Sentences with phrase «for animal populations»

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The change in animal population, and mission, required the merged organization to revise and create new protocols to better and more efficiently care for both animal populations.

But for animal populations, they can be devastating.

A cheaper, faster method of sterilization is considered a holy grail for animal population control.

For the animal care professional, it is essential to consider all types of disasters when developing a plan for your animal population.

Additionally, the shelter medicine specialist must have an expanded understanding of other areas not emphasized under traditional veterinary medical training; these include, but are not limited to, shelter facility design and operation, animal husbandry (nutrition, sanitation, disinfection), companion animal welfare, cruelty investigation, public health, personnel management, psycho - social aspects of sheltering, resource management and risk analysis, and strategies for animal population control.

HTA promotes a cooperative relationship between traditional veterinary medicine and holistic health care providing the best healing care for our animal population.

In almost all cases, spaying or neutering your pet really is the best choice - for you, for your pet, and for the animal population as a whole.

Not exact matches

because your understand of science eclipses that of the god of the bible, gone would be the stone age morality — slavery, animal sacrifice, destroying whole segments of populations for absolutely insane reasons - at least I hope it would be better:)

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

[23] «Research trapping» refers to the capture of animals for study or population surveys.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

Increasing breeding infrastructure: current requirement of artificial insemination doses for entire milch animal population is more than 740 million, against that merely 10 % semen doses are available.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

This stimulated micro-invertebrate populations, which support wetland and riverine food webs, increasing food resources for fish, frogs, turtles, waterbirds and other animals.

With 11.2 % of Australia's population now vegetarian, and Australia being the world's third - fastest - growing vegan market, the desire for animal - free packaged foods is changing what consumers select from the retail shelf.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

How possible is it, after all, to pay pittance for a burger or a frozen bag of chicken nuggets and expect it to consist of anything but the leftover scraps of animals that, unless minced and squashed together to resemble something far from what it once was, would be completely and utterly stomach - turning to the majority of the population.

For the fourth time, Shedd Aquarium, a leader in animal care and conservation, has teamed up with the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirFor the fourth time, Shedd Aquarium, a leader in animal care and conservation, has teamed up with the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirfor the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirds.

HSUS's issues are probably a natural for social networking sites, since they involve animal protection, something in which a broad swath of the sites» populations would be interested.

Efforts to protect wildlife, for instance, have brought animal populations perilously near to human settlements: Beaver dams cause floods, deer carry tick infestations, geese get sucked into plane turbines.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).

In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

But if you look at distemper — canine distemper and feline distemper had been decimating lion populations for years and years and years, and it's from domestic animals infecting wild populations.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

«Future researchers should continue to explore the human - animal bond for older adult populations, particularly for those with cognitive, physical, and financial limitations.

«We need a better network to look in animal populations for emerging infectious agents, with 21st - century technology,» he says.

This sensitivity is especially important for a variety of wildlife forensic applications: identifying («matching») individuals, assigning paternity, and determining whether an animal belongs to a protected population.

She could then move on to bioluminescence as a tool for locating and mapping various populations of animals and observing how they overlap.

Actually, however, the money is necessary to study the animals and keep their population healthy in accordance with federal law, not to mention that bears undoubtedly pay for themselves.

«Understanding animals» movement patterns and the encounters they bring about is a key step in characterizing a population's mating system and essential for determining how behavior both facilitates and is subject to sexual selection,» explained Kamath, a postdoctoral scholar in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

Boosting these fish populations offers not only much - needed animal protein for the local community but also an unprecedented source of income.

Sought after for their horns, white rhinos saw their population fall to 100 animals in South Africa by 1910, and only 2,410 black rhinos remained there in 1995.

The results have implications both for researchers trying to understand the rapid decline in frog populations across the globe and for conservationists looking to save the animals, said Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study.

«It is ideal to house monkeys together for their social welfare, but we also need to consider the fertility of these animals, which is typically high, and be able to make responsible decisions on population size» explains Angela Colagross - Schouten, lead veterinarian on the project.

This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animafor conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animaFor instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

«This is the first transgenic [animal] to have true benefit for the consumer,» says Bill Muir, a population geneticist and environmental risk assessor of transgenics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The finding, experts say, has implications for conservation management, which often solely focuses on the number of animals in a population, and may extend to chimpanzees, dolphins, whales, and other species.

The die - off, which has subsided after claiming as many as 20,000 victims, is another blow to the long - term prospects for the Caspian seal, a population of around 400,000 animals that is listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction.

The study found that less than one third of the 175 parks and reserves examined are currently conserving lions at more than 50 % of their «carrying capacity» — an ecological term for the natural population levels animals reach if human threats are minimal.

Mice, rabbit and foxes traverse farmland while other animals graze, all with the potential to become vectors for the resistant bacteria organisms and spread it throughout different animal populations,» said Pat Millner, a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist based in Maryland.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

Dr Martin Stevens from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus said: «As far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgrounds.

To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

«For marine animal populations to thrive and support sustainable fisheries, the males and females of each species need to reach sexual maturity, and deliver their eggs and sperm in the right place and at the right time.

In the traditional scenario for speciation, a population of animals becomes isolated from others of its kind, say by being blown onto a far - off desert island like one of the Galápagos.

Biologists have looked at the sex ratio in animal populations for generations, typically just by counting the males and females in a pack or herd.