Sentences with phrase «longest migration route»
Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and Alaskan waters to the warmer waters off the Mexican coast.
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The corridor has been considered a potential route for human and animal migrations between the far north (Alaska and Yukon) and the rest of North America, but when and how it was used has long been uncertain.
Since 2000, the reindeer's summer grounds have moved a bit to the east and north, meaning that the animals» migration route is now longer.
Who taught them where to go during migration, how to return to the same neighborhood or even the same tree after a long winter, what route to take, how to build a nest (with no hands), what materials to use, how to recognize intruders eggs, how to lure predators away from their young, how to use tools to break open hard foods or different tools to reach into crevices too deep for their bills, how to survive bitter cold winters, how to talk, etc... And don't ever tell me they don't feel emotion!
«The rich diversity of New Orleans has developed over a long history of colonization, the trans - Atlantic slave trade, waves of migration and displacement, and Gulf Coast trade routes buoyed by the city's position as the American South's largest port.
In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.
• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).
The positive effects of climate change — such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes — may be offset by negative factors such as changes in established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships.