Sentences with phrase «large as an elephant»

Although anesthesia always carries its own risks, with an animal as large as an elephant, Sanchez knew the team would need to be even more careful.

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 exact matches

Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.

There were also many mammals of the same time period which were a great deal larger than todays elephants such as the Wooly Mammoth.

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

In the days that followed we saw many elephants as we searched for one which had tusks large enough to take for a trophy.

The glowing potential has long been overshadowed by the presence of players such as Sebastien Squillaci, Marouane Chamakh and Andre Santos, who all help to make up the worryingly large number of Elephants in The Gunners» dressing room.

It doesn't take much to see why the US took more of a backseat when Colorado and Washington, two states that have also fully commercially legalised cannabis, act as very large elephants in the UN's designated room of conformity.

Planetary cues, such as magnetic inclination and moon phase, guide northern elephant seals and other large vertebrates over long distances and across time.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

Although other theropods rivaled or exceeded T.rex in size, it was the largest known tyrannosaurid and one of the largest known land predators, measuring over 12 metres (40 feet) in length and weighing as much as an elephant.

This is a reconstruction of a Last Interglacial temperate landscape (Germany) with typical Late Pleistocene European large herbivores such as the now extinct straight - tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus), an extinct rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), as well as the still common roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

Despite being an iconic image — a fossil with a striped body, large tail, a pair of stalks terminating in dark, oval - shaped «blobs» and a large elephant trunk - like proboscis at the head end which has a pincer - like claw filled with teeth — it is a complete mystery as to what kind of extinct animal it was.

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

The acacia ants she studies, Crematogaster mimosae, use their fearsome bite to defend their host trees against large animals such as elephants and giraffes that eat the trees» leaves.

He says the finding demonstrates the role that large mammals like elephants play as «ecosystem engineers» providing resources and habitat to much smaller animals.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

However, no elephant fossils have yet been discovered in Borneo, even though fossils from other large mammals such as orang - utans have been found.

Despite that, the researchers say that there has been relatively little research done on giraffes in comparison to other large animals, such as elephants, rhinoceroses, gorillas, and lions.

For instance, previous experiments conducted in Kenya have isolated patches of land from megafauna such as zebras, giraffes and elephants, and observed how an ecosystem reacts to the removal of its largest species.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

As elephants age, they continue to grow larger, as do their coveted tuskAs elephants age, they continue to grow larger, as do their coveted tuskas do their coveted tusks.

As poachers kill off males with the largest tusks, elephants with shorter tusks — younger males and females — become more frequent targets.regions may even exceed the slaughter of the late 1970s.

The consequences could affect elephants, other large wildlife, and perhaps the future of iconic reserves such as Serengeti National Park.

As a result, more than 15,000 elephants are estimated to have been recruited into the population in 2006 and, if current rates of increase continue, the number of elephants born in these populations between 2005 and 2010 will be larger than the currently estimated total number of elephants in Central and West Africa combined.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

However, in 1913 and 1914, more finds were made at Piltdown, including a canine tooth intermediate in size between that of apes and humans, and a unique carved artifact made from a large piece of elephant bone that because of its shape became known as the «cricket bat».

Based on a novel by Jules Verne, this science fiction story introduces audiences to a curious world where elephants are the size of small dogs and bees loom as large as single engine airplanes.

Good, then, that the reins have passed from «Hunger Games» helmer Gary Ross to Francis Lawrence — a director with a firm grasp of large - canvas filmmaking, equally skilled at tense, white - knuckle sci - fi («I Am Legend») and bald, unapologetic romance (as evidenced by his excellent yet underseen circus swooner, «Water for Elephants»).

Beyond extolling personal virtue and effort, the story of the hummingbird also suggests that the single bird's actions are futile without the assistance of the larger animals — such as the elephant, who could of course carry much more water — or the concerted effort of all the animals to do something.

No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:

The diversity of Africa is extraordinary and includes the African bush, mountains, beautiful colors, diverse tribes and people groups, exotic large animals such as Zebras and Elephants and some of the most exquisite wonders including the Egyptian pyramids.

As the world's largest land mammal, elephants are designed for almost constant movement, and wild elephant herds easily travel over thirty miles a day on soft soil and varied terrains.

Imaging services provided include a variety of specialties for all species of animals, including: companion animals, such as dogs and cats; large animals, such as horses and cows; and exotic animals, such as birds and iguanas, or zoo animals such as tigers and elephants.

Situated across the second wing of the villa and accessed via the courtyard is the Safari Room - the epitome of jungle fever accentuated by a large wardrobe painted with safari animals such as elephants, giraffes and other exotic animals.

You can relax in the bubbles while taking in views of the Kapamba river and a nearby plain where the natural springs attract large herds of free - roaming game such as thirsty elephants, lions, and large herds of buffalo.

You'll also find the largest free - roaming population of black rhino and desert elephant, as well as 25 % of the world's cheetah in Namibia.

As we sat back and watched the interactions in awe and amusement, several elephants wandered into the scene, with one of the larger, feisty baboons at one point standing up on his hinds legs and directly facing off with an elephant — until the elephant made it clear who would prevail by grunting and aggressively moving his front legs.

Luckily, the large bull chose a path right between our two caravans of jeeps, and an elephant parade make its way just steps away from us for the next 20 minutes as a golden hue descended around us, an amazing way to end the evening.

A bull southern elephant seal is about 40 % heavier than a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), more than twice as heavy as a male walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), [3][4] and six to seven times heavier than the largest living terrestrial carnivorans, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and the Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).

The southern elephant seal is found in the Southern Hemisphere on islands such as South Georgia and Macquarie Island, and on the coasts of New Zealand, South Africa, and Argentina in the Peninsula Valdés, which is the fourth - largest elephant seal colony in the world.

From observation areas above the sands, watch bellowing bull elephant seals as large as minivans battle for territory, while quieter, smaller females nurture their plump, cigar shaped pups.

In the Santa Barbara Channel, you can find over 30 marine mammal species including whales, dolphins, and elephant seals, as well as marine life ranging from tiny sea stars and anemones to blue whales (the largest animals in the world).

From observation areas above the sands, watch bellowing bull elephant seals as large as mini-vans battle for territory, while quieter, smaller females nurture their plump, cigar - shape pups.

During the rainy season, the Kennedy Vlei is littered with flamboyant colours from the seasonal wild flowers that emerge as the first rains begin and, as the grass dries out, large herds of buffalo, zebra and elephant are in abundance.