Sentences with phrase «horned lizards»

The park's wildlife includes hawks, quails, horned lizards, and more.

For example, we don't have horned lizards in my immediate area, but over the years, people have brought in several different species that they have collected on vacation.

Their subject: short - horned lizards (Phrynosoma douglasii), also called horny toads, which are native to our rural area and are a part of my students» world.

Outstanding in the Field: Students practice using radio telemetry so they'll be able to track short - horned lizards when the animals burrow underground for the winter.

«We have been able to develop designs that could be applied in hygiene products or lubrication in car engines, based on how the skin of Texas horned lizards transports water,» he says.

Feeding experiments showed that baby horned lizards can't survive on Argentine ants; the hatchlings lost weight so fast that the team terminated one experiment after 2 weeks.

The coastal horned lizards feed almost exclusively on ants, but they much prefer to munch on the native varieties — exactly the ants that are driven out when Argentine ants move in.

Coastal horned lizards suffer when invasive ants chase out the lizards» native prey.

They found that as Argentine ants moved in, horned lizards disappeared.

To find out whether ant invasions harm the lizards, conservation biologist Andrew Suarez of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues censused horned lizards over 3 years at 21 sites in four southern California counties.

Autohaemorrhaging, as this gruesome trick is called, is moderately common in insects, but horned lizards seem to be the only group of vertebrates that do it.

Ant invasions are a nuisance for picnickers, but for California's coastal horned lizards, the proliferation of one foreign ant species threatens their very survival.

Why don't the horned lizards just eat the tiny Argentine ants, whose biomass actually exceeds that of the larger native ants?

For the coastal horned lizard to survive in this region, he notes, «we not only have to make sure that enough habitat is put aside, we also have to make sure that the remaining habitat is monitored to prevent the invasions of exotic ants.»

If ever there was an animal that said «Don't even think about eating me,» it would be the Texas horned lizard.

Coastal horned lizard populations have declined so much in southern California that the state's Department of Fish and Game considers the animal «a species of special concern.»

Some recent papers «communicated» to PNAS include work on the effect of testosterone on financial decisions by men and women; on the proper DNA «barcode» for identifying plants; and a cover story on the separation and divergence of different lineages of the coast horned lizard.

In 1997, she and her students in grades 4 - 5 created the Adopt - a-Farmer Project, and, in conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad) today.

Just as many people think they want a chameleon until they find out how delicate and difficult they really are, lots of folks are enchanted by the horned lizard, aka the horny toad.

[The trade] is often painted as being made up of nothing but great, big killer snakes, but what does that have to do with a Texas horned lizard or a bearded dragon?»

The Ceratosaurus, which basically means «horned lizard» from Greek translation, is definitely a «meat eating Meatasaurus» as once described by young Lex in Jurassic Park.

Not exact matches

Psittacosaurus, whose name means «parrot lizard,» was a smallish, horned dinosaur that ran about on two legs eating nuts and seeds in what is now northeastern China.

On both sides are «cards» — random images of lizards, horned beetles, deep - sea fish, and angry tomatoes.

Birds, horned toads, rabbits, lizards, butterflies and quail live here.

Other animals in the islands include island fence lizard, island scrub jay, harbor seal, California sea lion, island night lizard, barn owl, bald eagles, American kestrel, horned lark and meadowlark and California brown pelican.

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It is not limited to rhino horn and ivory: lizards, snakes, tigers, birds, pangolins, fish stocks are also part of this global trade.