Sentences with phrase «by lemur»

All around us lay base camp: a few plain cement buildings and palm - thatched tenting sites administered by Conservation International and used mostly by lemur researchers.

PL Sleep Children's Sleepwear Recalled by Lemur Group Due to Violation of Federal Flammability Standard

Not exact matches

Rutila Resources and Lemur Resources have both received ticks of approval by independent experts for their respective off - market takeover offers by foreign bidders.

By: Mia Breytenbach 17th November 2017 Aim - listed Bushveld Minerals» Lemur Resources subsidiary, which is developing an integrated thermal coal mining and independent power producer asset in Madagascar, has appointed an owner's engineer and technical advisers for the bankable feasibility study (BFS) for the Imaloto power project... →

Unfortunately by the time we had bid # 90 mil for Lemur it was late in the day and then Lemur turned us down.

«The chemical traces in the urine are unique for each lemur, so by leaving scent marks the lemurs can interact and bond with their family without meeting them,» says Dröscher.

A number of small mammals, including the colugo — a flying lemur (Galeopterus variegates) native to southeast Asia and the Philippines — get around by climbing up trees and then gliding across the canopies an average distance of 30 meters.

THE white - footed sportive lemur does not need to see its family often — it keeps in touch by urinating instead.

Few people reported having recently eaten endangered lemurs — but that may be because most know that eating lemur is illegal, Jones says; when asked directly by the researchers, they said it was taboo.

By acting as the lemur's worst nightmare, the fossa helps maintain the island's blissful natural balance.

Led by Temple biology doctoral student Kim Reuter, the researchers spent three months in Madagascar surveying over 1,000 households in 17 cities and villages across the country's northern half about pet lemur ownership, which is illegal.

Each Lemur can infer temperature, pressure, and humidity by listening for GPS signals across the horizon.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

The habitat of this brown lemur in Madagascar is likely to shrink by half before the end of the century due to climate change, finds a Duke University study.

Frustrated by the lack of a good study model, Krasnow and his colleagues turned to the mouse lemur and began conducting detailed physiologic and genetic studies on hundreds of these petite, docile creatures in the rainforests of Madagascar.

«By studying specialists like the greater bamboo lemur, we can identify the different ways that climate change can cause extinction,» says author Jukka Jernvall at University of Helsinki.

By the end of the summer, the interns had come up with the mouse lemur, which fits all the necessary criteria: Like mice, these animals are small (about twice the size of a mouse), develop quickly, reproduce rapidly, produce many offspring, and are inexpensive and easy to maintain and manage.

Born to be Wild and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar editor Beth Spiegel and composer Mark Mothersbaugh collaborated with Douglas and Fellman once again, with sound design by Gus Koven.

Boarding the rickety wreck, the four friends, along with the lemur leader and his assistant (voices by Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer), put their lives in the hands of the penguin skipper (voice by Tom McGrath) and his bird - brained crew.

This is made by the filmmakers behind the other nature docs Born to be Wild and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, and features a score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (of Thor: Ragnarok).

One older woman sat by her souvenir table with a lemur in her lap.

During Art Basel Miami Beach the Wolfsonian also mounted a fully automated / robotic orchestration of the then - scandalous 1924 «Ballet Mécanique», presented by Paul D. Lehrman, coordinator of music technology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and Eric Singer, director of the League of Electrical Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR)(to see our interview with Eric Singer click here).

Built by textile magnates Stephen and Virginia Courtauld, the interiors overflow with glamour and opulence; a stunning gold - plated bathroom, Virginia's walk - in wardrobe and the bedroom of the couple's pet lemur really set the scene.

This cartoon head is Lemurenheim («Lemur Head», 2002), a work in plaster made by the Austrian artist Franz West in collaboration with the artist Rudolf Stingel in response to an invitation by the architect Hermann Czech to create a series of sculptures for a bridge in Vienna.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.