Sentences with phrase «few mammals»

But at that point, we're encouraged to switch to cow's milk, even though few mammals drink milk past infancy.

The find, described yesterday in Scientific Reports, is important because few mammal tracks from that era have survived.

The coastline is changing, there is more erosion and storms, and there are fewer mammals like polar bears.

Humans are among the very few mammals that can not make their own vitamin C, so most fresh animal meat contains traces of it — just enough to postpone the worst effects of scurvy for quite some time.

Some of these animals crossed a land bridge from what is today Alaska to eastern Siberia — and that meant they were living, even thriving, at latitudes where few mammals can now subsist.

Apart from bats, dolphins, whales, rats and shrews — which use calls in the audible range — few mammals echolocate as vision is usually more efficient.

Anyone familiar with the complex social systems of these aquatic mammals will appreciate the degree of suffering these creatures will endure in violent deaths and for the lucky few mammals which escape the nets or harpoons to live on separated from their pods.

Imprinting, a behavior characteristic of some birds and a very few mammals, involves rapid learning of recognition by a young bird or animal exposed to a conspecific or an object or organism that behaves suitably.

In total, there are 532 species of blood sucking lice and each species parasitizes one or just a few mammal species.

Cats» sense of taste is not so impressive, though: They're one of the few mammals that lack taste receptors for sweetness, according to a 2006 study.

In all but a few mammal species, females will have multiple partners.

Only a few mammals sport blue skin.

The same is true for prairie voles, one of the few mammals that form long - term monogamous pairs.

Only a few mammals and some birds are as long - lived as humans, and many of these species share interesting characteristics in how they age.

Aside from humans, horses are one of the few mammals that thermoregulate by sweating.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

This creature has always been considered an oddity because it's one of the few mammals that lays eggs and nurses its young through its abdominal skin, rather than with nipples.