Sentences with phrase «mating calls»

Experience a dawn chorus The countryside is alive with birdsong in spring, and sunrise is the best way to experience the summer migrants back from a winter in warmer climates, and the unique mating calls and songs ringing through the air.

God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love

I was able briefly to hold Aster, a two - year - old male (in the picture with Mai Ueda) at the Lone Pine zoo, and watched for awhile as healthy males traded bellowing mating calls.

When trapping feral cats we explain to the community that TNR is a humane alternative to eradication, and that nuisances such as fighting and mating calls will be eliminated when the cats are returned to their colonies.

When mating calls were loud, more fish were present.

It had already been known that Saccopteryx males, beside their mating calls, present a self - made «perfume» to the females during courtship.

These mating calls are generated by superfast muscle fibers that surround the fishes» swimbladders and undergo rapid cycles of contraction and relaxation in order to make these gas - filled organs vibrate.

In this case, the researchers focused on the loud, croaking, mating calls produced by some species of frogs.

Halfwerk's team wanted to find out what happened if the mating calls were obscured by background noise, so they arranged the robot - frogs in such a way that some could only be detected by their croaking while others could also be detected by bats using echolocation.

Frogwatch All across the United States The American Association of Zoos and Aquariums» FrogWatch program enlists amphibian fans from coast to coast to track local frog and toad species by identifying the animals» mating calls.

Hunting bats don't just listen out for male frogs» mating calls: they can also use echolocation to detect when the frogs inflate their throat sacs

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

The researchers suggest using a combination of modern, non-lethal techniques to confirm a species» existence including high - resolution photography and audio recordings of sounds or mating calls.

Reproductive isolation is the key to understanding how new species form, and many types of barriers can divide a population and split it into two different groups: geographic (such as a mountain range, desert, ocean or river), morphological (a change in coloration, body type or reproductive organs), behavioral (a change in breeding season, mating calls or courtship actions), and others.

Male animals often use mating calls to attract females, but the hoot - dash is peculiar.

The researchers say the finding is the first evidence for an evolutionary trade - off between mating calls and sperm production.

Researchers have developed the first commercially available, hi - tech cane toad trap using the invasive species» mating call as a lure for breeding females.

Those early «Revisionists» did blatantly discard many Scriptures even those that declared Adam had a 1st meet / mate called Lilith!

Another fascinating nature display is Boulders, the part of Table Mountain National Park that is host to hundreds of African penguins (formerly jackass penguins for their braying - like mating call).

We ALL know the club is run as a cash making machine for the board and a collateral trading ca4d for silent Stan (or c@nt) as me and my mates call him and that's all it is its funded by the fans, supported by the fans and followed by the fans but it's DEFINITELY NOT for the fans.

Hey Mr Admin... I'm a JustArsenal celebrity...» Get Me Out Of Here»... Or find me a mate called «Friday»?

They did, far more frequently on days when Yorzinski, then a postdoc biologist at Duke University, played a particular peacock mating call, called a hoot - dash, than when she played nothing.

Jurassic Cricket Biologists in Beijing determined the mating call of a 165 - million - year - old male katydid by measuring fossils of the noisemaking apparatus in the insect's wings.

The mating call of certain Hawaiian male crickets attracts a fly that deposits parasitic larvae.

The microscopic belly hairs on the male freshwater Micronecta may help amplify its mating call.

A female white - spotted frog responds to the mating call by entering into the bamboo section to lay her eggs on the inner walls of the section, leaving after the male frog has fertilised the eggs.

But it's not the howl of a vengeful soul that you're hearing — instead, it's the mating call of a wapiti, or male elk.

Moreover, because calcium pumping requires energy, the low levels of calcium release also lower the metabolic demands of making a continuous, hour - long mating call.

Thus, to sustain an hour - long mating call, the midshipman muscle releases, and subsequently pumps, only two times as much calcium as the toadfish uses to make intermittent calls over the same time period.

«The combination of fast calcium pumping and small calcium release permits the midshipman to maintain the correct balance of calcium ions during its long - lasting mating call,» Rome says.

If you're in the right place at the right time, you'll even hear their mating call; a loud grunt can be heard during or after they have lifted a particularly heavy set of weights.

He's explaining the mating call of a South American tree frog, or the mating dance of a rare bird.

Like a mating call, an air kiss is a demonstration of your affection for someone.

The last male Kauai O'o bird sings its sweet mating call, but the viewer soon learns female Kauai O'o birds no longer exist.

After that mating call, she might have some ideas of making you her husband...

The towboat turned the prow into the wind and the mate called out, «Stand by for a starboard tack.»

The afternoon sessions at this year's London Book Fair Digital Conference kicked off with a coordinated mating call to publishers from the world of mobile.

The Apple Tablet A lot of the concept videos and mock - ups floating around the Web can be likened to publishers sounding a mating call to Apple.

Horse fans will love riding through the rainforest with its incredible fauna, surrounded by the sounds of birds, and the deep mating call of the howler monkeys.

This game, along with its Activision stable - mate Call of Duty 3, is something of a technical curiosity.

Continuing an investigation into evolution and the divide between animals and humans, Conley's project for ArtPace centers on a species of frog and its distinct mating call.

As the balloon slowly deflates, it forces air through several acoustic sound - generating devices to a funnel directed at the viewer, issuing a series of discordant noises — the frog's mating call.

Because the mating call is the only language in which the frog is able to communicate, this first moment of «contact» between human and frog is loaded with absurd sexual innuendo.

Closer to home, when we lived on a dirt road in the Hudson Valley (we now live in a village), my son, wife and I experienced the value of silence and sound as a male woodcock chose our back field and the sky overhead for its dusk mating flight, a ritual that includes a spiraling descent to the ground and mating call.

Based on their size, male koalas should have a mating call that sounds like a human baby's cry.

Across species, the females have evolved to moan during sex as a mating call informing other male.members of the tribe that she is open for business.

The tiny coqui came to Hawaii from Puerto Rico some 15 years ago and, now thriving, is causing a stir with its shrill mating call that residents liken to airport noise.

Not exact matches

Mated to an eight - speed automatic with three somewhat baffling driving modes, called «DNA» (D for «Dynamic» is the sporty one), the motor is peppy and crisp.

It's called geo - dating; it uses your smartphone's location to identify potential mates nearby.

Geladas live in an open grassland habitat and typically produce loud vocal calls during mating, so the dominant male should be able to easily detect any infidelity and stop it from happening.