Sentences with phrase «birds than scientists»

Deep within their cells people may share more with birds than scientists expected.

Early dinosaurs probably looked a lot more like Big Bird than scientists once suspected.

Not exact matches

Young birds running up steep ramps flap their wings before they can fly, and scientists studying the energetics of flight have found that birds use far less energy running and flapping up steep inclines angles than they do flying at similar angles.

«For more than 100 years, scientists have used sonic vibrations to monitor birds, bats, frogs and insects.

Before the 1990s, this phenomenon led scientists to believe that more than 90 percent of all species were monogamous, but thanks to improved genetic testing, we now know most birds actually stray from their partners.

Now, scientists have reported in the journal Bird Study that concentrating on making food supplies less accessible may prove more effective at countering these «nuisance events» than removing rooftop nesting.

The scientists used flat objects to ensure the birds would easily be able to remove the fake «eggs» if they wanted to (flat objects are easier to grasp with the beak than round ones).

To better understand such factors and to show the full impact of WNV, a team of scientists analyzed 16 years of data collected from 1992 to 2007 at more than 500 stations across the United States where birds are regularly trapped and banded.

For decades, if not centuries, scientists rejected the notion that animals other than mammals actually play, even when faced with observational reports of frolicking fish or apparently fun - loving birds.

Scientists got to wondering whether this habit might provide the birds benefits other than comfy bedding.

There are more than 10,000 known bird species, making it impossible for scientists to test how each will respond to having humans as noisy neighbors.

Now that scientists know mosquitoes suck blood from male birds more than females, they can turn their research attention globally.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

Bird Compasses March 11, 2015 Birds have an amazing, innate ability to sense where magnetic north lies, and scientists think they're closer than ever to understanding the secrets of their natural compass.

«Tetrick explained how, rather than slaughtering a chicken, scientists could extract stem cells from a bird's fallen feather and grow them into muscle cells.»

Readers will pick up some fascinating historical information, too, and they'll be intrigued to encounter kids who sometimes know more than adults, scientists who believe in magic and birds that might not be just birds.

(Washington, D.C., January 29, 2013) A new peer - reviewed study published today and authored by scientists from two of the world's leading science and wildlife organizations — the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)-- has found that bird and mammal mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird mortality now estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion and mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals.

Threats to songbirds occasionally make splashy headlines, as when Smithsonian scientists released a report in January indicating that free - ranging domestic cats kill far more birds than previously believed: between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds annually in the lower 48 states.

The truth, according to Bird and cosmetic scientists, is that unprotected, unpreserved products with risks of contamination can be potentially more hazardous than the chemicals used to preserve them.

Led by more than 320 volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.

Naturalists, adventurers, photographers and scientists visit to explore an astonishing diversity of flora, fauna and wildlife with more than 140 species of mammals, over 300 species of birds, 100 amphibians and reptiles, and more than 10,000 species of insects discovered so far.

The tracking station contains four antennas, plus a receiver that collects data on the migrating patterns of birds and bats that scientists have previously tagged with tiny, very high - frequency (VHF) transmitters, weighing less than 1.5 grams each.