Sentences with phrase «dozen other biologists»

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In Alaska, biologists are learning that when wild salmon are free to swim upstream to spawn, dozens of other species flourish too

The mystery of this bizarre flower only deepened over the decades that followed, as a succession of biologists was drawn to it but unable to classify it, or the dozen or so other species of the family Rafflesiaceae they discovered in the forests of Southeast Asia, all lurid and stinking of decay.

Like about two dozen other manakins, the male uses its wings in a way that biologists don't yet understand to «sing» for its mate — producing clicking, rattling, and humming noises as it prances around during group courtship displays.

But some projects, which typically involved dozens of scientists at many institutions, were more effective than others, according to a panel chaired by molecular biologist Norma Allewell of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.