Sentences with phrase «from herbivorous»

If we have rabbits, this poses a problem for us: are these pieces of produce safe even if they aren't technically plants, or should we keep them far away from our herbivorous pets?

Another theory is that wild dogs would roll in animal carcasses or the droppings from herbivorous animals, in order to disguise their own smell from prey when hunting.

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A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

As a result, the researchers suspect that the predatory theropods came from the mainland in order to hunt the herbivorous Europasaurus.

Numerous fossilized species were examined in the study — from the earliest amphibians to the largest herbivorous dinosaurs and mammoths.

By observing reef communities in Fiji's Votua Marine Reserve, Rasher and his team discovered that sharks do in fact influence plant growth on the reefs — by scaring the herbivorous fish away from eating them.

Angst et al. conducted carbon isotope analysis on fossils of Gastornis and several contemporaneous herbivorous mammals across several European sites and compared these to isotope profiles from extant birds with known diets.

Farrell analyzed highly conserved DNA sequences from 115 species of the herbivorous beetle subfamilies, sampling up to six species from each, to create a phylogenetic tree showing the likely evolutionary relationships of today's beetles and when they diverged from common ancestors.

Prairie dogs are herbivorous rodents of the squirrel family, and forage aboveground from dawn until dusk.

Aphids, which are herbivorous, provide ants with molasses as food in exchange of hygienic care and protection from predators.

It further shows that some docodontans had a diet with a substantial herbivorous component, distinctive from the faunivorous diets previously reported in other members of this clade.

When herbivorous insects ingest these glycosylated toxins while feeding on plants, sugar - cleaving gut enzymes called glycosidases cleave these sugars from the defensive substances and the toxins are released in the midgut.

The long - necked and herbivorous Dreadnoughtus schrani, whose name means «fears nothing,» measured 85 feet (26 meters) in length from the tip of its small head to the end of its tail and weighed 65 tons — about seven times heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex, said Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who led the excavation.

Later herbivorous mammals evolved similar complex teeth, despite not being directly descended from the haramiyids — a striking example of convergent evolution.

If our digestive tract was designed for a solely herbivorous diet we would have an enzyme to break down cellulose, either produced directly from the gut lining or glands or from microorganisms strategically placed to enable absorption of the derived nutrients - we havn't such anatomy or physiology.

We, as primarily herbivorous humans, get most of our micronutrients from plant sources.

While people can benefit from large amounts of fruit (we're largely herbivorous), our dogs are closer to the carnivorous side of the spectrum, so they should consume smaller amounts of plant foods.

The main benefit hay offers to the health of herbivorous pets comes from its high fiber content.

In a well - studied example from Alaskan kelp forests, [24] sea otters (Enhydra lutris) control populations of herbivorous sea urchins through predation.