Sentences with phrase «in wild mammals»

Additionally, body fat percentages in wild mammals typically vary by age and sex and also seasonally in a cyclic waxing and waning manner with changing availability of food sources and the photoperiod (Figure 5)(57,58).

«Conclusion: As physical activity expenditure has not declined over the same period that obesity rates have increased dramatically, and daily energy expenditure of modern man is in line with energy expenditure in wild mammals, it is unlikely that decreased expenditure has fuelled the obesity epidemic.»

Corina Logan from the University of Cambridge and her team looked at the skulls of 1314 red deer (Cervus elaphus) from the Isle of Rum, off the west coast of Scotland, in the first study of its kind in wild mammals.

A study of red deer on a Scottish island reveals some of the first evidence in wild mammals of a clear link between brain size and evolutionary fitness

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Almost all land mammals in the wild have been observed to eat their placenta soon after delivery.

In the wild, most mammals eat this organ post-birth and scientists believe it may have something to do with bonding to their young.

Now I have a theory that I was actually much farther along the first time around, but like any mammal in the wild, I undialated in such a harsh and stressful environment.

According to Defra, exemptions in the Hunting Act allow the following activities to take place in limited circumstances: stalking and flushing out; use of a dog below ground, in the course of stalking and flushing out, to protect birds being kept or preserved for shooting; hunting rats and rabbits; retrieval of hares which have been shot; falconry; recapture of wild mammals; and research and observation.

The law, introduced by Labour in 2004, bans the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild mammals in England and Wales.

What is required is a law, as previously proposed by Labour peer Lord Donoughue, that would create an offence for any act that causes unnecessary suffering to any wild mammal in any circumstance.

The way to resolve this is by way of a new wild mammals welfare law that would address such situations and any accusations of causing unnecessary suffering would then be tested in court on the basis of evidence, rather than prejudice or ignorance.

Using annual population estimates from the Russian Federal Agency of Game Mammal Monitoring database, researchers analyzed trends of eight large mammals — roe deer, red deer, reindeer, moose, wild boar, brown bears, lynx, and gray wolves — in Russia from 1981 to 2010, a time period that includes the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

But how would listing in the U.S. help this African mammal, whose population numbers in the wild have dipped below 100,000?

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.

The movements of marine mammals and other large animals that spend their lives in the ocean were largely unknown prior to the development of sophisticated tracking devices researchers could deploy on animals in the wild.

«This is clear evidence that plant - eating mammals actually have larger guts,» explains Marcus Clauss, a professor of comparative digestive physiology in wild animals at UZH.

To assess the situation of the Iberian lynx and other felid species that live in the wild on our planet, a team of Brazilian and Spanish scientists has reviewed the scientific literature that exists on the main threat for these mammals: the loss and fragmentation of their habitats.

What we may have identified in this study is mammals» own «Cambrian explosion» moment, when evolutionary experimentation ran wild and the future shape of mammals was up for grabs.»

«At the Norje Sunnansund settlement, outside Sölvesborg in Sweden, you can see that just over half of the protein intake has come from fish, ten per cent from seals, and around 37 per cent from land mammals, such as wild boar and red deer, and scarcely three per cent from plants such as mushrooms, berries and nuts,» says Adam Boethius.

In The Way of the Hare (Bloomsbury), self - styled «wildlife - watcher» Marianne Taylor avoids subjective interpretations, concentrating on the biology, ecology and evolution of my favourite wild mammal.

They'll also discuss novel ways of assessing the health and physiology of free - swimming mammals that can be hard to study in the wild.

Tilikum, SeaWorld's notorious orca that has killed three people, including one of his trainers, was captured as a youngster in these same waters, Foote notes; while he is fed only fish at SeaWorld, in the wild, he may have eaten marine mammals, too.

In making its decision, the agency looked to the requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), which does not allow the removal of marine mammals from the wild if doing so contributes to a population's decline.

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda in the wild have also benefitted other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians, according to new Duke University - led study.

Though the marine mammals were captured from the wild in the early years of the program, since the late 1980s, the program has bred its dolphins in - house at its training facility in San Diego and buys young sea lion pups from marine parks, said Mark Xitco, who heads up all the marine mammal training and care for the program.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Wild elephants get the least sleep of any mammal»

«We think she must have mated in the wild, got pregnant, but with her handicap was unable to sustain the fetus and it died in utero,» says Hildebrandt, who specializes in the assisted reproduction of endangered mammals and has been involved with Sabah's rhinos since 2004.

While populations of wild animals have halved, only about 1 to 2 per cent of species have been lost so far — at least in well - studied groups such as mammals and birds.

To see whether the technique could find mammal DNA in the wild, Gilbert asked Wilkinson to ship him some tropical leeches (Haemadipsa spp.).

David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about new research on captive cetaceans suggesting that some species can naturally muffle such sounds — perhaps opening a way to protect these marine mammals in the wild.

As a result of non-target species possibly being included in past research studies, it has been thought that snow leopards — who lack an abundance of natural prey — consume great numbers of small mammals such as marmots, hares and pika, as well as wild ungulates, which are larger hooved animals such as ibex.

Unsustainable hunting for consumption and trade of wild meat (also known as bushmeat) by humans represents a significant extinction threat to wild terrestrial mammal populations, perhaps most notably in parts of Asia, Africa and South America [4 — 6].

They provide control on populations of small mammals and birds, such as beaver, geese and wild turkeys, and can help to provide stability in the composition and numbers of general wildlife populations (Voigt and Berg 1999, Gompper 2002).

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While almost all large domesticated mammals have wild ancestors who lived in herds with highly social behaviors and well - defined hierarchical relationships, neither wild asses nor Grevy's is reported to be social in the wild.

Whales and other aquatic mammals can only get big but not too big if they want to survive in the wild.

EPA is produced in the bodies of wild cold - water fish and crustaceans, and to a much lesser extent, mammals including humans.

No wild canine or vulpine eats grain unless it is a small amount, predigested, in the gut of a small mammal or bird.

The dominant (> 50 % fat energy) fatty acids in the fat storage depots (adipocytes) of wild mammals are saturated fatty acids (SFAs), whereas the dominant fatty acids in muscle and all other organ tissues are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs)(11).

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Even in cases when some species of birds and other small mammals were reintroduced into the wild to try to prevent extinction, the tenacious feral felines unfortunately end up hunting them down too.

Normally, across species, larger mammals live longer than their smaller counterparts; for instance, elephants can get up to 70 years old in the wild, while house mice reach only 4 years.

** A wild animal should never be approached — we also see rabies in North Texas which is deadly to people and can be carried by any mammal.

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However, leptospirosis is not uncommon in northern Californian dogs both from urban backyards and also with exposure histories involving livestock and areas frequented by wild mammals.

Miller, M.A., et al., «Type X Toxoplasma gondii in a wild mussel and terrestrial carnivores from coastal California: New linkages between terrestrial mammals, runoff and toxoplasmosis of sea otters.»

In the wild, hedgehogs eat a diverse selection of insects as well as some plant material and very occasionally small or baby mammals (like pinkie mice).

The cute but vulnerable pangolin holds the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily trafficked wild mammal in the world.

Heartworm disease is a preventable yet serious condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs, heart, and surrounding blood vessels of dogs, cats, wild canines and felines, other mammal species, and in rare cases, humans.