Sentences with phrase «in arboreal»

The urban canopy of Georgia has been diminishing, and this is a pretty socially savvy way to get the citizens involved in arboreal preservation.

They are found in arboreal habitats, but in some areas are also rock - dwellers.

The most impoverished region, in arboreal terms, is the north of North America, with 1,400 species.

Any study that doesn't understand ursine foecal behaviours in arboreal environments lacks a certain common sense.

The distinctly human ability for forceful precision (e.g. when turning a key) and power «squeeze» gripping (e.g. when using a hammer) is linked to two key evolutionary transitions in hand use: a reduction in arboreal climbing and the manufacture and use of stone tools.

Yet the fossa's muscle and might are closer to that of a clouded leopard, its only rival in arboreal athleticism.

afarensis had forelimbs that were ape - like, including long, curved fingers used to forage daily in the arboreal canopy, and that its immediate ancestors must have knuckle - walked.

Not exact matches

Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

A team of several dozen researchers reports online today in Scientific Reports that it has observed chimps routinely throwing and banging rocks at arboreal targets, resulting in the kind of stone accumulations pictured above.

Hundreds of acres of once - vibrant, postcard - perfect groves that have prospered for centuries are now cemeteries where twisted, dead tree trunks protrude like arboreal zombies from fertile soil in which grass and flowers easily grow.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

The arboreal feat stumped scientists until more than 200 years after Newton penned his botanical musings (shown above) in an unpublished notebook he used in the 1660s.

But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have more than we realized: These arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.

He is the first person to conduct an arboreal camera trap survey in the TL2 Landscape, and spent a semester there climbing very remote rainforest trees to set up the cameras.

Although the fossil record is incomplete, we have more than enough to see that, in broad terms, our big - brained, long - limbed, built - for - distance - walking species evolved from arboreal ancestors with smaller brains, larger teeth and broader chests.

This is the first report of its kind to offer a record of an arboreal crab — a crab species that lives in trees.

Many of the arboreal frogs are green in colour, whereas the terrestrial and aquatic species are duller.

The orangutans are the only great apes that occurs outside Africa, and they are the largest arboreal mammal in the world.

The researchers» work began with collecting observations on hoverfly behavior in three of these insects» natural habitats — tropical Bangalore, alpine Sikkim, and hemi - arboreal Uppsala.

Orangutans are the only great apes to occur outside of Africa, and are the largest arboreal mammals in the world.

Moreover, as humans and apes differ in loading of the foot, this region is relevant to questions concerning arboreal locomotion and bipedality in the hominoid fossil record.

To navigate a life in the trees, sloths (and other arboreal folivores) possess extraordinarily low metabolic rates

They lack the long, strong fingers used by chimps and gorillas for knucklewalking, and the elongation of the hand found in the highly arboreal gibbons and orang - utans.

In one of the reversed clips, a sudden burst of inspiration pushes a father to raze his shed and construct a go - kart track; in another, a baseball crashing through a window inspires him to give his back yard the Field of Dreams treatment; and in the «Tree House» commercial, a family enjoys a picnic atop the multi-story arboreal dwelling constructed with the help of a 2014 Toyota TundrIn one of the reversed clips, a sudden burst of inspiration pushes a father to raze his shed and construct a go - kart track; in another, a baseball crashing through a window inspires him to give his back yard the Field of Dreams treatment; and in the «Tree House» commercial, a family enjoys a picnic atop the multi-story arboreal dwelling constructed with the help of a 2014 Toyota Tundrin another, a baseball crashing through a window inspires him to give his back yard the Field of Dreams treatment; and in the «Tree House» commercial, a family enjoys a picnic atop the multi-story arboreal dwelling constructed with the help of a 2014 Toyota Tundrin the «Tree House» commercial, a family enjoys a picnic atop the multi-story arboreal dwelling constructed with the help of a 2014 Toyota Tundra.

In places the emerald leaves of the arboreal canopy block out all but a thin latticework of sky, making it seem dark even on the sunniest of summer days and adding to the tunnel - like feeling of the confusing rabbit warren of roads.

In a parallel to Shannon's encounter with the angelically blossoming tree, Darwin, exploring a Brazilian rainforest, has his own arboreal revelation: «Bristles of orchid leaves on every black branch / like green flames over Bibles.

He went after the branches with the same grim intensity he went at the trunks, lost in mossy arboreal sadness, and he kept hacking away until he was further hidden from sight.

The titles of the journals quoted in the chapter introductions are similarly clever (New Oppressor, The Toad, The Mole, Gadfly, Portsmouth Penny Dreadful, Swindon Eevening Blurb, Arboreal Times, Swindon Daily Eyestrain) and the context is hilariously inane.

This is very useful in small arboreal cages, wherein the light needs to go down, but not wide.

Crested geckos — arguably the front - runner in rising popularity — require a slightly larger cage, but since they are arboreal, they inhabit a taller, yet smaller, footprint compared to the leopards.

Some parrot species, such as African greys, are primarily ground foragers and appreciate a clean surface on the cage bottom or on a ledge to forage on, while other parrot species, such as lories, are primarily arboreal foragers and prefer enrichment opportunities in the upper area of the cage, he said.

This is excellent for our chameleons and other arboreals, as they enjoy being both up in the trees and above the reach of those possibly predatory simians that seem to wander through their forest every day.

These five - inch lizards are arboreal and do very well with just a small basking lamp high up in the cage.

Most readily available arboreal lizard species will thrive in a standard glass reptile terrarium that has a suitable locking screen lid.

Arboreal caging is not only a necessity in our line, it creates the dream - world imagery that inspires the casual window shopper to say, «Oh, I have got to have that!»

Terrestrial and arboreal, it sleeps in burrows or tree hollows.

Terrestrial and arboreal, it sleeps in burrows of tree hollows.

Their home is under attack, forcing them to flee in order to rescue their arboreal homestead's last remaining seed.

Neon and wood aren't the most likely of combinations, but Keith Lemley welds the two very different mediums into conversation in his latest show, «Arboreal.»

Artist Statement «Stunning arboreal giants covered in moss, grazing Roosevelt elk, lush blanket of plants and rushing rivers all intertwine to create an ecosystem that will breathe life into your visit...

In this body of work, Oppenheim makes photograms from paper - thin slices of wood, using the same arboreal species to frame the images.

Another finished work depicts the aftermath of a Vermont storm that left arboreal carnage in its wake, which appealed to the artist.

«Arboreal» will continue in Lemley's signature style with Chestnut Oak sculptures, based on a fallen tree outside his studio in Appalachia.

After teaching as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan for 25 years, she was commissioned by Paris and designed Arboreal Architecture, an ecological city with skyscrapers covered with vegetation.

Made in collaboration with USF Graphicstudio, Vertigo is comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal, woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer - not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch.

See her wonderful creations displayed in an exhibition called Anatomy of the Arboreal at Scream gallery.

A central cluster of vegetation in the diptych, Untitled, is continuous across the pair of panels, literary staging a confrontation between the interior space established in the composition and the exterior one imposed by its edge; Beaded Curtain (Red Apples) identifies in its title the dual function played by an allover crimson chevron design as fruit on an arboreal range and the scrim through which the greenery is glimpsed.

Artist Statement «Stunning arboreal giants covered in moss, grazing Roosevelt elk, lush blanket of plants and rushing rivers all intertwine to create an ecosystem that will breathe life into your...