Sentences with phrase «even wild relatives»
Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning
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«Despite their potential value in meeting the challenges of modern agriculture, few systematic, range - wide collections of wild relatives exist for any crop species,» the team of scientists write, «and even the available wild genetic resources are widely under - utilized for crop improvement.»
And crop wild relatives are possibly even more vulnerable because they've tended to be overlooked both by agricultural scientists and the conservation community.
Even though crop species have been moved all over the world, he says the historic home ranges of many crops are still relevant because wild relatives persist there.
Even though domestic plants usually appear radically different from their wild relatives, they are often still able to interbreed.
It's time to bury the pejorative «wild west» metaphor for choice programs that are only «wild» relative to other, even more hamstrung regimes.
Domestic cats, some wild cats and their relatives — civets, genets and mongooses — purr, and even hyenas, raccoons and guinea pigs can purr.