Sentences with phrase «living wild relatives»
Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.
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Vines bend under the weight of massive tangles of wild grapes, and two introduced bands of Przewalski's horses — the closest living relatives of Europe's original horses — roam free.
Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.
Their belugas have shorter lives than wild relatives, and the facilities have had mixed results breeding them in captivity.
And Wrecker, scared silent, furious, and hell - bent on breaking every last thing that crosses his path, is shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County.
Dogs are den animals, since their nearest wild relatives — wolves — live in small, dark, enclosed spaces dug into the ground.
Uganda is one of the last places in the world where you can see mountain gorillas in the wild, and this mascot of the Uganda Tourism Board is an ambassador for his real - life relatives in the forests.
We recognize the wealth of a land based economy because we have lived it, and, in our community on the White Earth reservation, we will continue to work to keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers present for all relatives.