Sentences with phrase «live as a colony»

For cats, living in large groups is pretty unnatural (unless they are related cats which live as a colony around a source of food or are a neutered colony which again is quite self - selecting as to which cats stay around).

As part of a group exhibition Power Seen and Unseen at the Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural, Caracas, Nira Pereg will exhibit 67 Bows (2007) which examines the communal reaction of a large group of flamingos to the sound of gun shots, which lives as a colony nearby an artificial lake at the Karslsruhe Zoo.

Not exact matches

If a calamity, self - made or otherwise, destroyed life on Earth, as long as a human colony was established elsewhere, the species could endure.

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

A clonal colony, such as quaking aspen trees can live much longer, however.

Liberals believe all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as evidenced by the 13 colonies of liberal (for their time) folks on the North American continent.

This will in a few years become a German Colony: Instead of their Learning our Language, we must learn theirs, or live as in a foreign country.

An artists» colony of peasants began painting firing clay and writing poetry as a way of reflecting biblically on their living conditions.

Kombucha: Defined as a living beverage that is fermented using a blend of organic white, green or black tea (or blends), organic raw sugar and a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast (commonly called the SCOBY or Mother).

As the Living Invertebrate Specialist it is my job to make sure our adopted leaf cutter ant colony thrives in their new home.

Toay, researchers look to the microbiomes of people still living in traditional societies, such as the Yanomami, for clues about the bacterial colonies of our pre-industrial ancestors.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

Colonies of bacteria called biofilms live longer in Mars - like waters — especially if they were dried out first, as they would be after hitching a ride through space

These species live in the same areas as army ants, which attack their colonies.

The researchers point out that the popularity of TNR in the U.S. has been in part due to a goal of maximizing feral cats» quality of life (e.g. extended life span, vaccinations, assessment for infectious disease) and reducing undesirable behaviors such as aggression and vocalization while still eliminating colonies over time.

His face glowed with enthusiasm as he declared that this spirit, more than heroic adventures or romanticized challenge, is what makes the colony a rewarding place to live...

Within this framework, the researchers tracked the death of queen bees, which is a life - threatening event for the colony as a whole.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

«The formation of living structures such as the bridges is one of the most fascinating examples of the collective capabilities of ant colonies,» says Simon Garnier, a complex systems scientist with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who was not involved with this study.

For most living cells that's a deadly cocktail, but while some bacteria in the rock died as they were pounded on by the harsh space environment, a colony of bugs known as OU - 20 (they were sent up by the UK's Open University) resembling the cyanobacteria genus Gloeocapsa survived.

They therefore exhibit a level of social organisation that is intermediate between solitary insects, such as houseflies, and the highly social honeybees, which have colonies of many thousands of individuals with queens that live for several years.

But a siphonophore colony is made up of many parts that are each equivalent to free living organisms such as sea anemones and «true» jellyfish.

In short, they acted as if they all belonged to the same colony, despite living on different continents separated by vast oceans.

It may not possess an atmosphere, or have any type of life as we know it, but as a solid surface on which to settle a new colony of individuals, it might be just the very best that you can possibly do.

«Regardless of type, all termites live in highly cooperative colonies consisting of different castes, such as the kings and queens, the reproductive caste and the worker or non-reproductive caste,» Vargo said.

colony A group of organisms that live close together or share a home (such as a hive or other nest site).

But although you might think of yeast as growing in the featureless soup of a lab culture, wild yeast typically live a more structured life — in colonies.

The MMRRC can further assist you by deriving embryos and / or live mice from these cells and providing services such as: genetic screening, multi-tier phenotyping, barrier housing and colony management.

As I mentioned, unlike honey bees, these bees often don't live in large colonies or hives.

Kombucha is made when live organisms also known as the SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) or «The Mother», feast on sugar and produce a fermented fuzzy tea.

Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) is one such lunar exile who formerly made his living outside the law, but has since gone straight and now runs the hippest nightclub in the moon colony known as «Little America.»

As I struggled on minimum life support, water and oxygen generation were low, I gradually extended my colony outwards towards a crucial metal deposit, critical for repairing my solar energy farms.

On the dark streets of Draiga, a mining colony occupied by the Visray Empire, lives Azura, the last of a fearsome warrior race known as the Sarnians.

«Small Town Talk» tells Woodstock's story from its earliest days as a bohemian arts colony to its ongoing life as a cultural satellite of New York City.

The problem is that the climactic showdown is, well, anticlimactic and that what happened to the other colony comes as no surprise to anyone who has seen more than two movies in their entire life.

Cyprus's mix of ethnic Greeks and Turks lived in shaky peace as a British colony, but increasing nationalistic rhetoric from both Turkey and Greece sharpened identities and allegiances.

FREEDOM FROM THE FIRST FAMILY George Washington beat all odds to win the American colonies their independence, then surrendered his private life to serve as the nation's first president.

The London Company was founded by Stephen M. Goddard, CFA in 1994 as the dedicated investment advisor to First Colony Corporation, a publicly traded Life Insurance Company.

I have lived as part of a colony of kitties that some nice people have been caring for, trapping, spaying / neutering, and finding homes for, over the past 5 years.

however it is understandable that the airport is a unique situation as opposed to other feral cat colony locations - the safety of the airplanes needs to be strictly maintained because human lives could be in jeopardy.

However, for as long as the species we call the domestic cat (Felis catus) has existed, there have been feral cats living in colonies in piazzas (town squares) in Italy, down London alleys and in fields and cities around the world.

Given the poor quality of life that feral cats typically lead, as well as broader concerns such as environmental impact and public health, the goal of feral cat management programs should be to gradually eliminate feral cat colonies by a process of «aging out» their members.

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative and the Archdiocese of New York have agreed to restore daily care and feeding to eight feral cats living at the historic St. James Church in lower Manhattan as part of a spayed and neutered colony.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

However, just because a kitten was born outdoors, or a cat has been living in a colony does not mean they are destined to live their lives as community cats.

Finding forever homes for both kittens and stray cats as well as giving community (feral) cats secure lives in managed colonies; this great rescue has helped over 3,000 cats.

They help reduce cat overpopulation through natural attrition as opposed to euthanasia and allow for undomesticated felines to live out their lives in their colonies.

They defined «unowned» as farm cats living in barns, strays living outdoors that may be fed by humans, and feral cats that fend for themselves — all of which might live alone or in colonies.

The story ends happily with Smokey's adaptation to life as an indoor cat, just a block away from his former managed TNR colony.

They usually live in groups known as feral colonies.