Sentences with phrase «half of grazing»

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

This book by Alaena Haber of Grazed and Enthused and Sarah Ballantyne, The Paleo Mom, is the best introduction to AIP I've seen.

Despite its relative dearth of grazing land, Israeli farmers have applied digital management and biometrics, or ear - tagging, to its livestock sector to reinvent its dairy industry as one of the most productive in the world.

Dr. Cottam told how they will divide the area into pastures of various types, some with varying amounts of grazing and some with none at all.

It has all the requirements: plenty of water, plenty of grazing land, plenty of tsetse flies.

Not only will eating together keep her exposed to the wide variety that grown - ups eat — critical during the upcoming picky eating period — but it will also prevent the chaos of grazing, and misusing food to soothe emotions.

«There was an 11 - year - old boy playing in the park and he was struck in the [arm], sort of a graze wound,» said police spokesman Hector Alfaro.

Having daily mealtime routines at a table with your family (instead of grazing on food while walking around or at the coffee table watching TV) sets up positive mealtime experiences for your young children.

The idea, says Doherty, co-owner of Graze, a Vergennes - based farm - to - fridge grocery - delivery service, is that «if you were packing the lunch, you'd use the same ingredients.

The idea now is more of a grazing type of feeding.

Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».

He said, «The Federal Government should begin the development of grazing reserves.

The population of Nigeria has grown far beyond the establishment of grazing reserves», he said.

That is why we are seriously advocating for cattle ranches instead of grazing reserve because the land is no more there.

The reconstitution of the grazing reserve management committee, was in the interest of all and not intended to harm anyone or group, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said on Wednesday.

«Orchards, vineyards, cornfields and pastures of grazing livestock help define Ulster County's unique sense of place.»

A Lagos - based lawyer, Mr. Wahab Shittu, recalled that back in the days, all that a herdsman carried in the course of grazing his animal was just a stick.

For one to suggest that the killings are justified because of blockade of grazing routes smacks of complete ignorance, and also amounts to hate speech.

He described as very unfortunate, herdsmen invasion of people's farm lands in the name of grazing their cattle.

President Muhammadu Buhari and the state governors have agreed that ranches should be established to address incessant farmers / herdsmen clashes instead of grazing reserves, Gov. Simon Lalong...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday stated that the Federal Government lacked the powers to seize land from states for the establishment of grazing reserves or livestock production centres.

Other khipus are just a few strings, made by herders to keep stock of grazing animals.

So Savory decided to mimic the great herds of old, which have died out in many regions or persist in far reduced numbers, with managed «strategic» herds of grazing vegetarians.

Likewise, the same environmental benefits could be seen on the cow - calf system providing cattle for the feedlot, matching greater production per unit land with the environmental benefits of grazing, he added.

Playing Wild Divine involves exploring a lush 3 - D world with waterfalls, elaborate gardens, spiritual guides, and a menagerie of grazing llamas and white wolves.

The hippopotamus had so far increased as to endanger the persistence of grazing.

Then she went to the University of Adelaide in Australia for a project on the effects of grazing on ants.

Of these papers, ISI revealed that the Dutch discipline with the highest impact relative to the rest of the world was agricultural sciences, which harmonizes with the endless fields of grazing livestock and swaths of tulips visible from train windows.

A Let me give one example: I always assumed that the reason that they were losing their lichens and grasses was because of grazing and, you know, frankly, I was wrong.

Three millennia later a prolonged dry period and lack of grazing lands helped to push Mongol armies out of Central Asia as far west as Europe, where many settled and intermarried.

This led him to appreciate that animal disturbance could benefit as well as harm a landscape, and that this was how wild herds of grazing animals had maintained native grasslands.

The study was performed in Kilpisjärvi in northwest Finland, where the research team tested the importance of grazing animals, warming and nutrient availability by combining small greenhouses that increased the summer temperature by 1 - 2 degrees Celsius, small fences that excluded reindeer, voles and lemmings, as well as by use of fertilization.

However, it is important to know whether the response depends on the abundance of grazing animals, particularly reindeer, voles and lemmings, which are very common in tundra ecosystems.

The authors identified four feeding strategies that typified those used on farms in Wisconsin, with varying degrees of grazing, land allocated for grazing, and diet supplementation.

Thus, future studies are needed in this area to elucidate the effects of grazing management and feeding systems.

Underneath a relict patch of illinois prairie, complete with a small herd of grazing buffalo, protons and antiprotons whiz along in opposite paths around a four - mile - long tunnel.

«There may be a large fraction of grazing that is being done by mixotrophs, so it's potentially very significant in terms of the flow of carbon in the ocean and it should be quantified.»

Richard Young of the Sustainable Food Trust in Bristol, U.K., says the report is too quick to dismiss the importance of grazing in some regions.

However, tree - dwelling reptiles were able to thrive in all of the grazing treatments, including the heavily stocked paddocks.»

The findings don't sway advocates of grazing.

Develop rangeland management and transboundary agreements and local agreements on transhumance — spatial management, reinforce corridors and develop zoning of grazing

Working in partnership with the Toronto Zoo, the team collected saliva samples from moose and reindeer, which they then smeared onto clipped samples of red fescue grass carrying the toxic fungus, simulating the effect of grazing.

Without free - roaming herds of grazing animals to hold them back, closed - canopy forests took over the land wherever humans did not intervene.

«Although birds in this study were shown to compensate by switching to other seed types, the findings suggest that the capacity of grazed lands to support similar numbers of birds as ungrazed lands may be compromised,» according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies» Rosalind Renfrew, an expert on grassland bird conservation who was not involved in the study.

An analysis of the collective movements of grazing sheep has revealed that sheep alternate slow dispersion phases with very fast regrouping, in which they imitate the behavior of their neighbors.

In less forgiving settings, family units often split up for long periods, dividing their herds into smaller groups during dry seasons, for instance, with family members scattered with subflocks on distant pockets of grazing land.

«Siberia thereby provided a continuing source of grazing - adapted mammoths, which we suggest acted as a repeated source of evolutionary advancement into periodically glaciated Europe,» they write.

«These tiny animals, by going about their daily business of grazing, are integral to keeping healthy seagrass beds healthy.»

Large herds of grazing animals evolved to roam around natural grasslands, eating the grasses and being chased by large predators.

The diet is plant - based there because of a shortage of grazing lands and livestock, but subjects occasionally consume some B12 - containing foods, mostly poultry and eggs, though very little dairy or meat.