Sentences with phrase «larger than male»

The Steller males max weight of 2500 lbs (1120 kg) is much larger than the male California sea lion with a max up to 400 kg (900 lbs).

For nearly all raptor species migrating and residing in the Marin Headlands and all over the world, the female is actually larger than the male.

Male Siberian Huskies are also a bit larger than a male Pomeranian as well.

A lot of female dogs grow larger than male dogs.

The male golden retriever, standing up to 24 inches tall and weighing between 65 and 75 pounds is much larger than the male cocker spaniel, who weighs in at a mere 24 to 28 pounds at 15.5 inches tall.

Female mosquitofish (top row) are larger than males and often display a distended abdomen due to pregnancy (mosquitofish are live - bearing fishes).

Female gall crabs are about two times larger than males.

Among spiders, including Papua New Guinea's giant wood spider (Nephila maculata), females are often much larger than males, making courtship dicey.

We are investigating the genes that are the target of this pathway, how it influences the cells of growing worms, the size differences between the sexes (hermaphrodite worms are larger than males), and the way in which it mediates signals from the environment.

- A significant relationship between sell size and righting performance; with bigger tortoises struggling to right themselves more than smaller tortoises, a phenomenon far more pronounced in males than females (Female tortoises grow larger than males).

Females can grow larger than the males, which reach only about 6» long.

In this case, females usually grow larger than the males.

The average size is 25 feet (7.5 meters) and the females are larger than the males like most other sharks.

It is the largest fish in the world and females are larger than males like most sharks.

Females tend to be a little larger than males.

Females are generally much larger than males.

Gray whales are medium sized whales, reaching up to 45 feet (14 m) in length, with the females usually being larger than the males.

Not exact matches

A large, long - term study of male smokers found that those who regularly took Vitamin A were more likely to get lung cancer than those who didn't.

These days, as more teenage boys ponder forgoing college for high - tech jobs or starting their own companies, his young male audience seems larger than ever.

Yet more than three out of four new male directors have no prior experience on corporate boards, according to a study of the largest publicly traded companies from ISS Analytics.

That's better than average, which was 79 percent male for large Silicon Valley tech companies in 2016.

When a company's core values emphasized meritocratic values, those in managerial positions awarded a larger monetary reward to the male employee than to an equally performing female employee.

Despite these limitations, the authors believed that the large and diverse sample from multiple schools permitted statistically valid analyses and used 5 measures of muscle - enhancing behavior, which provided a «more comprehensive picture of muscle - enhancing efforts among a US sample of male and female youth than has been available previously.»

The advantage to this is that when the diaper is used on larger children where the hip snap can't be used, that hip snap on the tab is a female snap which is more comfortable than a male snap against baby's skin.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

Active genes, i.e. those that produce a large amount of RNA, seem more likely to be retained than less active genes; and genes that are more active in males than in females also persist for longer.

Olsson suggests that this is because larger males live more stressful lives than other lizards: they engage in more contests for female partners and are more likely to be attacked by predators.

Hunt and his colleagues drew on large collections of ostracod fossils from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Louisiana State University, as well as additional fossils they collected themselves, to investigate whether species in which this male / female distinction was most prominent had been more vulnerable than others to changes in their environments.

Strikingly, despite the overall tendency for male brains to be larger, 10 of these regions had more modulatory neurons in females than in males.

«We showed that when males are larger and more elongated than the females, those species tend to not last as long in the fossil record.

That's slightly less than one - fifth the weight of a large African elephant, but about 5 % more than an average male giraffe, the largest living ruminants, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

The cats, she told a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, soon divided the house up into «home ranges», which were larger for males than for females.

It turned out the females descended from large - mandibled males had smaller - than - normal abdomens — a trait that is good for males, because it helps them carry the mandibles» weight, but bad for females, who need large abdomens to carry their eggs (Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cub.2010.10.023).

Researchers studying the collared flycatcher know that about 40 % of females have affairs, typically with males sporting a larger - than - average white spot on their foreheads.

The two sides of the brain were exposed to the same mix of hormones during development, yet the song circuit was much larger on the male side of the creature's brain than on the female side.

Females of the new species are roughly the same size as their previously studied relatives, but males are tens of thousands of times larger than those of other Osedax worms, and are roughly the same size as the females.

Their efforts are part of a larger push to study more than 300 known genetic hair disorders, which range from rare diseases detected in a few dozen families to male - pattern baldness, which affects hundreds of millions.

And in larger groups where up to three males are trying to impregnate the females — as opposed to «haremlike» groups where one male has all the gals to himself — «investing in sperm competition would be more cost - effective than investing in energetic vocal displays.»

But human males are typically larger than females.

They include traits linked to competition between males such as men on average being larger than women, a pattern that characterises nearly all polygynous species, along with males being more inclined to violence.

Merluzzi surveyed 145 management - level employees regarding workplace dynamics at two large U.S. firms that were primarily male - dominated environments, with women representing less than one - third of the workforce and under 15 percent of the senior management.

All inmates were between 18 and 65 years of age, and slightly more than half were white, with the largest proportion of minorities being African - American (31.5 % and 21.5 % respectively for males and females), followed by Native American (7.7 % and 13.2 % respectively by gender).

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

«While females who identify with being more masculine are at risk for a higher BMI than their more feminine peers, males who identify as being masculine face a larger challenge: both higher BMI and more rapid BMI gains.»

Blanco and his colleagues think male short - tailed opossums may have gained their large teeth initially for sexual display rather than for hunting: competition between males is particularly acute because these opossums breed only once in their lifetime.

Falk suspects the size discrepancy can be linked to the philandering tendencies of our primate ancestors.Falk found that like humans, male rhesus monkeys had larger brains than females, while male and female gibbon apes were equally endowed.

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

An independent, large - scale study in Sweden found that teenage males who eat fish weekly have intelligence scores 7 percent higher than do those who eat fish less often.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in females.

The offerings, and the male himself, appear larger than life because of an effect that visual scientists call the Ebbinghaus illusion, which causes an object to look bigger if it is surrounded by smaller objects.