Sentences with phrase «by other carnivores»

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

Intriguingly, when the researchers analyzed the rabies virus harbored by the hyenas, it turned out to be a strain genetically distinct from the one carried by the other carnivores.

Not exact matches

This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.

Parasite avoidance is also a likely reason why the carcasses of herbivores are rapidly scavenged by other animals, whereas dead carnivores are not and why the latter end up providing more nutrients for invertebrates and vegetation.

Humans kill sharks, snakes, pumas, coyotes, wolves, bears, skunks, raccoons, crocodiles, and other carnivores by the millions annually.

And other cooperative creatures, including numerous birds and carnivore species, exhibit that same pattern of reproductive dominance by one or a few females.

The study by OSU's Institute for Natural Resources focused on how three carnivores — ringtails, foxes, and fishers — affect each other's population numbers and colonization behavior.

Other dinosaur trackways can be found at the Plagne site, including a series of 18 tracks extending over 38 m, left by a carnivore of the ichnogenus Megalosauripus.

That might sound obvious, but proving the relationship is important because it paves the way for future surveys that can explore who is killing carnivores by simply asking people innocuous questions about their attitudes and their views on the behaviour of others.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

The genomic analysis found that the level of diversity between the four individuals amounted to approximately 2 million variable mutations, which is roughly similar to overall diversity exhibited by other endangered carnivores.

To be fair, the link between meat - eating and early death was bolstered by other unhealthy habits, like heavy drinking or inadequate physical activity (when carnivores lacked these lifestyle factors, the diet - death link disappeared).

By this time, I stumbled onto this crazy (like a fox) carnivore doctor named Shawn Baker, Amber O'Hearn, the Inuit and others within the internet rabbit hole of forbidden dietary knowledge.

Millions of years of eating nothing but meat has rendered cats and other obligate carnivores dependent on it — unlike omnivores or herbivores, cats can no longer synthesize certain vitamins and amino acids, so they must get these nutrients by eating the flesh of other animals.

All obligate carnivores have evolved to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating one thing: the muscles, organs, and other body parts of prey animals.

Cats, on the other hand, are obligate carnivores, who have adapted to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating whole prey, just like their wild big cat cousins.

By nature, dogs are omnivores (their diet includes meat and other stuff) and cats are carnivores (their diet includes meat).

While some cats are more sensitive to the detrimental effects of carbohydrates than others, the bottom line is that cats are obligate carnivores and are not designed by nature to consume a high carbohydrate diet or one that is water - depleted (dry kibble).

We also have some — though not many — reefs even in the Caribbean that have a lot of healthy coral and are patrolled by sharks, grouper, snapper, barracuda, and other large carnivores.