Sentences with phrase «for zoologists»

It would be absurd for a zoologist to start reasoning a priori about theproperties of certain animals; a zoologist must go and observe the animals he is studying.

«It was effectively a paradise for a zoologist, and then over the course of a decade we were getting less and less in our traps, until by about 2000, 2010, we were coming back with almost nothing.»

Not exact matches

There's an apparent ban on Bushes (except for Guy L. Bush, a zoologist from Michigan State).

Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

One of those destroyers of unity for Adams was the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel.

I am speaking here as a zoologist, specifically a geneticist, who has been concerned with the implications of his field for the philosophy of science.

For though Darwin's particular theory of biological evolution was destined to undergo changes and modifications in the hands of successive biologists and zoologists (and with this we are not here concerned), there can be no going back to the simple Biblical picture of origins which was commonly held before Darwin.

Cockscomb was the idea of Alan Rabinowitz, an American zoologist who spent years by himself deep in the Belizean jungles, charting the behavior of the jaguar for the New York Zoological Society.

But that premise often looks at creatures within a limited size range, says Myriam Hirt, a zoologist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.

For most zoologists, fieldwork involves lying low and watching quietly as animals wander by.

Koepfli and Wayne suspect that zoologists had mistaken African and Eurasian golden jackals for the same species because of a high degree of similarity in their skull and tooth morphology.

That's why Bill Sellers, a computational zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK, has developed a new technique for simulating dinosaur movement and working out which gaits they most likely used.

One advocate for its use is Donald Roberts, a medical zoologist recently retired from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, which collaborates with conservative think tanks.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

This finding puts a new slant on a debate that has raged among zoologists for years.

For decades, zoologists had suspected that marine mammals such as seals and sea lions collapse their lungs to withstand water pressures and endure deep dives.

The offshore bird's secret, revealed for the first time in May by zoologists at Iowa State University, is in the storm petrel's telomeres, repetitive bits of DNA that sit on the ends of the chromosomes in each cell like protective caps.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

Highlights include a look at preserved animal specimens that zoologists and other scientists are still analyzing and a visit to the department's room - size walk - in freezer, where everything from new items for an upcoming exhibition to elephant skins are kept.

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

Among the biologists voicing dismay, zoologist Ferdinando Boero of University of Lecce wrote an open letter to Maiani questioning de Mattei's fitness for vice-president of CNR.

Louis Guillette, a zoologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been studying alligators in Florida for decades.

The study's lead authors, Timothy Higham at the University of California, Riverside, and Anthony Russell at the University of Calgary, Canada, both zoologists, brought Niklas into the project for his expertise on plant biomechanics.

«Hungry bears don't just lie down — they go looking for an alternate food source,» says zoologist Ian Stirling at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

«People were willing to give me equipment — I just had to ask for it,» exclaims Greg Kelly, a zoologist at the University of Western Ontario who ended up walking away with, among other things, two centrifuges.

Venus may be far too hostile an environment for plants and animals but it now boasts a crater named after a distinguished botanist and a zoologist.

For parasites that want to evade these defenders, there's a «continuous arms race,» says Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, a zoologist at the University of Oxford, U.K. Parasites have evolved various ways to avoid scrutiny from the host's immune system, and most have adapted exquisitely to one host.

The quest for dolphin - speed understanding began with zoologist Sir James Gray in 1936.

Its heart is two - and - a-half times as big as zoologists would expect for an animal of its size.

To conduct the research, Elise Huchard, a zoologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Montpellier, France, and colleagues examined a group of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia over a 9 - year period.

Biography: Tim McClanahan is a Senior Conservation Zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he has worked for the past 15 years.

For these reasons, zoologists are

Daniel Bruhl is brilliantly convincing as the genuinely diabolical Dr. Lutz Heck, soon to be infamous as Hitler's own zoologist who wanted to use the remaining zoo animals in Warsaw for selective breeding experiments back in Berlin.

Experiencing great empathy for zoo animals, he went on to become a world - renowned zoologist and conservationist.

It's kind of like Amazon subbing out the Kindle store to a company — let's call them Monkey Brain Books — that sells Kindles to inner city zoologists and decides to put their brand name on the existing Kindle ebook store that's been around for years, and redo the apps to say Monkey Brain Books.

As zoologists gain more experience, opportunities for advanced positions can open up, allowing for career advancement.

The majority of zoologists conducts research and teaches at colleges and universities, while others work for federal agencies that have a concern for wildlife.

A career as a zoologist can be very rewarding for those who like large cats, with the job entailing the study of interactions and habits of living animals.

Zoologists often work for federal agencies or as professors at colleges and universities where they teach about the research they have conducted.

«Bird nutrition has always been a controversial issue among aviculturists, but over the past 40 years, great advances in avian nutrition has occurred,» says Ron Reid, zoologist / nutritionist manager for Vitakraft Sunseed in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Zoologist Kristofer Helgen is a National Geographic Explorer who has led research expeditions to remote areas on almost every continent in his search for undiscovered species.

We present a special interview with Michael Najjar, the first artist to fly into space, the scientific - artistic mission at The Institute of Critical Zoologists in Japan, and carry an extensive interview with Peter Weibel, director at the ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.

Art Radar spoke to Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui, shortlisted for the Prudential Eye Art Awards 2016 in the photography category, about his work and the fictitious Institute of Critical Zoologists.

Published in 1917 by the mathematical biologist, zoologist and Classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860 - 1948), it quickly became a reference for artists as well as scientists.

Even back in the 1970s, polar bears that spent the summer and early fall on the sea ice did not eat very often and some probably didn't eat at all Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford, zoologist (blogging at http://www.polarbearscience.com) We hear endlessly about the polar bears «forced» to go without food for months because...

If you task me to choose between the DSM and a zoologist turned into an intellectual entrepreneur known for his lack of due diligence in psychology, Matt, I hope you do not mind me for sticking with the mainstream scientific conception of delusion:

In the foreword to the Royal Society's brochure for its newly launched Science Policy Centre in 2010, zoologist, Baron John Krebs, said,

But modern medicine has a backup plan: German zoologists are keeping stem cells from the aye - aye frozen for their potential in cloning projects.

The question baffled zoologists for decades, but now the first study to track the saltwater - loving reptiles on these long journeys has revealed that, in fact, the crocodiles don't swim much at all.

The reality is rather different, as Dr Crockford, a Canadian zoologist and polar bear expert, summarized in a recent paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.