Sentences with phrase «how animal size»
«All these factors should be taken into account when making predictions about how animal size will respond.»
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«How fear alone can cause animal extinction: Even the smell of a predator can have disastrous effects in populations of small size.»
They also suggest that metabolism increases with size more than an animal's ability to gather food, putting a boundary on how big aquatic mammals can grow.
Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.
«Because body size is determined by how fast you grow and how long you grow, this work sets the stage for us to move back in time and answer evolutionary questions about why and how animals have gotten bigger.»
Arnold Kriegstein, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, also argues that though the scientists found inhibitory interneurons strikingly depleted in the brains of the oxygen - deprived piglets, this alone can not account for the dramatic shrinking of the animals» overall brain size and the diminished number of cortical folds «The interneurons are part of the story but not the entire story of how the brain is affected by this kind of [lack of oxygen].»
«Although we knew that temperature might set a maximum for body size,» Smith says, the new findings actually present a mechanism — and do so in a very detailed manner, showing «how animals responded to a particular temperature at a particular place at a particular time.»
They generally seem to choose prey on the basis of how dangerous it is perceived to be, the general size of the potential prey animal, etc..
In an article publishing April 28 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, the researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois describe how they studied 22 animals called median / paired fin swimmers, in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
«Big geographic changes across northern Zealandia, which is about the same size as India, have implications for understanding questions such as how plants and animals dispersed and evolved in the South Pacific.
Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first - order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species up and down the size scale vocalize.
A new study shows that flocks of different sizes behave differently, and could help explain how animals like birds and fish coordinate their movements.
These investigations also gave the researchers greater insights into how the size of adhesive footpads is influenced and constrained by the animals» evolutionary history.
In existing vertebrates, genome size correlates very closely with bone cell size, so Organ used the size of dinosaur bone cells to predict how much genetic material the extinct animals possessed.
In a study now published in the scientific journal eLife, a research group from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), led by Christen Mirth, shed new light on how animals regulate body size.
The zebrafish's transparency, small size, and rapid reproduction make it one of the best models for studying how animals and bacteria «talk» to each other, she adds.
I asked this question in a more experimentally tractable context: How do body parts of a single animal become different sizes?
Size differences account for a great deal of the diversity found in the animal kingdom, but we still have much to learn about how sizes are programmed.
Cornelia Bargmann has for more than two decades used these millimetre - sized transparent worms as a model organism for understanding how genes and the environment influence animal behaviour.
Realizing how precipitous the Whos» situation is, considering their small size, Horton decides to be their protector, which makes him a target of ridicule in the Jungle of Nool, led by a mean kangaroo, as none of the other animals can hear the minuscule Who's.
The detail in the animation and world - building is staggering, and the design of Zootopia itself, how its infrastructure accommodates animals of different sizes and species, is truly impressive.
He showed how the casing of the Automower has been designed to a specific size, so that hands, feet and even small animals won't come into contact with the blade without lifting the lawnmower — which triggers an emergency stop.
You'll teach students how to use measurements to deduce animal size, then build relevance through an activity in which students choose their nature names.
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It looks so tiny to us on our plate and what we eat in a day, but when you look at the size comparisons and the metabolic differences, you'd be amazed at how many calories they're actually adding to that small little animal with the treat off their plate.»
The temperament and intelligence of the Standard was so prized that an effort was made to reduce his size to a small companion animal, and this is how the Toy came to be.
The researchers now suggest that there is a link between how social an animal is and the size of their brains relative to their body size, meaning that dogs may have larger brains relative to their body size than cats because they are more social animals.
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's (WSAVA) Global Nutrition Committee has put together a table that shows how much calories an average dog would need based on their size.
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As veterinary technicians showed us how for smaller animals, they used a variety of hand - made oxygen masks made from different sizes of plastic cups.
However, garlic in large quantities can be harmful to animals, so check with a veterinarian to see how much is safe based on the dog's size and weight.
Puppies and kittens can grow and change a lot as they go through young adulthood, but with dogs and cats that are a year or two old, you'll know how much exercise they need, how they are with other animals, their full grown size, and more.
In work funded by the Morris Animal Foundation, Dr. Hurley looked at how cage size and design affects shelter cat health and discovered that larger - sized cages and portals to combine two cages are better for cat health and well - being.
Think about how much room you have and what size animal will be most comfortable in your home.
Ribbens says it's «how the sale takes place and how the animal is treated,» not necessarily the size, that make an operation a puppy mill.
Remember, the adult size of a dog is determined genetically — not by how fast the animal grows.
Depending on the size and activity level of an animal determines how soon the worm gets to the animal's heart and when the symptoms of the disease appear.
They will often be responsible for pets of all sizes, and will need to know how to handle animals as well as how to groom them appropriately.