Sentences with phrase «by zoologists»

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet.

A new study by the zoologists Martin Nyffeler (University of Basel), Mike Maxwell (National University, La Jolla, California), and James Van Remsen (Louisiana State University) now shows that praying mantises all over the world also kill and eat small birds.

The offshore bird's secret, revealed for the first time in May by zoologists at Iowa State University, is in the storm petrel's telomeres, repetitive bits of DNA that sit on the ends of the chromosomes in each cell like protective caps.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

There are important differences between the altruism observed by zoologists, and caritas as described by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).

Looking at oyster tissue under a microscope, a team led by zoologist Andrew Mount of Clemson University in South Carolina recently came across another source.

Although Ameghino never found the evidence he sought, his reasoning is described in detail by zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans in On the Track of Unknown Animals.

They are becoming increasingly common and successful, according to the survey in Science «Reversing Defaunation: Restoring Species in a Changing World» (2014) by the zoologist Philip Seddon at the University of Otago in New Zealand and colleagues.

Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady, the sensitive and naive heroine — you could get away with that casting in 2004 — who gets a rude awakening when she enters the school system after being home - taught by zoologist parents in Africa.

In 1915, a group of Hovawart enthusiasts led by a zoologist named Kurt Friedrich König started a concentrated effort to resurrect the breed.

Not exact matches

Author: Don E. Wilson, David Burnie Hardcover; 624 pages; color photographs Series: Smithsonian Institution Publisher: DK Suggested Retail: $ 50 This is a giant reference book of the world's wildlife put together by the Smithsonian and a group of zoologists.

Indeed, they make use of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who in this matter wrongly adhered to the view held by Aristotle, who was a zoologist as well as a philosopher.

Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

The point is delightfully illustrated in Eddington's parable about the zoologist studying deep - sea life by means of a net of ropes on a two - inch mesh.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

I will end by quoting a characteristic remark by a very great zoologist.

Cockscomb was the idea of Alan Rabinowitz, an American zoologist who spent years by himself deep in the Belizean jungles, charting the behavior of the jaguar for the New York Zoological Society.

In an experiment conducted in 2000 by Anne Storey, a parenting psychologist, and Katherine Wynne - Edwards, a zoologist, the two women and their colleagues at Memorial University in Newfoundland began a quest to understand the physiological and behavioral changes that expectant fathers may undergo prior to their children being born.

For most zoologists, fieldwork involves lying low and watching quietly as animals wander by.

Zoologists are taught that life starts with animals, and they block out four - fifths of the information in biology [by ignoring the other four major groups of life] and all of the information in geology.

That changed in 1966, when zoologist Wolfgang Wiltschko showed that the direction in which the robins attempted to escape could be changed by powerful magnets.

The idea that migrating birds navigate across continents and oceans with the help of an internal compass had been suggested a century earlier by a Russian zoologist, but attempts to prove it had failed.

On April 12, 1930, zoologist Israel Aharoni had workers dig up a mother hamster and her 11 babies spied by a farmer in his wheat field near Aleppo, Syria.

Inspired by a lonely glowworm, a British zoologist investigates how humans are disturbing mating rituals of the natural world.

Still, without the long - term data collected by Wikelski and colleagues, researchers might not have even detected the die - off, says zoologist Robert Paine of the University of Washington.

By contrast, Australian zoologist Tim Flannery devotes several chapters in The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change (Atlantic Monthly Press, $ 25) to possible solutions.

Last September, zoologist Marcelo Sánchez - Villagra of the University of Tübingen in Germany unveiled the «exceptionally complete skeleton» of an 8 - million - year - old swampland forager that was by far the largest rodent ever known: roughly nine feet long and more than 1,500 pounds.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

In 1997, Erik Meijaard, a co-author of the paper and a biologist with Borneo Futures, a conservation group based in Bandar Seri Begawan, led a team that followed up on a 1935 report by a colonial - era zoologist.

He dismisses the careful experimental work of the zoologist Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford, and does not mention the extensive neurophysiological research on slaughter by agricultural researchers in Britain.

Featuring a panoply of talking heads that includes a loop of zoologist Richard Dawkins repeating the words, «We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes,» this chapter verges on scare mongering.

The expedition was led by well - known Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson but also included American zoologist Rudolph Martin Anderson and Canadian anthropologist Diamond Jenness.

Julia Parrish, a zoologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who did not work on the study, told Science News this is a case where a group of ants working together accomplishes more than you might expect by studying individuals.

When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel

When their country is invaded by the Germans, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel Bruhl).

Spencer becomes tough guy Dr Bravestone (Johnson), Fridge becomes zoologist Moone (Hart), Martha the kickass ninja Ruby Roundhouse (Gillan) and in awesome body swap style, Bethany becomes Dr Shelly Oberon a cartographer played by the never better Jack Black.

When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl of «Captain America: Civil War»).

You are ill at ease when Heck (a Nazi officer and zoologist, played by Daniel Bruhl) touches Antonina, but you know nothing bad is going to happen.

When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck.

Kinsey tells of how a zoologist became the nation's premier sex expert, seeing an incredible lack of education as intolerable, led by moral zealots who sought to keep the public feeling puritanical about the act.

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

When Poland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl of «Captain America: Civil War»).

When Poland is invaded by Nazis, the couple heroically work with the Resistance to secretly shelter Jews who've escaped from the Warsaw ghetto — right under the nose of the Reich's chief zoologist, played by Daniel Brühl.

And soon the Zabinskis are working with the local resistance to smuggle many more Jews out of the ghetto and into hiding, masking their mission by working with eminent Nazi zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Bruhl) on an ambitious animal - breeding program.

A new clip from the upcoming season premiere of Showtime's «Penny Dreadful» shows Eva Green's Vanessa Ives meeting zoologist Dr. Sweet, played by Christian Camargo.

A biology class published a 120 - page field guide on San Diego's harbor with a foreword by celebrity zoologist Jane Goodall.

Zoologist Davies combines fiction and nonfiction in this winning, informative title narrated by a young girl who describes the mallard ducks that live near her.

Based on research conducted by the BLS, approximately 20,100 zoologists are employed throughout the United States.

The German zoologist Paul Leyhausen (1916 — 1998), who spent the bulk of his career studying the behavior of cats, found that cats, frustrated by the difficulties of catching them, «may soon give up hunting birds.»