Sentences with phrase «in wild cats»

In the wild cats need to figure out ways to hunt preys on a daily basis.

In the wild cats get most of the water they need from the little animals they eat.

In the wild cats take great care to prevent chance encounters with other cats through scent - marking behaviors.

Although domestic cats can potentially live without teeth, if fed the right diet, teeth are important (especially in wild cats) for a number of reasons including:

Nature's strategy — why coloration variations occur in wild cats (from Ocelots to African Lions) and why male cats are typically large (sexual dimorphism).

In the wild cats tend to get their water from the food their eat vs. drinking water like humans or dogs do.

Nature's strategy - why coloration variations occur in wild cats (from Ocelots to African Lions) and why male cats are typically large (sexual dimorphism).

When they were in the wild cats often climbed trees to escape from predators who were unable to clamber after them.

Not exact matches

In the wild, cats eat meat — and that's pretty much it.

Any blow to the British car industry, which was dogged by wild - cat strikes and poor productivity in the 1970s and 1980s, could undo years of recent progress with output currently expected to reach a record high of 2 million by 2020.

If a lion, leopard, cow and a human were in the same arena, I am interested to know why the wild cats would not attack the cow as opposed to the human.

But that didn't keep a few wild hyenas — which I've been told were more likely cats — from scaring the crap out of me in the middle of the night.

Outside in the cold distance, A wild cat did growl, Two riders were approaching, and the WIND BEGAN TO HOWL» excerpt from «All Along the Watchtower» By Bob Dylan

It was also a day filled with trying to get our 3 toddlers going in the same direction at the same time, which I assure you went as well as trying to heard a bunch of wild cats.

Luckily, I only have one cat but why does he run wild through the house ONLY at night and shove open my son's bedroom door in the middle of the night?

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip to visit the eight planets in our solar system, along with the Cat in the Hat.

NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.

The low - temperature freeze drying method makes this raw food incredibly authentic to what cats would eat in the wild.

Five genes involved with embryo development differ between wild and domesticated cats, researchers report November 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This meant that certain cats that would normally prefer to lead solitary lives in the wild had an additional incentive to stay with humans.

In the markets of Guangdong province, which borders on the South China Sea, thousands of chickens, ducks, quail, and geese squawk endlessly, crammed into cages next to or stacked on top of wilder creatures — civet cats, raccoon dogs, snakes, and turtles.

«We looked at the underlying genetics to understand why certain abilities to survive in the wild evolved in cats and other carnivores,» said Michael Montague, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral research associate at The Genome Institute.

Although house cats have only a limited ability to metabolize carbohydrates, including starch, they possess a longer intestine than their wild counterparts, presumably to help digest the lower - quality sustenance they get from trash heaps compared with the all - meat diet they would be living on in the wild, according to geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the National Institutes of Health.

They put wild rats in cages and then brought cats gradually closer to them.

Steve: My own cats, well I have two, have brought in — you know, speaking of being mousers — in the last month or so, they have brought home a mouse, a snake, we still have wild snakes in New York City folks!

The study, by nine U.S. and Indian scientists, goes public with long - running concerns among conservationists about India's use of pugmarks — tiger footprints — to count the big cats in the wild.

There are a lot of different wild cat populations, but all of the domesticated cats we see today came from one kind of wild cat that just was found in the Fertile Crescent; which tells us something very significant about the fact about how much the spread of the cats thereafter came along with the sort of the rise and the extent and spread of civilization.

Out on the delta, Wilson's team produced the first close tracking of cheetahs hunting in the wild — and revelations that a remarkable ability to brake sharply and pivot may be as important for hunting success as the cat's rocket - like acceleration.

In countries where there are lots of stray cats and dogs, many are in poor condition, especially compared with the truly wild animals that live in the same placeIn countries where there are lots of stray cats and dogs, many are in poor condition, especially compared with the truly wild animals that live in the same placein poor condition, especially compared with the truly wild animals that live in the same placein the same places.

But because the gene appears to affect only the cat's color, white tigers are simply genetically healthy variants of Bengal tigers, which, if bred carefully, might still survive well in the wild.

If they do disappear, the lynx will be the first wild cat to go extinct in more than 2,000 years.

A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization Panthera has published the largest gene - based survey of its kind on wild jaguar populations in Mesoamerica.

The big cats could return to do the job they once did in Brazil's grassland — hunt a growing population of wild pig relatives, called peccaries, that decimates crop yields

As part of a DNA study of the world's cats, Stephen O'Brien and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, collected blood and tissue samples from 209 puma in zoos, museums, and the wild across North and Central America, and from 106 of the animals in South America.

In support of the sweet taste hypothesis, Monell scientists previously found that both domestic and wild cats are unable to taste sweet compounds.

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

But in the wild, your cat's cousin, the puma, supplies the leftovers.

In its native environment, the wild cat is adaptable to a variety of habitat types: savanna, open forest, and steppe.

Estimated to be only 3 weeks old, the leopard cub suckled on a 5 - year - old lioness that is collared and monitored by KopeLion, a conservation NGO in Tanzania supported by Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organisation.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eatinIn order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eatinin the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

Snow leopards in the wild are solitary but some research done in the 80's showed captive cats may be more sociable than previously thought.

A comprehensive assessment of cheetah populations in southern Africa reveals the critical state of one of the planet's most iconic wild cats.

Dagina, an eight - year old female snow leopard we've known since she was a tiny cub, becomes our latest cat to be tracked with a GPS collar in the world's most comprehensive study of wild snow leopards.

With the data and knowledge published here for the first time, researchers, conservationists, NGO's and government authorities are better poised to collaborate to ensure this beautiful cat's existence in the wild.

Both cats are endangered and we congratulate everyone working to give them a sustainable future in the wild.

Press Release — Seattle, WA, July 11, 2013 An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2 - week - old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats.

Cooking the vegetables slightly will help to break them down, which makes sense, considering that most plant matter cats would consume in the wild would have been partially digested by their prey already.

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