Sentences with phrase «lower than a mammal»

A stocky six - foot - long carnivore that hunted smaller reptiles on the warm plains of what is now South Africa, it had a metabolism that was higher than a reptile's but lower than a mammal's.

Not exact matches

Whitehead's system is able to encompass the results, however: while the actual occasions constituting the central nervous system of bees are certainly of a lower degree of complexity than that of mammals, a bee brain contains thousands of interactive neurons, so that there is no a priori reason why the dominant occasion of the bee may not be capable of complex experiences in situations relevant to the bees» survival.

After all, they biologically expect to breastfeed and the fat content of our human milk is much lower than in other mammals, meaning our babies need to feed frequently to simply stay alive and grow.

Most domesticated mammals, including dogs, tend to have smaller bodies than their wild counterparts, with smaller skulls that have shorter, wider snouts and shorter, lower jaws.

This is exemplified by therian mammals, the lineage leading to placental mammals and marsupials, which were evolving 13 times faster than average in the mid-Jurassic, but which had slowed to a rate much lower than average by the later Jurassic.

Magalhães said whale cells must have a much lower metabolic rate than those of smaller mammals.

Killer whales, for instance, are known to swim away from areas where they have encountered sonar signals of about 142 decibels, a sound level lower than currently allowed by the U.S. Navy for its ships, Tyack said, referring to a 2014 study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that determined the mammals» likely response.

«The diversity of mammal species in Europe and North America today is much lower than in the past.

As a result, the Channel Islands have several rare endemics, lower species diversity than the mainland, and only 10 known species of terrestrial mammals (excluding bats)[25].

While the Cerrado has lower carbon stocks than the Amazon rainforest, it's a biodiversity hotspot: more than 3,000 plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibian species are unique to the region.