Sentences with phrase «eaten by mammals»

Bitter compounds are plants» way of protecting themselves from being eaten by mammals.

They are not eaten by mammals, who are repelled by the chemical capsaicin, which makes the pods hot.

Not exact matches

The transients could have been driven by hunger to make up for the smaller, less nutritionally satisfying sea mammals by eating many more of them.

Shellfish and anchovies containing toxins can get eaten by marine mammals and birds.

Overfishing — by which Jackson and his colleagues mean excessive hunting of marine mammals and reptiles as well as fish — does not just destroy the animals we eat.

In mammals, daily rhythms such as sleep, hormone cycles and eating patterns are guided by a master clock in the brain whose rhythms are maintained in part by genes and patterns of light and darkness.

Most previously discovered Jurassic mammals were miniature mice that probably dodged the footsteps of dinosaurs by eating insects and worms at night.

As the first mammal able to eat plants, Luo says Agilodocodon scansorius broke «a very important barrier», because plants were more abundant than the insects eaten by other early mammals.

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

The researchers tracked twilight snacking by examining the mammals» whiskers: When otters eat, the nutrients enter their bloodstreams and ultimately flow into the cells that produce whiskers.

As small omnivores and herbivores, Captorhinus and its relatives had to scrounge for food while avoiding being preyed upon by large meat - eating amphibians and ancient relatives of mammals.

Analysis of tooth enamel suggests Ardi ate nuts, fruits, and tubers, supplemented by small mammals and bird eggs.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

bushmeat Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.

Plague is often transmitted by fleas, but cats can be infected by eating the meat of infected animals (often small mammals).

They catch / kill and sometimes eat many small mammals and birds though they are well fed by their owners.

How the virus gets into mammals isn't clear; they may become infected by eating contaminated birds or coming into contact with their bodily fluids.

Their peaceful migration northwards was interrupted by a pod of «transient killer whales», the type of orca that mainly eats other marine mammals.

Pacific white - sided dolphins are preyed upon by transient (mammal - eating) orca whales and in some parts of their range by large sharks.

I don't think «Edgelings» consciously choose to be this way - like every other mammal out there, they just want to get on with their business without being eaten by wolves.

End up in the oceans where they are eaten by birds, mammals and it kills millions of them / year 3.

Preferred habitat: Coastal woods, swamps, boggy streams + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: almost evergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 20 feet + + + + Wildlife value: leaves favored by deer; berry - like seeds eaten by many bird species and small mammals; leaves are used in bird nest building