Sentences with phrase «many rabbit populations»

The rabbit population must be kept in some balance with others.

Persons concerned for the ecosystem have supported drastic reductions of rabbit populations by whatever means necessary.

But once this predator was removed, the rabbit population exploded.

«These two phenomena together led to a rebound of the rabbit population,» Rothenburg said.

At that time, the mortality rate of virus infection was nearly 100 percent and the release led to a huge decrease in the European rabbit population.

The team collected and sequenced DNA from 14 wild rabbit populations and from six domestic breeds.

Since then, many rabbit populations have grown resistant to the disease and in some places as many as 70 per cent of rabbits survive infection.

The Iberian lynx is threatened by poaching, road kills, habitat loss and lack of prey following a series of disease outbreaks in the rabbit populations.

Improvements in the rabbits» health through better nutrition and sanitation has made the raising and maintenance of rabbit populations easier, making them increasingly useful as a research tool.

Students then explore how the color of the rabbit population changes as the environment changes over time.

Rain, heat, famine and glut — there isn't anything that the ever - growing rabbit population doesn't encounter.

It's up to this brother and sister to keep the garden's rodent and rabbit population from overrunning the place, and Acer takes this job very seriously.

In some rabbit populations the rate of malignant uterine cancer (specifically called uterine adenocarcinoma) can approach 80 % of all the females.

This is caused by the myxoma virus, which is widely distributed in the wild rabbit population.

In the wild, rabbits stay trim, fit and healthy because they are surrounded by the foods they evolved to eat — rabbit populations thrive in areas that are full of hay, grasses, and other plants that help them reproduce successfully.

Neutering rabbits makes them happier and healthier and enables them to live as bonded pairs or groups, meeting social needs without increasing rabbit population.

Based on evidence cited by USFWS itself, it's clear that a dramatic reduction in the number of free - roaming cats in the Keys (assuming it's possible — see below) will very likely have a negative impact on the marsh rabbit population — and may well lead to their extirpation from any Key where these rats are present.

This is a flea that is specific for rabbits, it was released into Australia in 1993 to try and aid the spread of Myxomatosis in the wild rabbit population.

As the numbers of cats declined, the last having been killed in 2000, the rabbit population increased, to an estimated 100,000 by 2007 ---- and rabbit damage to bird nesting habitat proved far more damaging to the sea bird population than cat predation ever had been.

Do you think this program will continue to help the local rabbit population?

Myxomatosis This disease was originally used to control the rabbit population in France, but from there spread across the European continent, even to Britain, and over the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.

[23] Seabird populations responded rapidly, [24] but rats and rabbits population increased after the cats were culled, and continued to cause widespread environmental damage.

So if you've ever wanted to have your own wolf pack, fly like an eagle, ride a bear or even just have the entire rabbit population bow their fuzzy ears to you, this is the game.

In another poor attempt at taming the situation, scientists set the Myxoma virus (which spreads a disease called myxomatosis that is lethal to rabbits) upon an unsuspecting rabbit population, with brutally effective results.

As for the rest of your comment insisting that the laws of thermodynamics are being broken... I'm a hardcore, in your face, let's debate any time anywhere anybody but only the direct science not the bunny rabbit population in northern Alberta has declined one percent so that's why there is more snow in Europe this year SKEPTIC.

Not exact matches

Rabbits have been on the minds of the Grant Park advisory council for three years, as the population of the furry critters has exploded, wreaking havoc on the park's greenery.

Domestication practices were well known by then, Andersson says, and it's possible that French monks or farmers in Southern France with a taste for rabbit meat made an effort to round up bunnies that eventually became the founding population for the domestic rabbit.

It is therefore a lot easier to decimate a population of 100,000 mammoths than a population of 100,000 rabbits, which reproduce twice a year and birth by litter.

Mice, rabbit and foxes traverse farmland while other animals graze, all with the potential to become vectors for the resistant bacteria organisms and spread it throughout different animal populations,» said Pat Millner, a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist based in Maryland.

After studying population changes in 154 species of fish worldwide over 60 years, Pinsky was surprised to see marine equivalents of rabbits and mice collapsing to low levels — still shy of extinction but serious enough to disrupt ocean food chains or fishing - based societies.

When they compared records from before and after RHDV's arrival, they found that small mammal populations had skyrocketed in the years following the introduction of the rabbit virus.

Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»

Collaborating with management and regulatory agencies, farmers and ranchers to ensure that appropriate habitat, knowledge and management capacity are available to support viable populations of sage grouse, Columbia sharp - tailed grouse and pygmy rabbits.

Effective population sizes (Ne) in rabbits are on the order of 106 [21].

For comparison, our genome - wide estimates in rabbits are similar to that between human population groups, namely Africans, Caucasians, and Asians (FST ≈ 0.120)[31].

We have used genome - wide data and a population genetic approach to dissect the genetic basis of reproductive isolation in the European rabbit by taking advantage of natural hybridization between subspecies in the Iberian Peninsula.

The study, led by Penn State University scientists, assessed the infection dynamics of two species of soil - transmitted parasites in a population of rabbits in Scotland every month for 23 years.

«We hope to be able to adapt the Two Rabbits model to be effective within the population in Kachin State camps.

This activity uses a model of the Virtual Ecosystem with three species in it: grass, rabbits, and hawks, enabling the students to explore the effect of predation on the prey population.

btw I resisted discussing government interference / regulation in my post, because it's just another endless rabbit - hole... but let me just say: i) Investors are silly if they don't anticipate / price in the threat of arbitrary & draconian regulation — specifically from the two usual culprits, China & the US (Jamie Dimon wasn't wrong on that)-- so recent headlines should be no surprise, and ii) I suspect it may not matter in the end — more regulation could certainly hurt / blacklist the sector for some percentage of existing crypto - enthusiasts, but may also endorse the space for a much much larger population to finally consider it as an alternative / investment.

Although Ōkunoshima has a dark history of being Japan's secret chemical weapons production site during World War II, it has been reborn as a tourist attraction thanks to its huge population of wild rabbits.

From songbirds and squirrels to rabbits and raccoons, our county's wide array of wildlife faces the challenge of coexisting alongside the ever - growing population of people moving into their natural habitat.

RABBITS USA's FOCUS RABBITS USA is directed to the general population of rabbit owners and written for the adult audience and first - time owners of one of these pets.

While dogs are known to catch and kill rabbits, turtles, frogs and lizards, «outside» cats are by far more damaging to wildlife populations.

Napa Humane promotes a healthy and safe pet population by providing low cost vaccinations and microchipping for dogs and cats — and microchipping for rabbits.

Since 1993, we have been serving the very specialized population of pet birds and exotic animals including rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, sugar gliders, chinchillas, turtles, frogs, lizards, and snakes.

Coyotes control species and disease populations because their diet consists of rodents, rabbits, deer, birds, insects, and reptiles.

If the population of normal flora is eliminated, it is impossible for rabbits or guinea pigs to digest fiber properly.

Focusing on dogs, cats, and rabbits; RAIN hopes to make a difference in the homeless pet population.

It seems the best evidence of a declining population comes from two scientists who killed several hundred marsh rabbits 40 years ago.