and mammals killed by cats nationwide.»

The number of chickens, pigs and cattle slaughtered per capita more than tripled between 1961 and 2009, and around 80 per cent of all threatened terrestrial bird and mammal species are threatened by agriculturally driven habitat loss.

Because birds and mammals regulate their own body temperatures, they don't have to adjust their behavior according to the outside temperature as dramatically as cold - blooded animals.

«As entire ecosystems are dependent on insects for food and as pollinators, it places the decline of insect eating birds and mammals in a new context,» states Hans de Kroon.

In a new study, researchers claim that parasitic lice can tell us much about the course of bird and mammal evolution, including whether the ancestors of these animals made it through a mass extinction that wiped out most of the dinosaurs.

A variety of native reptiles, birds and mammals such as the Spinifex Hopping Mouse may also be seen.

Prof Carlos Peres, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Large birds and mammals provide almost all the seed dispersal services for large - seeded plants.

«I don't think we should forget early birds and mammals.»

Although many species of birds and mammals exhibit such cooperative behavior, this is the first report of lizards constructing a family house.

Studies of early development in fishes show that neural networks in the brain controlling the more complex vocal and pectoral mechanisms of social signalling among birds and mammals have their ancestral origins in a single compartment of the hindbrain in fishes.

The international collaboration will survey viruses harbored by birds and mammals to identify candidates that might be zoonotic, or able to jump to humans.

Today, only birds and mammals are able both to produce their own body heat (this is known as endothermy) and maintain it at a high, stable temperature (homeothermy).

Sleeping lizards appear to share distinctive brain activity patterns with sleeping birds and mammals, researchers report in the April 29 Science.

Today, these beetle larvae live in bird and mammal nests, feeding on sloughed - off skin and feathers.

To conduct their new study, she and Pimm created a comprehensive database of species distributions, based on maps compiled by hundreds of naturalists, that show where species of amphibians, birds and mammals occur in China.