Sentences with phrase «natural predators»

Although the appetite of each individual chicken may vary, overall, chickens are a good natural predator of ticks on cattle.

A green sea turtle can live up to 80 years in the wild and once they have reached maturity they have few natural predators in the oceans.

Or getting breeds that are susceptible to being killed by natural predators when left in the back yard.

Without natural predators, they can take over ecosystems and cause a lot of harm.

These problems are usually due to frustration and natural predator instincts.

They kill beneficial insects alongside harmful ones, which means that once farmers start using pesticides they often have to keep using them because there are fewer natural predators to help control pest populations.

The cats are introduced predators and not at all a part of the wildlife or natural predator prey relationships.

All of these animals are natural predators of fleas.

With two natural predators in the same place, it doesn't take long for the tables to turn on who's really in charge.

Animals at the top of the food chain, such as sharks, have few natural predators, so they are slow to mature and have very few young.

Preferred homes to be Ranch or Farm setting, these dogs are excellent guardians for livestock in areas with natural predators such as wolves, bears, coyotes, or mountain lions.

Due to the absence of natural predators on the islands, the animals seemed unafraid of humans.

The strategy may have saved them from natural predators such as hawks, the researchers suggest, but it proves fatal for dealing with highway cars and other vehicles traveling above 120 kilometers per hour.

There are a number of ways to do this, from encouraging natural predators such as birds, frogs and hedgehogs to using slug pellets, salt, garlic washes and copper bands, but being prompt and proactive are the keys to success.

The only natural predators of Gray Whales are Orcas (killer whales) and large sharks.

The fact that he's willing to do it makes him a teacher... and a person that doesn't take magical burning bushes and big boats where natural predators all get along fairy tales at their word.

Red Hat growers use natural predators — or «good bugs» — to combat pests, and bumblebees are used in all tomato greenhouses for natural pollination.

Usually, narwhals will escape natural predators such as killer whales by stealthily slipping under ice sheets or huddling in spots too shallow for their pursuers, Williams says.

Though I dislike gutting deer, I do it to have meat to eat and to control the population (they can not get enough of a harvest in my area and natural predators just do nt exist).

And now that there's some solid evidence for why so many lizards have these stripes, it opens up all kinds of new questions, he says, along with providing a basis for future work with more natural predators.

I would say that it is essential, as we are physically inferior to pretty much any major natural predator, so the only way we could have possibly survived and come this far is by being smarter than the other species.

As an example of using organic mechanisms to control pests, one of Organic Crop Protectant's products, Eco Oil, attracts natural predators such as lady beetles to attack plant pests such as scale, aphids, mites and leafminers.

The veteran Colombia sensation is a deadly natural predator.

«Our paper suggests it will require managing for top predator persistence across large landscapes, rather than just in protected areas, in order to restore natural predator - predator interactions,» said co-author Aaron Wirsing, an associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

In balanced ecosystems, natural predators keep prey species healthy, but PETA activists argue that bringing the wolf back to the American West is cruel.

Their chief natural predator, the once - statewide population of gray wolves, has been hunted nearly to extinction.

While natural predators and disease play a role in this shift, according to the World Wildlife Foundation, some of the biggest threats to turtles are hunting and poaching, pollution, and climate change.

WE ARE NATURAL PREDATORS PEOPLE.

Even worse is the nature footage Besson cuts in during the initial stages of Lucy's «recruitment,» which features natural predators and their prey.

The isolation of many islands and a lack of natural predators mean that insular species are often naive about new predators and lack appropriate defensive responses.

Foxes naturally eat the those birds, but they are kept in their place by more dangerous natural predators.

Using toys that encourage cats to chase affords the opportunity for these animals to act in a manner that taps into natural predator instincts, thereby promoting feline fitness and mental wellness that will allay anxiety.

Thanks to sustained efforts, from breeding foxes in captivity to removing natural predators, three of the fox's subspecies were removed from the federal list of endangered species, which the Department of the Interior calls the fastest - ever rescue.

Tawny nurse sharks have few natural predators if humans are not included.

Be careful out there, we're living in primitive times and natural predators love the sweet taste of Neanderthal meat — and that's you!

Neither axis deer nor mouflon sheep are native to Hawaii and don't have natural predators here.

It sprays vaporized grape skin extract, a mild irritant, and emits sounds of natural predators near the tower to keep birds away, he said.

The native animals, lacking natural predators on the islands, are defenseless to introduced predators.

After rewilding the area with indigenous species, the acreage is back to its natural field like beauty, with a revitalized local eco system and return of wildlife with natural predator and prey cycles.

Most incidents occur in the eastern U.S., where deer thrive without natural predators like wolves and mountain lions.

PREDATORS AND PARASITES Killer whales (orcas), the large sharks, and humans are the gray whales» only natural predators.

Tourists can help protect baby turtles from natural predators and hungry locals — people love turtle meat and turtle omelets.

Many farmers in Australia are now using integrated pest management where natural predators are substituted for chemicals wherever possible.

Three: They do the same kind of sorcery Disney does, and use natural predators and other entomological interventions to achieve the effect of pest control.

«Cats are natural predators of not just birds but also mammals — killing is what they are meant to do and it's not their fault,» said Marra.

That increased awareness was necessary, a reaction to the need to find food in a changing landscape, and a trade - off for the increased physical vulnerability that came with bipedalism in an era when roaming hominids had their share of natural predators.

Other carnivores on Ethiopia's Guassa Plateau, feral dogs and servals mostly, hunt the gelada monkeys — it would seem that the wolves would be a natural predator as well.