Sentences with phrase «large predators»

In addition the park holds a variety of large predators that normally follow this large heard.

Even if the species has historically had this small of a population, it is curious that there are fewer counted than other large predators like killer whales or polar bears.

These dogs were renowned for their prominent roles as excellent hunters capable of hunting down large predators such as seals and bears.

But federal researchers say they are not a match for larger predators — particularly wolves — so they are testing bigger dogs to see if they are better guard dogs.

When they finish, they cover their waste to hide their presence from larger predators and more dominant cats.

We spend another summer with largest predators on continent, coming to know them, their characteristics and tendencies.

All the other dogs in the pack look to the alpha dog for leadership, in important survival issues like finding food and avoiding larger predators.

This is a result of their long working lineage, herding livestock and confronting large predators.

Form a cat - sized doorway with a box cutter or kitchen knife, keeping it small to prevent larger predators from getting in.

They share this trait with their wolf relatives and some other large predators who will bury a kill and return to it later.

Humans also have a primal relationship with large predators.

He worries, however, that in an effort to please tourists, game managers will increase the numbers of large predators in reserves, putting the cheetahs at greater risk of having their meals stolen out from under them.

The first is that in the wild cat's are often preyed upon by larger predators such as coyotes, wolves, owls, eagles, and other large birds and mammals.

Because dangerous mercury levels in some fish can impair a baby's brain development, the FDA recommends that you avoid eating large predator fish such as swordfish and king mackerel.

Coral Reef Snorkeling — Mauritius is surrounded by a protective wall of coral reefs which leave the water glassy and safe from larger predators like sharks.

His line of duty included defending the homestead, keeping large predators at bay and holding down wounded game.

As a result, the coordinated attack of a large colony of yellow jackets can drive even large predators away from the nest.

With its roots in Turkestan, the Kangal comes from an ancient lineage of mastiffs, guarding livestock such as sheep against large predators.

Paper co-authors Abel Valdivia at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco and Courtney Cox at Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida, surveyed 143 fish species at 110 sites across 43 Caribbean coral reefs that varied in the amount of fishing pressure sustained — ranging from marine preserves that banned all fishing to heavily fished reefs where large predator fish are almost gone.

«We now demonstrate that already in the Early Triassic large predators hunted in the seas,» adds Carlo Romano.

Owls are equipped to defend against any kind of threat and regularly defend their nests against much larger predators such as wolves and foxes.

Imagine a world with five times as many herbivores as we have today and twice as many large predators.

the chicken or the egg??? The egg developed when the chicken (aka - small dinosaur) evolved from giving live birth to laying eggs, after larger predators began dieing off.

That's a big human health concern in the Arctic, where people top the food chain, eating large predators such as seals and whales.

«Amphibians and dinosaurs were the new large predators after the mass extinction.»

Overfishing has slashed stocks — especially of large predator species — to an all - time low worldwide, according to new data.

where circulating large predators and the law of the jungle prevails.

Many species, particularly large predators such as some tuna and billfishes, sharks and turtles are being driven to dangerously low levels.

«It will be interesting to see the influence of large predators on smaller predators in other parts of the world, especially the role of the big cats such as jaguars, leopards, lions and tigers,» said co-author William Ripple of Oregon State University.

Teams of marine scientists are towing nets to scoop up plankton, tagging large predators to track their migrations, sequencing the DNA in seawater to hunt for microbes, and trawling the seafloor for bottom dwellers.

The artificial absence of wolves and other large predators gave cats, dogs, raccoons, and foxes license to grow fat on wild birds from the beaches to the mountainsides.

Herculano - Houzel expected large predators such as lions to have lots of neurons.

Slimonia acuminata may have had the range of motion to strike large predators and prey, researchers report online April 18 in American Naturalist.

Other researchers, however, including PennVet's Serpell, doubt human hunter - gatherers would have tolerated large predators near their camps — or that the resource - frugal humans would have left behind enough potential food to sustain a wolf - sized animal.

When President Richard Nixon signed an executive order restricting the domestic use of the poison known as Compound 1080 — a popular substance with no odor or taste used for decades to poison large predators, and used in McBride's collars — he sold them to ranchers in Mexico, Canada, Argentina, and South Africa.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Megafaunal extinctions have had enduring effects, simplifying ecosystems and eliminating large predators such as the dire wolf and saber - toothed tiger, large herbivores such as elephants and giant sloths, and the suite of large scavengers supported by these predator prey interactions.

The spots are a pair of false eyes that can glow, and are used to fool both victims and larger predators into thinking they are its actual eyes.

«Just like we check the weather before going boating or the surf forecast before surfing, information about the risk of encountering large predators can become a normal precaution we take before going into the ocean,» said first author Francesco Ferretti of Stanford University.

«Unfortunately, these two explanations were not lining up in explaining large predator movements in back yards, and even contradicted each other, especially when there could actually be more prey, like deer, available near people's homes,» said Blecha.

Sharks and other large predators make predictable hunting trips into the shallows during this time.

Coral reefs continue to decline in the Caribbean and worldwide, but curbing fishing practices that target large predator fish could help reefs recover, Allgeier said.

Resource subsidies, such as garbage or hunters» carcass dumps, can also support larger predator populations, leading to greater predation pressure.

The dogs were used as a protection and they could scare large predators such as leopards.

The complicated ecosystem of the reef supplies food and shelter to a huge variety of baitfish and small crustaceans that, in turn, attract larger predators.

This worked to detect large predators — imagining a leopard has low cost compared to not seeing a leopard — but the same talent leads to gross error — imagining a recession is expensive compared to not noticing a recession.