Sentences with word «grazer»

A grazer is an animal that eats small amounts of food throughout the day by grazing on plants. Full definition
Embrace Snacks This is for all the mothers of grazers out there - it's OK if your kid will only eat snacks, Waldman says.
Though we did not find a full trophic cascade in our systems, previous research has shown increased floating algae decreases the availability of light to the attached algae below, thus decreasing the abundance of important resources for grazers like tadpoles and snails.
Dry cat food seems to work best for grazers (i.e., cats who like to eat throughout the day).
For example dark J Brand flares, a leather jacket, heavy scarf & knee - high boots for winter or light denim skinny ankle grazer jeans, a belt to cinch in my waist & pumps for spring.
Rain - on - snow events have been linked to die - offs of arctic grazers such as musk ox and elk since the 1970s in Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, and Siberia.
The stately giraffe, whose head sits some 16 feet up atop an unlikely pedestal, adapted his long neck to compete for foliage with other grazers.
«Pressures from grazers hastens ecosystem collapse from drought: Experiments show grazing pressures compound drought stress, delay recovery.»
There are a percentage of non-stop grazers out there who rarely go an hour without eating or drinking something.
Ledi - Geraru hosted a different fauna just 200,000 years later, with grazers such as gazelles, zebras, wild pigs, and a baboon at home in open grasslands like the Serengeti.
That disruption can at least double methylmercury concentrations in microscopic grazers called zooplankton, researchers report January 27 in Science Advances.
He explained that the goats compete aggressively with native grazers for vegetation, and that they monopolize springs, effectively driving the shy rock wallabies away from their only water source.
I also keep a lot of other snack options — I'm an all - day grazer!
Kids have become grazers, expecting a near - constant supply of juice boxes and crackers.
And by providing additional refuge from predators, fleshy seaweeds that drift in and out of seagrass beds can maintain larger grazer populations and enhance their positive impact on seagrass.»
Instead, the experiment yielded bloom of algae, which was readily and rapidly eaten by microscopic grazers.
The dinosaur is named Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, which means ancient grazer of the Colville River.
Global warming could cut arctic grazers — such as these reindeer on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen — off from their dinner.
If conservationists relax their guard, the species could suffer the fate of its wild ancestors, perishing under competitive pressure from domestic grazers and being devoured by starving Russians.
«Tiny grazers play key role in marine ecosystem health.»
Just as grass is the staple food of earth animals, diatoms are the food of the ocean or fresh water grazers.
Remember, though, that dry food is not a meat protein like a lizard or mouse, and since it contains large amounts of carbohydrates (and often less fat) than real prey, we are essentially turning our cats into grazers.
Most normal inseams will be an ankle grazer length on me which I actually really enjoy for spring.
But the report shows that the loss of parrotfishes and other seaweed - eating grazers has been far more important than climate change for Caribbean reef destruction so far.
«Fulani herdsmen, nomadic cattle grazers, have been named one of the deadliest terror groups in the world comparable to Boko Haram, ISIS, the Taliban and al - Shabaab.
Obviously too many grazers on a plain of grass will create an impact eventually, but herbivores also benefit from safety in numbers.
Similarly, reduced sea - ice cover was the likely cause of the dramatic change in the balance between krill and salps, the main grazers of phytoplankton (Atkinson et al., 2004).
No seriously... I'm a total grazer & I've always been.
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Cats are another problem with window sill cultivation because they are notorious seedling grazers and can quickly ruin the freshly - sprouted crop.
«Daphnia are the principle grazers in freshwater ponds, keeping algal populations in check,» Palkovacs explained.
Trying to mimic the roles of wild herds That protective layer, it turns out, is vital for healthy soils that trap carbon, break down methane and produce more grasses every year to feed returning grazers.
Early trails from about 555 million years ago meander and criss - cross haphazardly, indicating a poorly developed nervous system that was unable to sense or react to other grazers nearby — let alone predators.
All that remains of the African savanna grazers are seven skeletons, including one on display at University College London.
Around 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the plant - eating reptiles probably lived in multigenerational herds — just like modern grazers, a dinosaur track site in Alaska suggests.
With grazers present, they can handle much less drought stress.»
But these migrants weren't majestic, long - limbed grazers.
Famished after the end of the Ice Age by a diet of low - nutrient mosses, and increasingly harried by human hunters, the big grazers dwindled to extinction.
Every animal in an ecosystem has a function: Bats eat insects, fish clean algae from coral, grazers spread nutrient - rich dung across habitats.
Comet Lovejoy was the first sun - grazer known to survive its approach and reemerge from the corona, the researchers note.
This widening was not a result of larger seeds but instead a broadening of the scales with which the cone arms itself against grazers, he reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Woodley also points out that no living animal has taken over the long - necked grazer niche vacated by the plesiosaurs.
With four colleagues, Dobson co-authored a new paper, published last week in the journal PLoS One, based on a detailed computer model examining how a worst - case road - development scenario might affect the Serengeti's most iconic migratory grazer, the wildebeest (also known as the gnu).
This ability is enhanced by a feature that lets grazers rotate their eyes to keep their pupils parallel with the horizon.
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