Sentences with phrase «large animal populations»

But as today's large animal populations become more in danger of extinction, the environment too is at risk.

For example, would people want to live in an area with a large animal population?

Jabali Ridge will open in Ruaha National Park, an area with one of Africa's largest animal populations and currently only a handful of small camps.

Not exact matches

God also created all of the animals in the beginning, but the population is certainly larger than it was at the start.

The campaign aims to help the endangered animals in their homeland, educate the public about the damage ivory consumption does to elephant populations and secure a moratorium on ivory trading in the U.S., the world's second largest importer of ivory.

It has already had success in Anglesey which now contains the largest and most genetically diverse red squirrel population in Wales with over 500 animals recorded over a 720km2 landscape.

This not only expanded the size of the basal progenitor population in a way somewhat reminiscent to what is seen in large - brained animals.

There is a twist in this peacock's tail though — this effect only happens when the animal populations are large.

The effects of waste on larger animals, including birds with stomachs full of plastic, have garnered significant attention, he says, but «when you start altering [whole] populations,... that's when you get these true impacts.»

Using only the DNA from sloughed - off cells floating in the ocean, scientists have been able to determine the population size and genetic properties of one of the world's largest and most mysterious animals: the whale shark.

«This study gives us a better understanding of how living in an unpredictable environment can influence the population density of large animals that spend the majority of their time in tress,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University.

In one year, a Soviet expedition took 1200 right whales, the most endangered of large whales, from a world population estimated at only 2500 animals.

Furthermore, the researchers suspect that even if habitat destruction were to halt in these areas, the remaining large animal species would have little chance of maintaining viable populations beyond the next few decades.

Besides possibly leading to a substantial decline in scavengers that may depend on puma leftovers, one of the largest effects of losing pumas would likely be boom - and - bust population cycles in prey animals such as deer.

Animals as large as elephants have been moved from one national park to another in South Africa in order to manage the growing populations there, he says.

Not only do we kill other animals at much higher rates than other predators, but our ability to bring down larger adults can make it very difficult for some prey populations to recover.

But with no evidence of a large asymptomatic population so far, Kellam and his colleagues favor a second scenario: MERS evolved and diversified in animals and then infected humans on multiple occasions.

«What's particularly noteworthy about this work is we were able to present an integrative link from genetics, cell - and animal - based experiments, all the way up to clinical outcomes in large human population,» Liu said.

One of their more important avenues of research has been redesigning and enhancing state - of - the - art habitat connectivity maps that can be paired with satellite imagery to display the potential corridors used by animal populations to move between both large and small areas.

I primarily use genomic approaches to address these, and over the last few years my group has used large - scale population genomics to identify the global origin and routes of spread of many human and animal pathogens.

Esp south India where I grew up has the largest vegetarian almost vegan (no cheese or paneer consumed here, ghee, yogurt n milk are the animal products consumed here) populations (millions!).

Brazil is expected to become the world's largest meat exporter.20 In a world of rapidly increasing population and a potentially shrinking food supply, animal food products are presently an asset to adequate nutrition.

India, which has the largest population of diabetics in the world, has been undergoing a nutrition transition, where «low - fat, fiber - rich traditional foods are displaced by the «meat - sweet» diet with more animal protein, refined sugars and fats, and processed foods.»

While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found in the ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.

12 What he found was a population that put great value on animal foods — wild pig and seafood — even groups living inland on some of the larger islands.

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»

Where there's obesity in large amounts of the population, there's a very good chance you'll find misguided and destructive eating habits such as low - fat diets along with too much processed, CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) meat and not enough vegetables and healthy sources of fat.

You might allow students to choose the format for their state reports or you might ask that all students include the same information (for example, state name, state population, state capital marked with a gold star, largest city, state nickname from its license plate, state flower, state animal, chief products, a drawing of the state flag, famous people from the state).

Corn's largest use is actually in animal feed, meaning that demand for this resource is tied to demand for protein intake and global population growth.

This promotion encourages the community to strengthen the work of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populAnimal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populanimal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray population.

The longer an animal stays in your shelter, the more likely it is to get sick in your care, and the larger your shelter population becomes; therefore, understanding the Length of Stay (LOS) at your shelter is a key component to your shelter's life saving mission.

The larger problem is pets in the hands of those having a casual concern about animal population.

Roundworm populations can grow so large in puppies that the animal actually appears inflated at the gut.

A $ 75 fine (multiplied for each animal you own) will surely be cost - prohibitive to a large percentage of our city's population — which is going to spell trouble for our shelters.

The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of limited animal shelter budgets.

In an effort to make a greater impact to help the companion animals in Anne Arundel County, Rude Ranch is moving forward to implement a large scale spay and neuter clinic, «The Spay Spa & Neuter Nook», to get ahead of the over population problem.

Behaviorists can also work closely with communities who have a large population of wild animals.

This video is about a dog named «Max» and it was made and produced for LifeLine Animal Project to address Atlanta's large homeless pet population and encourage adoptions.

The study, led by The HSUS and supported by Maddie's Fund, focused on Louisiana and Mississippi — two states identified as having limited animal sheltering infrastructures combined with large homeless pet populations.

Learn how to recognize and manage infectious diseases in a shelter, collect forensic evidence in a current investigation, and prevent behavioral and welfare problems in large populations of animals.

Historically, large numbers of healthy animals, including community cats, have been destroyed by animal protection agencies for population control as well as to prevent the possibility of potential suffering at some time in the future.

Through BARC's Healthy Pets Healthy Streets initiative, BARC partners with local spay / neuter providers such as Emancipet, Friends For Life, Spay - Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Humane Society to educate the community on the importance of spay / neuter and to provide free spay / neuter surgeries in targeted neighborhoods with the largest stray animal populations.

In addition, other than my studies of large animals, I had very few resources for treating small animal populations.

Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada) released the results of a large, well - controlled study with veterinarians designed to definitively quantify the prevalence of mental illness and stress in the veterinary profession and compare the findings to previous studies and the general U.S. population.

We are building a wellness / isolation pod so that animals with treatable contagious diseases like kennel cough can recover without infecting the larger population.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually fewer stray animals in large, free roaming dog populations than many people believe.

Internationally, large populations of feral cats constitute an important and controversial issue due to their impact on cat overpopulation, animal welfare, public health, and the environment, and to disagreement about what are the best methods for their control.

«A large percentage of the Santa Cruz homeless population has an animal.

You can guard against infection by cooking meat and animal products well, wearing latex gloves when handling your cat's litter boxes, and avoiding or sanitizing areas with large cat populations.

In fact, the purpose of New York's Animal Population Control Program Fund, as written into law, is to «reduce the population of unwanted and stray dogs and cats thereby reducing incidence of euthanasia and potential threats to public health and safety posed by the large population of these animals.»