Sentences with phrase «near any human settlements»

Thousands of glaciers perch near human settlements, and in recent decades, dozens of surges have claimed lives.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

«If we can identify where and why these extremely high levels of use are occurring, particularly near human settlements, policymakers and health workers can work to reduce extreme exposures near agricultural communities via information campaigns or farmer outreach,» Larsen explained.

And what happens to the cubs that were sheltered near human settlements?

When researchers in Sweden found some mother bears and their cubs living near human settlements, they wondered whether it might be a reproductive strategy — a way of protecting their young from killer males.

When we last left Bilbo, Thorin and the company of dwarves at the end of Hobbit 2, they had succeeded in severely hacking off Smaug the Dragon, who set off in high dudgeon to torch the nearest human settlement.

Wolves found easy pickings in the garbage heaps near human settlements, and, as the wolves became more accustomed to humans and vice versa, humans probably found equally easy pickings among the wolf cubs.

Consequently, cat populations reach high densities near human settlements, so they impose relatively strong hunting pressure on prey populations (Baker et al. 2005; Sims et al. 2008; Thomas et al. 2012).

Many crews employ a warm body to watch the recording cables at night, when working near any human settlements.

Not exact matches

Efforts to protect wildlife, for instance, have brought animal populations perilously near to human settlements: Beaver dams cause floods, deer carry tick infestations, geese get sucked into plane turbines.

«There are far more human settlements and activities near the slopes of glaciated active volcanoes today than there were 10,000 years ago, so the effects could be catastrophic,» he says.

Only three archaeological sites within the desert have been searched for evidence of human settlement, all of which stand near streams.

This settlement existed from approximately 7,100 to 6,000 BC and is considered to be the most significant site in the Near East that affords any insight into the development of human habitats.

The highest densities during island - wide trapping were near areas of human settlement (Fig. 1).

There are many such sites in Cenderawasih Bay, near to villages, although the rubbish that human settlements create can be rather off - putting, a problem common to many shallow sites throughout Indonesia.