Sentences with phrase «by most rodents»

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About a third of mice exposed to severe stress (in the form of aggressive attacks by other rodents) seem to breeze through these assaults without developing the social withdrawal, listlessness or other depression and traumalike symptoms displayed by most of their rodent lab - mates.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

Unlike most rodents, Roddy is content to stay in his cage and enjoy the comforts of his posh «home» — but that all changes when a rat sneaks in and gives him the boot, by promptly flushing our reluctant hero down the loo.

Rango» — The Bat Chase There are a number of spiritedly strange moments in Gore Verbinski's animated delight «Rango,» but the most rousing, the most jaw - dropping, the most hilarious and weird, has to be a prolonged chase sequence involving a stagecoach getting pulled by a boar and a horde of inbred rodents riding bats and firing Gatling guns.

However, the most feared pest was actually the bed bug, with 39 % of respondents saying they would least like to see bedbugs, followed by rodents, cockroaches, ants and then flies.

Chinchillas are one of the most intelligent members of the rodent family, and they communicate using a wide variety of sounds that can vary by individual and family groups.

The trio came to live in her back yard in urban Chicago as part of the Cats at Work program created by Tree House Humane Society as an effective solution to the serious rodent problem typical in most densely populated cities.

There are several kinds of tapeworm the most common being Dipylidium Caninum this tapeworm uses fleas as the intermediate host whereas Taenia and Echinococcus which are less common are contracted by contact with either rodents such as rats, squirrels, mice and birds or larger livestock like Deer, Sheep, and Horses.

Despite the belief held by most people who have never owned a rabbit, rabbits are not simply rodents with docked tails.

Most commonly, cats get roundworms from infected water, food, or by eating rodents.

For the next few posts, I'm going to critique three of the studies most often cited by these researchers, starting with Cole Hawkins» 1998 PhD dissertation, Impact of a subsidized exotic predator on native biota: Effect of house cats (Felis catus) on California birds and rodents.

The most common type of rodent poison intoxication seen at the Animal Medical Center is life - threatening hemorrhage caused by anticoagulant rodenticides such as d - CON or Tomcat.

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a protozoan parasite found in dogs and certain rodents in many parts of the world, most commonly in rural areas.

Most of these common parasites are contracted by ingesting infected soil, water, bodily waste, or an infected host such as a bird or rodent.

The virus is found in rodents with rock squirrels, prairie dogs and ground squirrels being the most susceptible in the U.S. Fleas carried by the rodents transmit the bacteria to other animals and humans through their bites.

While most chews are not meant to actually be eaten by rodents, it is safe for them to eat small quantities of wood, cardboard, grass and other natural fibers.

Black - tailed deer are the most common, accounting for roughly over half of the catalogued photos, followed by gray squirrels, small rodents, and raccoons.

The Detective Pikachu movie will not only see the most famous fictional rodent since Mickey Mouse star in his own feature film (voiced by Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds), but will also serve as a live - action debut for the Pokémon franchise overall!

The most critical findings are that, in rodents, (i) functional enhancement during adulthood across diverse functional domains at both behavioral and neuroendocrine levels can be induced by repeated neonatal exposures to a relatively novel nonhome environment; and (ii) these functional improvements occurred in the absence of evidence of preferential maternal care and, more importantly, in the presence of direct evidence for lesser maternal care relative to home - staying siblings.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).