Sentences with phrase «modern animals»

In the early days of modern animal behavior study two primary schools of thought dominated the field.

The clicker is widely regarded as the greatest breakthrough in modern animal training.

The rib, he and his colleagues report, absorbed infrared light in wavelengths that match those of collagen from modern animals.

It's a pattern found in many modern animals dwelling in land and sea.

Modern animal training these days is for the most part based on the rewarding world of positive reinforcement.

Ancient animals, however, might give us an insight into how modern animals might fare with our predicted climate change.

These new findings suggest modern animals had a common ancestor with a surprisingly complex genome, whose descendants subsequently kept or lost various genes.

The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.

Modern animal feeding operations also often put very large numbers of cows, chickens, or other animals in close quarters, sometimes in a single building.

These cards are compatible with all three modern Animal Crossing games.

A grid of modern animal prints keeps the room playful.

Rather, the rising levels of oxygen in the oceans became the trigger for complex life - forms to attain mobility and features of modern animals.

Dubbed the «Animal Palace,» the Falkenberg Animal Home serves as a shining example of the possibilities of modern animal sheltering.

A new study led by Adelaide researchers has estimated, for the first time, the rates of evolution during the «Cambrian explosion» when most modern animal groups appeared between 540 and 520 million years ago.

by David Legg * 1 Introduction: The Palaeozoic era was a time of incredible biological diversification, which saw the origins and establishment of most modern animal body plans and phyla, particularly during the Cambrian explosion, an event which lasted for about 20 million years during the early Cambrian Period (starting about 542 million years ago), and the subsequent Great Ordovician biodiversification event.

Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.

This provides GHS an opportunity to move forward, as the current building does not allow for modern animal sheltering practices or expanded service offerings.

Adrienne has worked at multiple multi-doctor, AAHA accredited, modern animal hospitals in many roles including management, trainer, head tech, etc..

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

We thank Veterinary Practice News for this opportunity to respond and inform about the good things that are happening in modern animal agriculture.

«If it had a physiology like modern animals we would then say that this animal was warm - blooded like a bird or mammal,» says Showers.

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

There is a need to start short - term courses on farm management practices, modern animal management practices, etc. for milk producers, with adequate grants from government to institutes providing such courses.

Microbiologist Lance Price at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 16 explained that modern animal production methods are virtually designed to create antibiotic resistant bacteria.

These proxies seemed to indicate that oxygen concentrations in the oceans rose in several steps, approaching today's sea - surface concentrations at the start of the Cambrian, around 541 million years ago — just before more - modern animals suddenly appeared and diversified.

Camouflage — in particular, clever patterns of skin pigmentation — helps many modern animals hide from predators in plain sight.

Charles Elton, founder of modern animal ecology, has described how Huxley inspired him as an undergraduate, introduced him to key biological problems while on expeditions to Spitsbergen, and then leant on him to write his seminal book Animal Ecology, in a series edited by Huxley.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

As the authors explain, «This period, the Pliocene, is critical to understand the origins and evolution of Australia's unique modern animals.

Dr Ville Friman, from the University of York's Department of Biology, said: «In modern animal husbandry, animals are reared in high density to maximize food production.

Witmer continues to dissect modern animals, looking for tiny, signature bone structures that they might share with fossil dinosaurs.

Biomolecules (such as DNA, proteins and lipids) that make up modern animals contain information about how their bodies work (physiology — that is, physical and chemical functions), relationships to other animals and their evolutionary histories.

Studies of modern animal teeth and jaws helps inform about wear patterns on fossils.

Preventive care and modern animal medicine is at the core of everything we do.

Genevieve Cahill has been a Certified Veterinary Technician since 2001 and is the owner of Modern Animal Behavior.

It includes a new modern animal shelter with double the kennel space to care for 100 shelter dogs and 200 shelter cats, «real life rooms» which closely mimic a home environment, adoption space to work with clients, education, and training space for youth programs, and behavior and training classes.

Turtles and crocodilians have a legacy that indeed stretches back in time to the age of the dinosaurs, but serpents, surprisingly to many, are actually a very modern animal that seems to have had its earliest origins in the middle of the Jurassic Period.

To learn more about this and other university programs that involve modern animal training, visit the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas.

The findings, published online today in the journal Current Biology, resolve «Darwin's dilemma»: the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period.

«It could allow some of the molecular and genetic studies done on modern animals to be potentially used on dinosaur samples.»

This means that all the key genetic prerequisites for modern animals...

Society Hill Veterinary Hospital is a full - service, modern animal hospital dedicated to providing pet owners of Philadelphia with access to the best that modern veterinary care has to offer.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

They affect not only our thoughts but, and this is essential if animals are to benefit, our actions.They make us sit up and want to do something to stop the cruelty that so many modern animals are caught up in.

The first animals arose on this «Snowball Earth», but these «Ediacarans» did not look like modern animals.

In fact, Martin argues that «the evolutionary paths taken by most modern animals, whether these are crocodilians, turtles, birds, lungfish, amphibians, earthworms, insects, crustaceans, or mammals, are connected to their burrowing ancestors.»