Sentences with phrase «herd of»

A recent study also showed a herd of wild Soay sheep in the Outer Hebrides had decreased by five per cent in the last 24 years for exactly the same reason.

For instance, «one of the two bantengs we cloned in 2003 was healthy and lived a long life at the San Diego Zoo with a herd of other bantengs,» said cloning pioneer Dr. Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer at the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Using fertility, mortality, and growth data collected in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, where researchers have studied elephants since 1972, they constructed a virtual herd of 1360 elephants.

In the distance, a large herd of cows is grazing.

This huge herd of wild reindeer «crashed and is going down,» Petrov said December 12 at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Within that country's borders, in a park or residual wild area, are the last giant pandas or snow leopards, the last pockets of mountain gorillas or tigers, or the last migratory herd of a million wildebeests — something magnificent and acclaimed and sanctified.

«Right now we're working to establish a herd of genetically pure bison at the zoo.

The problem with Malthusians, Bailey writes, is that they «can not let go of the simple but clearly wrong idea that human beings are no different than a herd of deer when it comes to reproduction.»

She noted a high number of deaths among newborn children born at the mission clinic, and observed too a sudden spike in stillbirths among their herd of pigs.

Just another herd of fanged predators to be outwitted by the pluck and cunning of good people.

As eggs develop, each one is surrounded by a herd of much smaller hangers - on.

My favourite is one of a herd of gemsbok galloping across the Kalahari sands, their horns shining like silver sabres in the low light.

Some humanitarian organizations facilitate livestock donations to poor households in developing countries, but does giving a cow, a pair of oxen, or a herd of goats to a poor household really benefit the recipients?

The Porcupine herd of caribou (named for the Porcupine River) in Alaska travel 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) throughout the year from feeding ground to breeding ground — one of the longest overland migrations in the world.

As we raced to finish before the weather deteriorated further, we encountered a bachelor herd of a dozen skittish elk at a distance of fifty yards.

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.

This is the home of the Delta herd of caribou, which needs protection most urgently.

Trying to solve the problem has created a herd of wild ideas...

We were watching a herd of approximately four hundred elk cows, which stood on a high benchland on the southeastern border of the park.

Rottstock's 400 acres outside Berlin are devoted to potatoes, grain, and grass for his herd of 100 cattle.

One was from a patient who said a colonoscopy had turned up a small herd of tiny white worms in his gut.

Hunter - gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day.

For a day and a half, she eats and dozes in the same spot, ignoring the huge herd of bison that graze nearby.

Herd of antelopes in Uganda (stock image).

It's a large island, to be sure, about 1.6 million acres, but the habitat is so harsh that a successful recovery would be a herd of 300 animals.

That's the problem confronting Carlyle Currier, who owns a 4,000 - acre ranch in Molina, Colo. and is mulling a decision to trim his herd of 500 Angus - Hereford - Charolais hybrids.

An early hominid who judged himself equal to a herd of mammoths most likely paid the ultimate price.

Imagine trying to spot the tracks of a zebra after a herd of horses has passed by.

Thirty goats are devoted to making ATryn among a transgenic herd of more than 300, and an additional 1,200 nontransgenic animals are kept for breeding.

A large herd of caribou reportedly drowned in Canada in the 1980s, and there are still some huge migrations of animals, such as reindeer.

In the Cauca Valley of western Colombia, a herd of hefty cows at Petequi farm munches away on lush grass that looks as if it has grown there forever.

The capital costs for a drug production facility using hamster cells can amount to $ 400 million to $ 500 million, Cox says, whereas a herd of goats can produce the comparable amount of drug for $ 50 million.

«There are two known examples of osteoarthritis in dinosaurs, and that's in a herd of 39 found a mile under Brussels in a coal mine.

Each summer a herd of scientists races north, enduring white nights and relentless mosquitoes to study one of the world's harshest ecosystems.

The Centers for Enterprise helped get patents on Rogers's processes and «biological material» (the actual herd of pigs); the company licensed the gene - model technology from the university.

Package Size - Consider the package size to compare value or experiment, especially if you have a herd of little chihuahuas to feed!

Wisely or not, the city sold exclusive rights to pick up street - hail passengers in order to thin out a herd of cabs whose competition had grown cutthroat (sometimes literally).

It was a gory scene at a town identified as Gora in Nasarawa state on Tuesday as a truck rammed into a herd of cattle which...

Those in the herd of candidates for governor will spend their days and nights trying to tug firm commitments out of the delegates who were chosen in the last few weeks to attend May's party conventions.

The most remote from events is the herd of gubernatorial hopefuls.

My family has a herd of heritage cattle, unique breeds dating back to the settlement of the U.S. Not only do we use the aircraft to monitor our land and cattle, but if any of the cattle are injured or become ill, they need immediate care from a specialized veterinarian.

Most memorably, he called the press pack «a herd of ungulates».

Republicans gathering in New York City for their state convention this week must sort through a herd of candidates hoping to challenge New York's two Democratic senators in November — a rare election in which both seats are up for grabs.

White Deer Tours at the former Seneca Army Depot will again show off what they say is the world's largest herd of white, white - tailed deer through tours of the former military storage facility.

The world's largest herd of white deer is in peril as a local agency tries to find a bidder for an old Army Depot where the animals live.

GOP House Speaker Boehner will be there, arguing that 1 / 3rd or more of his 241 GOP caucus, the radical, teapartier «herd of rabid ferrets», will refuse to vote on any plan that raises the income tax rates.

Our correspondent gathered that trouble began when the farmer, who was working on his farmland located few metres from the newly constructed bridge at Afon, along Owode / Abeokuta Road, suddenly saw a herd of cattle and herdsmen on his farm.

Republicans have been grappling with similar problems thinning the record herd of gubernatorial candidates.

Mr. de Blasio argued everyone ought to be happy with his vision for wrangling the horses into Central Park, culling the herd of animals to less than half its current size, spending $ 25 million to convert a maintenance shed into a new stable and restricting pedicabs to the area of the park above 85th Street to reduce competition.

The cutest advert for Scottish independence you'll ever see, this dressed - up lamb is one of his current herd of around 30 sheep.