Sentences with phrase «many big mammals»

The bigger the mammal, the further a hunter would walk to catch it.»

In spite of their size, these big mammals were extremely vulnerable, as are modern elephants.

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

They were hunting dogs, used in groups to capture big mammals, such as pig dogs in Australia.

Why not celebrate the big day with some of the biggest mammals to roam the ocean?

The bigger mammals are easier to find in Uganda's largest national park, Murchison Falls.

BBC Two documentary Horizon: Dippy And The Whale, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, goes behind the scenes, but if you want to see the world's biggest mammal alive and fluking, book one of these marine - inspired trips...

The wildlife varies from little rare birds to big mammals.

Her favorite, Jacquelyn says, is a fungus that grew on the dung of big mammals.

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, to your baishunfu, and think about WHY you want to kill so many of the biggest mammal around.

Though small mammals suffered some losses, a third of their big mammal cousins (including mastodons, mammoths, and the short - faced bear) became extinct.

It was about the extinction event of the big mammals in North America about 13K years ago.

By then, Australia had lost roughly 88 per cent of its big mammal groups, South America 83 per cent, and North America 72 per cent.

Big Mammals Disappearing in Africa's National Parks 21 % of Africa's Freshwater Species Threatened With Extinction (Pics)

Not exact matches

You say the Bible is full of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.

You say the Bible is full of fairytales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.

Science ============= — Big bang (13.8 BYA)-- Star ignition (sun 4.57 BYA)-- Planetary accretion — Earth (4.54 BYA)-- Moon (4.53 BYA)-- Bombardment — Surface Water, toxic atmosphere — Simple vegetation — Oxygenated atmosphere — Aquatic life — Land animals — Birds — Mammals

Science --------- — Big bang (13.8 BYA)-- Star ignition (sun 4.57 BYA)-- Planetary accretion — Earth (4.54 BYA)-- Moon (4.53 BYA)-- Bombardment — Surface Water, toxic atmosphere — Simple vegetation — Oxygenated atmosphere — Aquatic life — Land animals — Birds — Mammals

At least Chambo finally got to start this cup game, and why they have named it after a big north American mammal is a mystery to me, but maybe he wishes he had not started or been anywhere near the place.

DR. STACEY MERLO: They are important for birth because human babies have the biggest head of almost any mammal that gets passed through and we're actually delivering babies earlier than their full term development because of the size of the head and all of us have had babies in the room and we know that that's the hardest part.

Hyraceum, also called «Africa stone,» is the petrified and rocklike excreta of the rock hyrax, a medium - size mammal that looks like a big guinea pig and whose closest living relative, oddly, is the elephant.

Bite: Adults feed on larger mammals and occasionally bite humans, but are big enough that they are usually noticed before they get the chance to spread disease.

They also suggest that metabolism increases with size more than an animal's ability to gather food, putting a boundary on how big aquatic mammals can grow.

The jaguar (Panthera onca)(Brazilian Portuguese: onça pintada) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four «big cats» in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

BIG DEATH: Some argue that widespread extinctions of large mammals, stretching as far back as 40,000 years ago, deserves recognition as the starting point of any human - induced epoch.

In newborn mammals, the SVZ is the biggest depot for the precursor cells that migrate to populate various brain regions, and differentiate into multiple cell types.

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts.

The result: On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.

«Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies.»

The two biggest cargo carriers, under activist pressure, affirm that they will not ship research mammals and nonhuman primates

«The big question about why we mammals affiliate with one potential partner versus another finally has a handle we can use in a small animal model,» says Lucy Brown at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

That big surprise reinforced a growing realization among geneticists: Our genomes and those of other mammals are far more flexible and complicated than they once seemed.

«We don't yet know whether cats or loss of habitat is the biggest contributor to the widespread mammal decline that we are seeing in Australia.

It will be a revelation to many how, not content with «dinosaurs», Hawkins, Owen and their colleagues planned just about every then - known fossil saurian and mammal big enough to be embodied in iron, concrete, rubber, brick and tile.

Since the Marine Mammal Protection Act covers seals, there was little that could be done to safeguard these salmon — until the 11 transients showed up for their big meal.

The analysis identifies habitat loss and hunting as the biggest reasons behind the decline of land mammals; marine species face additional threats, including pollution and accidental death in fishing nets.

Male mammals often compete with each other for females either by striving to be big and strong enough to monopolize one or more females (which is what gorillas do) or by striving to be sufficiently voluminous sperm producers to win sperm competition contests within females (which is what chimpanzees do).

Despite mechanized overharvesting, satellite fish tracking, and prolonged butchery of sea mammals, the ocean is still bigger than we are.

Comparing successful and unsuccessful invaders, he found that in both birds and mammals, big - brained species are more likely to be successful than are small - brained ones (pdf).

Abrupt climate changes may have predisposed big ice age mammals to extinction, argues new study

The biggest tract of virgin forest in the eastern United States, this park retained forest - dwelling mammals and birds long extinct in central Maryland.

Castorocauda lutrasimilis, 10 times as big as any other known mammal from that time, was different, hunting fish in Inner Mongolian lakes and rivers.

As a general rule, mammal species with big bodies tend to have big brains.

He argued that creating generation after generation of virgin - born mammals would not only help to improve and accelerate the breeding of livestock (producing big males for the sake of a little sperm slows down breeding), but would yield new insights into disease, genetics and the function of sex itself.

And you can see in the paleontological record that from that point on, the mammals burst forth, getting big, getting varied, taking over.

Mammals are not big on monogamy.

Based on the new study's findings, S. melilutra's jaws would have been strong enough to crush the shells of big mollusks or the bones of birds and small mammals like rodents, though what exactly it ate is unknown.

Without an aggressive, hands - on approach to wildlife management most big, charismatic mammals would today be extinct.