Sentences with phrase «for salamanders»

My 8 - year - old commented, «I can't believe how much Katie's life changed,» and my younger child has begged to search for salamanders on the first night of spring rain.

The intrepid scientists will choose a path based on the areas most suitable for salamanders within the expedition route of the original collector.

Building fairy houses under the canopy of the beech trees, turning over logs to look for salamanders, and harvesting fresh vegetables for snacks from our gardens are just a few of the ways that children engage all their senses.

The work opens up new possibilities for the salamander's conservation and also for using so - called environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor animals that live where humans just can't go.

«The frog was really small, which may have made it easier for the salamander to catch it,» he adds.

Stephanie hails from East Tennessee, the global center for salamander diversity.

Stephanie hails from East Tennessee, the global center for salamander diversity.

Not exact matches

Place the frittata under the broiler or salamander for a quick 1 - 2 minutes until slightly golden brown, watch at all times to avoid burning, and you'll have the so desirable crusty top.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

We monitor vernal pools that are obligate habitat for a number of salamanders and frogs and have a program to restore and create vernal pools on our sanctuaries.

Join us for a night of costumed characters and lantern - lit trails as we celebrate the annual spring migration of salamanders and tree frogs back to the vernal pools where they were born.

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

If they go extinct in the wild, this could spell bad news for research on these remarkable regenerating salamanders.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Fragmented habitat will make it hard for frogs and salamanders to move to new homes as the climate changes

Studies of chimpanzees, monkeys, newborn chicks, salamanders and even honeybees point to two parallel systems for representing quantities.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

And a planned dam, Xiaonanhai, that would be built in the middle of the last remaining untouched habitat of the Yangtze sturgeon, giant salamander and 66 other fish species of concern, says Yan Xie, China Program director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Conservation International scientist Dr. Robin Moore launched a six - month, 21 - country effort to search for frogs, toads and salamanders that hadn't been documented in decades.

That's why Conservation International scientist Dr. Robin Moore launched a six - month, 21 - country effort to search for frogs, toads and salamanders that hadn't been documented in decades.

The 7 months represent a record for frozen vertebrates, and while Siberian salamanders have lived through -30 °C temperatures for shorter durations, those salamanders did not have as good a survival rate as the wood frogs.

Since the fungal disease has initially been limited to a small area, an attempt is being made to prevent it from spreading further: The European Union has launched a research project to create the scientific basis for the control of the «devourer of salamanders» as quickly as possible.

The researchers who go in search of the Turkestanian salamander have their work cut out for them.

For this reason, both Switzerland and the United States preventively prohibited the import of salamanders and newts.

Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»

Lips and her colleagues hope to establish a surveillance network to monitor wild salamander and newt populations for signs of the fungus.

The fungus, nicknamed Bs, for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, came to the attention of science during baffling die - offs of rare fire salamanders in the Netherlands.

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

He is standing over a salamander tank on a traditional Xochimilco farm plot, or chinampa, that is used as an educational facility for tourists.

But an increasing number of scientists are exploring molecular cues that could allow humans to regrow arms and legs the same way starfish or salamander can replace their limbs or tails (click here for a time - lapse video).

Visit www.irreplaceablewild.org for more information about the show's schedule and the campaign, and also for online photos of the Ozark zigzag salamander and other at - risk species.

Because funding for research on amphibians and reptiles was scarce, they spent several years researching infectious diseases of poultry and pigs, while working on turtles and salamanders after hours.

The team concluded that Bsal and salamanders probably have coexisted in Asia for millions of years.

Although this wouldn't remove all the fish, for a few hundred thousand dollars it might give the salamanders a window in which to re-establish themselves.

Last year the United States banned imports of 201 species of salamander to guard against Bsal, and Canada did so for all species in May.

They hope it will not be a death watch for the smiling salamander.

Encouragingly, a consortium of European pet trade organizations said in April that it supported quarantines and testing of imported salamanders for Bsal.

Salamanders are particularly good organisms for studying how locomotion onto land evolved, as their anatomy and ecology is similar to the earliest tetrapods.

Further, the aerial hearing of lungfish and salamanders suggests the first land animals heard well enough in air to provide a functional steppingstone for the evolution of the middle ear.

He ponders nighttime oddities of nature, such as the Texas blind salamander, a cave - dwelling semitranslucent amphibian that has no need for night vision — a trait that it apparently shares with about 40 percent of Americans, who, being bombarded with light pollution, never use theirs.

Over half of salamander species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature — 282 out of 560 — fall under a Threatened category.

This extends the known range of the vulnerable salamanders and raises hopes for their long - term monitoring and conservation.

Salamanders are critical in nutrient cycling, for example.

But for other species, like the black salamander, a changing climate produces new pockets of habitat to the north, but they don't ever overlap the salamander's current or future range in the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving the animals stranded.

Higher vertebrates like mammals generally have a diminished capacity for tissue regeneration compared with lower vertebrates like fish and salamanders.

The black - bellied slender salamander, for instance, would have no problem spreading from its home range around Santa Barbara to the more northern central coast region.

And although American salamanders, the most diverse population in the world, have been faring well in comparison, scientists are now bracing for an extraordinary threat: an Asian chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bsal.

«These findings show that tissue regeneration in African spiny mice is similar to that described for other vertebrate regenerators like salamanders and zebrafish, giving us a powerful framework to understand mammalian regeneration,» said Seifert.

But one thing's for sure, the discovery means rewriting textbooks to add salamanders to a short list of organisms, including coral and bacteria, that form symbiotic relationships with plants.

The fungus is thought to have arrived in Europe via salamanders or newts imported from Asia for the pet trade.