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These «dark posts» — sponsored Facebook posts that can only be seen by users with specific profiles — included videos aimed at African - Americans in which Hillary Clinton refers to black men as predators, for example.

Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating whales.

The same advertisers (including Geogetown U) that pulled from Limbaugh's show have been direct sponsors of adult content being shared with children by predators online in the millions for over seven years on Flickr.

so according to your logic a mutation occurred in not one but a number of these creatures and their offspring and with their «webbing» (not wings) not all of them fell out of the trees or cliffs to die and be eaten by predators?

They were treated to a litany of anti-LGBT propaganda, including the false claims that being molested as a child causes hom.ose.xuality, that LGBT people are se.xual predators trying to turn children gay by molesting them, and that gay rights activists want to replace marriage with a culture of se.xual promiscuity.

This theory is so resilient because it can always turn a gaze unclouded by memory or imagination on the least favored group in any moment or circumstance, like the Darwinian predator fixing its eye on the gazelle with the sprained leg, perfectly indifferent to the fact that another gazelle was lame two days ago, yet another will be lame tomorrow.

What possible explanation could there by for putting up with this maniacal, hypocritical predator??

In any case, we had this at dinnertime along with a delicious baked brie + chocolate popcorn for dessert... and then we rang in the new year by watching a couple of episodes of To Catch A Predator, which my friend recently started watching whilst on her OB / GYN rotation.

While society has no trouble envisioning the violent molester and the child who is forced to submit to a sexual predator, many people are baffled by how adult seducers are able to get young athletes to go along with them voluntarily.

It is suggested by early childhood educators that children encounter their name in print multiple times throughout the day; however, there are some safety concerns with having your child's name evident in public places where predators could use this information to lure your child.

By far the most important step a parent can take to protect her child from a sexual predator is to make sure the coach is never alone with a child.

Earlier this week, one of our ducks disappeared, with only traces of blood and feathers left behind... and an injured duck too, clearly from an attempted nab by whatever predator it was.

Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

The Palatine Park District has also turned to a more natural way of dealing with geese by not mowing around ponds, which discourages geese who are fearful of predators hiding in the tall grass, Gould said.

«It's a shame today that the Senate chose not to side with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and instead continued to aid and abet predators by refusing to fix New York's broken statute of limitations for these abominable crimes,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman.

Mr. Martinez isn't the only alleged sexual predator that is employed by the New Rochelle School District that was awarded a promotion with pay raise.

DeFrancisco has agreed to meet Monday with Robb and other supporters of the Child Victims Act, a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) and Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan) that would eliminate the statute of limitations and give past victims a one - year window to file civil lawsuits against predators and institutions that cover up sexual abuse.

«It's a shame today that the Senate chose not to side with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and instead continued to aid and abet predators by refusing to fix New York's broken statute of limitations for these abominable crimes,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan), who sponsored the Child Victims Act.

Others described injuries different from those left by bird predators, which together with mucus trails and droppings in the nests, suggests slugs as the cause of the birds» death.

With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.

For decades, wildlife documentaries have promoted the idea that Komodo dragons owe their success as predators to toxic bacteria in their saliva — a claim bolstered by a 2002 study reporting deaths among lab mice injected with their saliva.

He is referring to a famous painting by Charles Knight that seems to capture in midaction a fight between two of these creatures, small but terrifying predators with sicklelike claws.

Researchers now find that certain male fish solve the problem by wooing females with secret ultraviolet signals their major predators can't see.

The effect could also apply higher up the food chain — predators often have to deal with toxins produced by their prey, such as scorpion venom.

They control other predators, and by doing so, they regulate species with which they never directly interact.

Others described the injuries as being different from those left by other predators, which, together with mucus trails and droppings, suggested a slug as the cause of death.

In one test, 120 chickens were randomly selected from the 1,006 - bird sample and placed one by one in a box with a human «predator» sitting visibly nearby.

In water, the pale belly blends in with sunlight falling from above, making the animal invisible to predators below, whereas the dark back hides the animal from shallow predators by helping it blend in with the darker depths.

The researchers, playing predators, scared the lizards by touching their tails with a paintbrush and recorded where the lizards went.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

To simulate injury — like that caused by a predator in the wild — the team performed amputations on anesthetized ephyra, producing animals with two, three, four, five, six, or seven arms, rather than the usual eight.

In contrast, other species such as primates and the lowland tapir are not devoured by as many predators and can't cope with human hunting.

By modelling predator (bird) vision with image analysis techniques, they showed that the sand fleas are extremely well camouflaged to the respective beaches on which they are found.

The fastest and most famous case of evolution by natural selection is the case of the British peppered moths: In the 19th century, as mills and factories began to darken the air with soot, a rare all - black mutant quickly became more common in Britain than the normal white moth with black spots because it was less conspicuous to predators.

However, the biologists in Bergen are about to test another hypothesis, namely that nests with chicks from multiple fathers are less vulnerable to attack by predators.

«We see that the nests with chicks only from the male that feeds them are more often attacked by predators.

These vocalizations are evoked by the presence of a predator and so are closely linked in time with a particular stimulus.»

We also know that the females that have had their brood attacked by predators will be more likely to mate with multiple males the following year.

«The nests with chicks only from the male that feeds them are more often attacked by predators.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

Chivers and his team also taught frog embryos to fear the fire - bellied newt, a potential predator, by exposing frog eggs to the newt's scent combined with that of crushed tadpoles.

Early Solutions Given the difficulty of successfully pleading not guilty by reason of insanity — as well as the inherent problems in mixing disordered inmates, whose disorders tend to make them vulnerable, with nondisordered inmates, who are often predators — early attempts at solving this problem have been workarounds.

I was also measuring predation risk, to see whether wolves and other predators influence elk movements by causing them to avoid areas with escape impediments, such as downed wood and thick brush.

To find out how eggs can tell the difference between vibrations produced by, say, a harmless rainstorm and those produced by predators, Warkentin teamed up with Greg McDaniel, a mechanical engineer at Boston University, in the early 2000s.

Other adaptations help animals move better in their environments, blend in with their surroundings so they don't get eaten by predators or successfully hunt for their dinner.

In two of them P. perezi has been co-existing with the red swamp crayfish for more than 30 years (populations of long - term coexistence), in another they have been sharing a habitat for 20 years (population of short - term coexistence), while the last two populations are found in an area which has not yet been colonised by the exotic predator (populations without coexistence),» adds the scientist.

We also fed the predators in these compartments with larvae so that they produced chemical signals indicative of predation which could be detected by the larvae in the experiment,» Orizaola explains.

Joel Berger tested this by tossing snowballs imbued with predator scents, such as wolf urine and grizzly bear feces, at ungulates.

«As with all good studies, this one generates many new questions,» says Staffan Bensch, an animal ecologist at Lund University in Sweden, who wonders whether the virus has benefitted some songbird species by killing off their avian predators, jays and crows.