Sentences with phrase «like spawning salmon»

Not exact matches

Like salmon, river herring return to spawn in the same river where they hatched.

After all, humans aren't like salmon, which spawn, age and die on a schedule.

The team also gathered data on seabird and fish populations that feed in the sea and then come onto land — like ocean - going salmon that move up rivers to defecate, spawn, and die.

While they can use their sense of smell to get back home to spawn, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) have an inborn sense of direction that functions like a GPS.

Dams like the Grand Coulee Dam, 551 feet high, blocked — and continue to block - salmon passage back to their spawning grounds.

Coastal brown bears are the largest of the grizzlies, growing big off of abundant protein sources like salmon caught in rivers during spawning season.

And as the market slows down further in the sunset of 1994, those hangers - on, faced with the reality of a very successful shift of expenses from the broker to the salesperson, will not be noble like the salmon and spawn before they die, they will just turn belly up and smell.»