Sentences with phrase «killed by another predator»

Instead, the researchers point to an advantage of small size: Among today's creatures, diminutive species tend to grow and reproduce faster, so that they can produce a new generation before they are killed by predators.

«Reimbursing ranchers for livestock killed by predators supports conservation efforts: Compensation program offsets costs of preserving wildlife habitat on private land.»

When scientists setup an artificial ecosystem in the lab, complete with ladybugs, parasites, and lacewings, insects that like to make a meal of wasp cocoons, they found that when the cocoons were between the legs of a living ladybug, only 35 % were killed by predators, compared with 85 % if the cocoon was attached to a dead ladybug, and nearly 100 % if it was free from any ladybug.

It's part of a three - year Fish and Wildlife Service - funded effort to estimate the number of birds killed by predators, chemicals and in collisions with wind generators and windows.

It's what kept our caveman ancestors alive: they had to focus on the negative or risk being killed by predators.

Often the kittens, whose mother may have been killed by a predator or hit by a car, are close to death because of dehydration.

As a result, there are hundreds of thousands of homeless cats and dogs, many who die of starvation, dehydration, get hit by cars or killed by predators.

«They end up malnourished, injured, sick, hit by cars, and attacked / killed by predators, both animal and human.

Neutered males are less likely to stray from home, which reduces the possibility they will be struck by a car or killed by a predator.

• Your pet is less likely to wander from home and be injured or killed by predators or motor vehicles.

I am not advocating letting them outside to be killed by predators or hit by cars, but I do advocate managing their environment as one does any captive wild animal so that they have the opportunity to do what they have evolved to do.»

Are the cats really only killing prey with existing illness or injury who might have died or been killed by another predator anyway?

Some outdoor hutch rabbits are not killed by predators or the other risks mentioned.

Not exact matches

The carcasses were to be used by Government trappers to kill predators in the surrounding sheep country.

Disapprove Alaska Predator Control Rule — Vote Passed (225 - 193, 12 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Interior Department on Aug. 5, 2016, that prohibits certain predator control practices in national wildlife refuges in Alaska (such as the taking of mother bears and their cubs, the killing of wolves and their pups at den sites, and aerial shPredator Control Rule — Vote Passed (225 - 193, 12 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Interior Department on Aug. 5, 2016, that prohibits certain predator control practices in national wildlife refuges in Alaska (such as the taking of mother bears and their cubs, the killing of wolves and their pups at den sites, and aerial shpredator control practices in national wildlife refuges in Alaska (such as the taking of mother bears and their cubs, the killing of wolves and their pups at den sites, and aerial shooting).

«As with all good studies, this one generates many new questions,» says Staffan Bensch, an animal ecologist at Lund University in Sweden, who wonders whether the virus has benefitted some songbird species by killing off their avian predators, jays and crows.

By going after larger prey, not only do you get more food per kill, but you face less competition from predators who find these prey more of a challenge than you do.

«Because they are slow moving and not terribly well armed with claws, teeth, brains, or agility, opossums will be killed by nearly every type of predator — owls, coyotes, wolves, feral dogs, cougars, bobcats...» Austad wrote in his 1997 book Why We Age.

It's crystal clear that many predators ARE killed by toads — we often find them lying dead with a toad in their mouth or stomach — but the question is, what proportion of the population are killed?

During the course of production, Zissou's best friend and longtime diving partner Esteban was eaten by the giant marine predator of the documentary's title, and Zissou pledges that in Part 2, he will hunt the monster down and kill it.

The movie gets better as it goes, with Judy discovering a plot aimed at causing unrest by getting the predators to revert to their «savage» meat - killing, forms.

However, the film's best lines graciously go to its supporting cast of characters, with memorable appearances by uber - vamp Grace Jones (A View to a Kill, Conan the Destroyer), sexy predator Eartha Kitt (Holes, Erik the Viking), and smart jokes from comedians John Witherspoon (The Ladies Man, Friday), Chris Rock (Beverly Hills Ninja, Lethal Weapon 4) and Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys, Life).

Sadly the biggest waste was Bill Paxton (the only man in film to be killed by a Terminator, Predator, and Alien) as Mallory's father and fellow Marine.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

AND to prevent them from getting lost and reverting to feral, or getting killed themselves by cars and all the many predators out there.

No pets would know the horrors of trying to live without human assistance: being struck and killed by cars, foraging through the trash, trying to survive cold and heat and predators, and missing the Most Important Thing, human companionship.

Many dogs are killed from escaping doors and yards (being hit by a car, exposure to toxins, eaten by predators) so it's our responsibility as dog owners to ultimately keep them safe.

Or getting breeds that are susceptible to being killed by natural predators when left in the back yard.

Other predator species will actively hunt cubs, so they are driven away by the lions, especially if they get too close to kills or their families.

If a dog is killed by a larger predator — the body will usually be found.

For Jessup — who offers no additional evidence — it's all very straightforward: «Feral cats also indirectly kill native predators by removing their food base.»

Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.

Rabbits are prone to heat stroke (anything over 85 degrees is life - threatening) and can be killed by raccoons, hawks, dogs, feral cats, fly strike and other predators.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.

Discarded cats often starve, die of disease, are killed by traffic or by a larger predator / stray dog.

Applying the ESA prohibition on the take of an endangered species, including habitat degradation, to the issue of free - roaming cats, it would appear that under the right circumstances, aa court could find that cats degrade the habitat of endangered or threatened predator species by killing the prey upon which those species depend for food.

If a deer heard in NY state outgrows its environment, it will be brought down to a size that is sustainable either by predators, hunting or selective killing of a number of deer, or mother nature will adjust the size of the heard through starvation and decease.

They use these methods to deal with predators that are bothering farmers, but The Animal Welfare Institute and WildEarth Guardians say ocelots are getting caught in the cross-fire, killed by methods that can't tell the difference between an ocelot and a fox.

In 2007 Brian Roach and Daniel Brinkman argued that the evidence does not support that they were pack hunters, but that they were scavengers that fought over carcasses that were killed by larger predators.

We have an odd love - hate relationship with sharks, both frightened by their potential to kill (however hyped up that risk may be) and admiring of their perfect evolution as ocean predators.