Sentences with phrase «large wild population»

Mauritius is home to a large wild population of long - tailed macaques, which are valued in research in part because they are free of certain simian viruses.

South - East Asia's Tonkin snub - nosed monkeys are in bigger trouble than we thought, with low genetic diversity among the largest wild population

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AquaCo Farms has a grow - out facility designed to be one of the largest, most sought after and credible fish source for Pompano, with zero impact on the wild population.

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

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.

The research team compared these sounds against the largest available database of orangutan calls collected from over 12,000 hours of observations of more than 120 orangutans from 15 wild and captive populations.

A new analysis of 600 fish populations (including the bluegill, pictured), reported online today in Nature, suggests that large guts help fish deal with feast or famine conditions in the wild.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization Panthera has published the largest gene - based survey of its kind on wild jaguar populations in Mesoamerica.

The Taimyr reindeer herd in the northernmost region of Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world and a key of source of food for the indigenous population of the Taimyr Peninsula.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

To try to tease out the relationship between social rank, stress, and health, Altmann teamed up with Elizabeth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Susan Alberts, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to analyze data collected from 1982 through 2009 in the Amboseli region of Kenya, home to a large population of wild baboons.

The Spanish government should rescind approval of a veterinary drug that threatens Europe's largest population of wild vultures, researchers argue in a letter published online yesterday in Conservation Biology.

«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it killed 90 % of the cattle and large proportions of domestic oxen used to pull plows, and decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest populations.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

Elise Huchard, Christina Albrecht, Susanne Schliehe - Diecks, Alice Baniel, Christian Roos, Peter M. Kappeler, and Markus Brameier, «Large - scale MHC class II genotyping using next generation sequencing of a wild lemur population», Immunogenetics, vol.

«We found that while hybridisation has not compromised the genetic distinctiveness of wolf populations, a large number of wild wolves in Eurasia carry a small proportion of gene variants derived from dogs, leading to the ambiguity of how we define genetically «pure wolves».

Future studies, including data from larger sample sizes of wild - born and geographically well - defined individuals, and full Y - chromosome sequences from bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, promise to further our understanding of population histories, male - biased behaviours, mutation processes, and the functions of Y - chromosomal genes.

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.

Rural areas are not the only concern, as rat populations in some inner cities can be far larger than in the wild.

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

Along with the largest population of West Indian flamingos in the world, the park has over 140 species of native and migratory birds, wild donkeys and hogs.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

Islay is a beautiful and fertile Island and hosts a fantastic and varied population of birds and wildlife, due to the varied habitat, large wild areas and generally mild climate it is home to many species that are scarce across the rest of the UK.

Large tidal activity and clean cold water support healthy populations of wild salmon and bottom fish.

The island also supports a large population of feral pigs, which are no doubt responsible for the decline in sightings of pumilus in the wild by Nature Conservancy personnel and others.

Keep your eyes peeled for some of the 360 - plus species that have been recorded here, from orange - chinned parakeets and hummingbirds to one of Costa Rica's largest remaining wild populations of scarlet macaws.

Does your dream adventure consist of witnessing the magnificent herds of wildebeest stampeding through the Serengeti, are you in search of rare encounters with Africa's largest elephant population in Chobe, or catching remarkable glimpses of wild gorillas as you trek through their natural habitats in Rwanda?

The Komodo National Park is home to a rare diversity of animals; wild deer, water buffalo and monkeys roam the undulating hills making prey for a population of the world's largest lizard, the famous Komodo dragon.

Carara is home to one of the largest remaining populations of wild scarlet macaws in the country.

This island especially boasts one of the largest wild flamingo populations in the world, and birds to be spotted include woodpeckers, hummingbirds, pelicans, a variety of duck species, herons and cormorants.

Paradise Magnetic Island is home to 26 gorgeous bays, North Australia's largest wild koala population and seasonal waterfalls, explore it all with this 3 night package.

By some accounts it's attributable to the large population of wild cats that once featured on the island.

Belize is also home to the largest population of jaguar's living in the wild, but the best way to see them is up close and personal during a trip to Belize Zoo.

Needless to say, there's a lot to discover and stretching 1,600 km along India's west coast, the Ghats is also home to tigers, leopards, the elusive black panther and the world's largest population of wild Asian elephants.

JA And a new film The Great Silence (2014), centers on the world's largest radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, home to the last remaining wild population of a critically endangered species of parrots.

We are also putting enormous pressure on populations of wild species, both by hunting in the developing world and by large - scale industrial fishing in our seas.

[Tweet This] The real problem is not that small band of macho men and women who (for reasons that are beyond me) enjoy paying large sums to money to hunt wild animals but our modern life - styles and our ever - increasing population.»

Cortez» invasion was brutal but large numbers of horses escaped into the wild and were absequently domesticated by the native population.

Feral cats — wild cats that live independently of humans, but are descended from domestic ones — have established invasive populations over large swaths of Australia, but there has long been debate about just where in fact they came from, Australia being an island and all.

Islay is a beautiful and fertile Island and hosts a fantastic and varied population of birds and wildlife, due to the varied habitat, large wild areas and generally mild climate it is home to many species that are scarce across the rest of the UK.