Sentences with phrase «feed on animals»

Golden eagles, which are natural competitors of other birds of prey, do not primarily feed on these animals and were able to colonize the islands in the early 1990s.

Pets can also spread the plague to people indirectly, because their fleas can pick up the bacteria when they feed on the animals, and spread the bacteria to people through flea bites, according to the CDC.

Fleas are tiny, darkish brown, creepy - crawlies which feed on animals by sucking their blood.

by Nicola Parry, DVM Ticks are parasites that need to feed on animals to survive.

Adult fleas that feed on animals treated with lufenuron produce sterile eggs.

The tick has various life stages, several of which feed on animals.

Fleas will continue to feed on those animals untreated, thereby creating a bigger colony inside (and outside) your home.

The new research may also give scientists insight into predators who feed on the animals that live in the mesopelagic zone.

She says mice and chipmunks are critical reservoirs for the two pathogens, so ticks that have fed on these animals are more likely to be co-infected.

But the experts doubt that future analysis of the Thames whale will show high levels of pollutants as this species generally feeds on animals near the bottom of the food chain — such as squid.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

Throughout history, pirates and whalers have fed on the animals, and introduced pest species like goats to the islands, destroying the tortoises» habitat.

The ticks that fed on animals were crushed and inspected by direct fluorescence assay (DFA) for B. burgdorferi, described below.

If fewer than 50 % of ticks (10) fed on each animal, more infected ticks were added to achieve a 50 % feeding rate.

Some aspects of nomadic life may be hard for children to watch (e.g., vultures feed on an animal carcass, children are separated from their parents), but these are not in the context of any gratuitous violence or sinister character.

Fleas feed on animal blood and they will cause tiny, red and swollen bite marks.

When a mosquito feeds on an animal, larval forms of heartworms are injected into the animal.

The fleas get the tapeworms by feeding on animals that are infected with them and ingesting the larvae.

Another tantalizing possibility is an insect growth regulator that can be ingested by a cat or dog in pet food, sabotaging the hormones of fleas that feed on the animal's blood.

Transmission occurs when a mosquito takes a blood meal from an infected animal and then feeds on another animal.

Parasites ingest the drug when they feed on the animal's blood.

Ticks feed on an animal's blood and can transmit a variety of diseases in their host.

Fleas feed on their animal hosts, but spend most of their time off the animal.

Not exact matches

Soybeans gained on speculation that government measures to revive economies may bolster demand for food, animal feed and biofuels.

While Judaism contains the oldest known humane limits on the use of animals (e.g., harming an animal is punishable, slaughter must be painless, they must be fed before one's children, they are to rest on the Sabbath, etc.), it does not eliminate animals for use as food, manufacture, or for ritual.

There would be a mass die off of animals once the ark landed because most of the animals feed on others, and with only two of which, the prey would be annihilated very quickly, and the predatory then would starve.

The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

They must have — plus they could have fed a lot of other animals a nice egg breakfast on the Sabbath.

Just a feeding trough for the animals and hay to lay on.

, on the whole planet (greenhouse gases, disposal of manure, clearing of whole woods just to get enough farmland to feed the animals we eat, etc.) is huge!

We are to model our lives after Christ, the Son of God, who though he was God's very equal, came to earth, was born in an animal's feeding stall and died on a cross.

For one, a patch of land can provide a full and balanced diet for more people if the people eat the food that grows on it rather than feed the food to an animal and then eat the animal.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

Then WHY waste time arguing how many animals were on board and how to feed them??

next, in order to make identification easier, these subhumans should be required to wear an identification badge on their clothing, say a pink triangle... If society is going to feed these animals they should be put to productive work in their compounds, a cheerful slogan would help to keep up their morale... say» work will make you free»... Finally I disagree with the good pastor regarding the time it would take for this subculture to die out... God gave us brains for a reason... I believe there exists a chemical, zyklon b or some such that would be helpful in this regard...

She looks to Psalm 104, which depicts God feeding the wild animals, as evidence for her position: «Praise for divine hospitality and for the centrality of animals to the whole picture of life on Earth is central to the vision of this psalm.»

My favorite of course is ask most mainstream christians some simple questions like, «So you believe that the earth was created in seven days», «so noah gathered every animal on earth and stuck them inside a small boat for 40 days without fresh water and food to feed everything and you think this actually happened?»

Then there are predatory animals that feed on the herbivores, known as carnivores.

Animals feed on plants and are known as herbivores or consumers.

There's a lot of theories on how Noah fed the animals.

Consider yourself blessed if you can get your hands on livers coming from grass - fed or free - range animals.

As someone who respects animals, it is essential for me to support farmers that employ humane farming practices by letting their animals roam on pasture, feeding them what they are naturally meant to eat and treating them with respect and gratitude.

Factory farmed meats on the other hand have a higher ratio of omega - 6s which can cause inflammation because the animals are usually fed grains like GMO corn and soy.

Andrew comments that the seed companies in England don't even mention the nutritional values of the grains intended for human consumption on the product sheets, though it is listed on the product sheets for grains intended for use as animal feed.

If you want dairy made from happy grass - eating cows and sheep and goats, you're going to need to spend a little more than you would on dairy from animals fed on industrial corn.

For every 100 calories fed to animals, we only receive 12 calories back by chowing down on their flesh and their milk.

Huber, Machteld; Coulier, Leon; Wopereis, Suzan; Savelkoul, Huub; Nierop, Dré and Hoogenboom, Ron (2012) Enhanced catch - up growth after a challenge in animals on organic feed.

«One example is that animals feed on grass,» Benny says.

Animals raised naturally on organic, free - range pastures that feed on grass and seeds are very healthy.

In addition, antibiotics (often added to feed in powdered form) are routinely used on all animals as a preventive measure.