Sentences with phrase «for sea animals»

Antarctica's beaches are breeding grounds for sea animals and sea birds during breeding season.

In August we wrote about how Seattle was going to fight for sea animals by going strawless in September.

They're plentiful in the ocean, with an estimated biomass of 379 - million tons (a biomass significantly larger than humans» estimated 100 - million tons), and they're a popular meal item for sea animals like whales, birds and other fish, placing them solidly at the bottom of the ocean's food chain.

Not exact matches

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

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It's not at all unusual for animals to try and protect their own species, but nearly 90 percent of humpback whale rescue missions involve smaller animals like seals, sea lions and small whales.

Bible believers accept that God wrote on stone tablets with His finger, an Ark that was magically filled with animals, a sea that magically parted, a talking donkey, a woman turning into salt for looking at a city, a polygamous Abraham / David / Solomon, and some Jonah guy living in a whale.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

The same God who created this universe, life, and humans, saved Noah's family and the animals, brought his people out of slavery in Egypt, parted the red sea, fed them for 40 years in the wilderness, gave them the land he promised, and made them a great people.

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

Engles» approach to building design promotes the «hedonistic sustainability» that God has commissioned for mankind since the beginning: «Then God said, «Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.»»

Islam, for hygienic reasons and in order to form kind and good habits, forbids Muslims to eat pork, animals dead by themselves, animals not killed by Muslims, blood, food given to gods, snakes, poultry which eats meat, and sea food not shaped like a fish, and forbids smoking, drinking, and the use of narcotics.

Apol... I know my reasoning is valid because snakes can't talk, 600 year old men can't build a boat and float 2 of every animal on the planet around for a year, the Red Sea can't part, men can't rise from the dead, and a host of other nonsense that Christians believe just can't happen.

Thus, when the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued Sea....

By sea, plane or by road, long distance transport is inherently stressful for animals and exposes them to risks of injury and illness at every stage of the process.

And, of course, the positives for animals are obvious as they would no longer be subjected to long sea journeys, only to face fully conscious slaughter in countries with no effective laws in place to protect them from cruelty.

For pretend play shumee gives you a collection of toys ranging from real looking pizzas & Strawberry Cakes to train tracks & doll houses to fire trucks & safari trucks with props to Sea World animals & kitchen pretend set.

Perfect for any kid who loves animals, dinosaurs or sea creatures ANIA Animal figurines from TOMY inspire creative play and love for nature for kids ages 3 +.

Off - shore mining from natural shoals is known to reduce habitat for sea ducks and other animals.

Initially, I was drawn to the center because it was gender neutral (a good buy if you plan on keeping it for more than one kiddo), sea creature themed (we love animals), and made by Baby Einstein (what's not to love?).

That's why two members of our Animal Response Team were at the Alaska SeaLife Center, in Seward, recently, contributing to around - the - clock care for a rescued — and adorable — sea otter pup

Quinn is a lawyer for a wildlife nonprofit and works every day to protect endangered animals in Oregon — like wolves, orcas, and sea otters.

That's why two members of our Animal Response Team were at the Alaska SeaLife Center, in Seward, recently, contributing to 24 - hour care for a rescued sea otter pup.

In fact, the so - called unicorns of the sea (for their iconic head tusks) may produce the most refined sonar of any living animal.

Diving with Steller sea lions is like playing rugby with a 500 - pound, 7 - foot animal that just doesn't have any respect for one's personal boundaries.

«Up to now, such long - lasting locomotive activity had been reported only for animals living in the sea,» says Felix Liechti of the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach.

Species targeted include the polar bear, already under threat due to climate change: Shrinking sea ice makes it harder for the animals to hunt seals, their main food source.

Mesopelagic fish serve as a food source for a large variety of marine animals, including tuna, swordfish, dolphins, seals and sea birds.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

«We are in awe that an animal that spends most of its time on the surface of sea ice could swim constantly for so long in water so cold.»

This approach allowed them to create a metabolic index for each species, which sets clearly defined limits for oxygen - breathing sea life: «Marine animals like eelpouts, rock crabs and Atlantic cod can only survive in environments with enough oxygen for them to increase their metabolism to between two and five times their resting metabolic rate if need be.

SEA LION 911: Staff and volunteers cover a range of more than 600 square miles, locating and transporting stranded, sick or injured animals to the center for care.

More animals will lose suitable habitat than will gain it, with those animals especially adapted to the coldest water on Earth (for example in the Weddell and Ross Sea) losing out the most.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

Plankton are literally at the bottom of the food chain, a source of nourishment for virtually every animal in the sea.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

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The new study found that the species then rose from less than 90,000 animals in 1975 to an estimated 281,450 in 2008, which was roughly the carrying capacity for sea lions in the California Current Ecosystem at that time.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

New research indicates that for loggerhead sea turtles in the Northwest Atlantic, the number of returning nesting females in the population and favorable climate conditions in the year or two prior to the nesting year are strongly related to the number of nests produced by these animals in a given year.

Studying animals that show similar hemispheric biases for their own vocalization — like primates, sea lions and horses — could reveal important clues about how ancient language - processing mechanisms are, she adds: «Evolutionarily, this could go far beyond primates to a common ancestor for all mammals.

Sea lions may even prove useful for testing to treat or prevent epilepsy, he says: «I'm impressed by how the investigators contended successfully with the limitations and constraints of experimenting with wild animals.»

Twenty - mile castaway fishnets snare sea turtles, dolphins, and other animals, endangering their populations; birds mistake trash for food, eat it, and die; jellyfish get sick; gnarly junk washes back to shore — some of it hazardous waste.

Then he let in the sea lion being tested and timed how long it took for each animal to find the fish from one day to the next.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

But little is known on how sound affects invertebrates, which account for the largest number of animals in the sea.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

Most of us have a hugely distorted view of the seas: We look mostly at the shore while the real action happens far out beyond the horizon, where hardy animals built for speed and endurance traverse the open waters.