Sentences with phrase «dung beetle»
Will a dung beetle rolling contest spark that?
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The distance each household's dung beetle travels is based on how successful they are in reducing power consumption.
«Efforts to enhance connectivity are important for wide - ranging species, however,» added Hurd, «so the bird and dung beetle are important indicators but not «keystone» species.»
[T] he standing value of timber dropped from $ 10,460 per hectare to $ 2,010 per hectare after two logging rotations, yet these forests retained over 75 percent of bird and dung beetle species found in primary unlogged forest.
The bird and dung beetle losses that occur during logging are not trivial, and our results should not be used to suggest that, by logging primary forests, governments could gain huge financial profits at little cost to biodiversity.
III 15th edition (Chicago, 1983), s.v. dung beetle, p. 709.
Long interested in the mysteries of the night sky and the natural world, internationally - recognized artist Diana Thater is fascinated by the dung beetle and its relationship to our galaxy.
Sasamoto takes that shit bit to heart in her recent exhibition at SculptureCenter, Delicate Cycle, which likens human existence to the mound of excrement a dung beetle balls up and pushes around its entire life.
For her latest show at David Zwirner, «Science Fiction,» Thater — who will be receiving a survey at LACMA this fall — is presenting her most enveloping environment to date: «involving an enclosed video projection, ceiling screen, and light, as well as two new video walls,» the installation will be an operatic examination of the internal navigation system of the dung beetle, the only animal that guides itself by its relative position to the Milky Way.
Yoku's Island Express is a pinball - based platformer, based around the adventures of a postman dung beetle.
So why a dung beetle?
But we liked the look of a dung beetle attached to a ball, bouncing around.»
For a game about a dung beetle, there's surprisingly little faeces being rolled around in Yoku's Island Express.
In the brief time I had with the game, I met a number of characters with tasks for my postman dung beetle.
Players will take on the role of Yoku, a dung beetle who lands a job as a post master, and quickly finds himself on an adventure to save the island.
The playable character is Yoku the dung beetle, who has started to work for an island's postal service.
Yoku the dung beetle has arrived on Mokumana Island to take over the role of postmaster and...
Explore a wild jungle frontier as a tiny dung beetle rolling a tiny, uh, ball (we'll go with ball), hunt for treasure, and interact with big turtle creatures whose heads are pinball flippers.
Yoku the dung beetle has arrived on Mokumana Island to take over the role of postmaster and he's ready for the easy life, soaking up the sun and delivering parcels on a tropical paradise!
Yoku is a dung beetle that travels to Mokumana Island, with a new job as a postman.
Yoku's Island Express has the unusual feature of combining open world exploration with pinball mechanics, thanks to the games dung beetle protagonist!
«The trailer showcases some of the abilities that newly appointed postmaster, Yoku the dung beetle, will discover as he flips and bumps around Mokumana island using a unique blend of pinball mechanics in his noble quest to save the island... and deliver the mail!
Often times in the deserts of the Wildspire Waste it may not seem odd to see a dung beetle or two strolling about, rolling a giant ball of dung about.
Until the snow sticks and I can hunt the dung beetle all I need to catch for December is a stringfish.
RPG's of this ilk usually have you reading text boxes forever and a day but here, your dung beetle guide Puku keeps things short, saying only what's necessary and delivers the occasional joke.
Marvel at the sight of humpback whales as they spout and gambol close to the shoreline and experience a close - up encounter with Africa's spectacular wildlife, from the mighty elephant to the captivating dung beetle.
And lest you look down upon this lowly poop - eating insect, know that the dung beetle is the only member of the animal kingdom to master navigation by the starlight of the Milky Way.
Photo credits Banner peregrine: Kevin Cole / Wikimedia Commons Thumbnail elephant seal: Jane Khudyakov / NPS Elephant seal: Carolyn Campbell / NPS Peregrine falcon: © Tim Hauf / NPS Dung beetle: Joe Bruce / NPS Sooty shearwater: Marlin Harms / Wikimedia Commons Spittlebug: Else Freese / Wikimedia Commons
The word he uses is akin to vermin, and a cleaning woman late into the story refers to Gregor as a dung beetle.
Illustrated in ruddy, earth - toned illustrations, this collection of poems catalogs the animal residents of the African savanna, from the diminutive dung beetle to the massive elephant and titular wildebeest.
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His research, recently published in the journal «Current Biology,» revealed that the dung beetle uses the Milky Way to navigate.
«When you combine the current increase in meat consumption around the world with the steep declines in many dung beetle species, overall emissions from cattle farming can only increase.»
The toxicity of new livestock medications therefore needs to be verified in ecotoxicological tests with individual animal species such as the common yellow dung fly, the barn fly or a dung beetle.
The life of a female dung beetle is highly competitive.
Often thought of as nature's garbage collectors, the important ecosystem service offered by dung beetle helps recycle nutrients, reduces parasites, and can even help seeds germinate.
But rolling dung balls in a straight line is also key to the male dung beetle's reproductive success.
«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.
«The dung beetle species richness and biomass, and the soil removal rates were negatively affected by increasing the logging intensity.»
While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican - Italian research team discovered three new dung beetle species in montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.
«So I was really surprised when I discovered three dung beetle species.»
Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close - up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle.
In June take the cricket and the dung beetle and a red worm with its head cut off and a caddis worm before, and put them all on your hook at once -LRB-!).
Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»
It is no different than me asserting quite contrary to all available evidence, that the universe was created by a dung beetle named steve who lives in a glorious refuse heap in another dimension.
When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene.
Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132,000 to 110,000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period, before agriculture, from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago).
«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.
While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.
As their name suggests, dung beetles are insects that feed mainly on mammal faeces.