Sentences with phrase «do carrion»

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

Not exact matches

The crows present a puzzling question to biologists, which gets to the heart of what it means to be a species: Given that hooded and carrion crows can mate and swap genes, how do the two groups maintain their individual identities?

This and other evidence challenged the long - held idea that the first humans didn't have the intelligence and technology to hunt, eating carrion instead.

If carrion flies have one enviable talent, it's finding animal carcasses in the wilderness, something they surpass even the most systematic and intrepid field biologists at doing.

It's like comparing carrion and dung: which do you prefer?

See if anyone knows what carrion means — if no one does, have someone look it up.

Even contaminated food generally doesn't get a chance to harm a dog, which is why dogs can consume nasty stuff like carrion and suffer no ill effects.

CREA deserves to to chopped up and deposited in a giant slow - cooker crock pot, because that is just what it deserves... because... it is simply a big fat, rotting, over-stuffed, over-hyped carcass of an over-paid bunch of self - back - patting, unrealistic, know - nothing pen - pushers arranged in a disheveled pile of under - cooked, under - experienced, overly - sure - of - itself, cocky bureaucratic pile of putrefying carrion that could not survive three months out in the trenches amongst those whom it directs from on high what to say / not say and do / not do.