Sentences with phrase «for dead carcasses»

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Parasite avoidance is also a likely reason why the carcasses of herbivores are rapidly scavenged by other animals, whereas dead carnivores are not and why the latter end up providing more nutrients for invertebrates and vegetation.

If you see a bear feeding on a dead elk in a film, you can be pretty sure that the bear was hired from a game farm and is looking for sweets hidden in the carcass by the film - makers.

One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

While most of the ecological research on decomposition looks at plant litter, DeBruyn and her colleagues argue that the decomposition of carcasses — say, of a dead antelope on the African plain — may also have important implications for nutrient cycling in the larger landscape.

Their final roars before death are like candy for the player's ears as you rush to cut rare resources off their dead carcasses.

When a man sees things for their essential literalness, how is sawing off the head of a dead father figure so different from separating a succulent turkey leg from the carcass?

Can we start a petition for Sega to stop kicking the dead, rigormortis - stiffened carcass of the lovable mascot we loved so much as children?

For her series Actus Reus, New York City - based artist Tamara Kostianovsky recreated dead animal carcasses out of discarded fabric and clothing, turning the harshness of slaughtered livestock into plush, easier to visually swallow cuts of meat.

He would bring dead fowl and rabbits, and carcasses of beef, into his studio to use as subjects for his paintings.

The artist Chaim Soutine's still life paintings of animals, what I prefer to call his carcass paintings, can be unsettling, especially given the fact that Soutine was known to have never worked from memory, but rather used live, or dead, models for all his works.