Sentences with phrase «of alligators from»

When Purchasers complained to Exxon about the infestation, Exxon called the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, which responded by transporting a number of alligators from the property.

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Although I certainly improved the quality of my morning work throughout the week, I came away with one overarching feeling: It's going to take a lot more than just opening my email later to shift from slaying alligators to draining the swap.

Awareness of alligators has been heightened after one snatched 2 - year - old Lane Graves from the shore of Seven Seas Lagoon last month, dragging him into the water and killing him.

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I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to say that, with few exceptions (like these inspirational boys who saved a drunken idiot from certain, alligator - related doom), teens are known for making epic, often news - worthy, mistakes.

Plan Toys Alligator This clickety - clack pull toy made from rubberwood with non-toxic paint has stood the test of time.

Love this holiday pick for young preschoolers from Plan Toys - the Rocking Alligator ($ 80, PlanToys.com) will provide years of enjoyment to your little one.

A clearer video of the alligator has been provided to local media, showing it scurry from the water into the brush lining the shore.

In the 1990s, for instance, scientists reported that male alligators from Florida's Lake Apopka, which was fouled by a brew of hormone - mimicking chemicals, had shrunken genitalia and reduced testosterone levels.

Nifong dug into history and found news reports from the late 1800s that described battles of large masses of sharks and alligators after flooding and high tides washed the predators together.

Specifically, some previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks, which are chicks ejected from the nest when a bird lays more eggs than they can raise.

Long - legged wading birds, like herons, egrets, ibises, storks, and spoonbills may choose nesting sites above resident American alligators, likely to take advantage of protection from nest predators such as raccoons and opossums.

Breeding birds that nest above alligators for protection from mammalian predators may also provide a source of food for the alligators living in the Everglades, Florida, according to a study published March 2, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Lucas Nell from the University of Florida and colleagues.

From lush rainforests and alligator - infested swamps to freezing ice floes, Extreme Exposures vividly shows how some of the world's most challenging environments are also some of its most beautiful.

Of the roughly 1000 species listed in the United States as endangered, only 13 — including the American peregrine falcon and the American alligator — have rebounded enough to warrant removal from the list.

Until early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful from headwaters in the Midwest into swamps of the Deep South, but «river turtles were hit hard in the 1960s and 1970s,» Roman says.

Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States

While many of today's top predators are more recent products of evolution, the modern American alligator is a reptile quite literally from another time.

To create a better aerogel for potential incorporation into bendable electronics, Bai and colleagues took inspiration from the stem structure of the powdery alligator - flag plant (Thalia dealbata), a strong, lean plant capable of withstanding harsh winds.

A recent study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Florida found the number of American alligators observed in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge dropped following dry years, and then appeared to recover in later non-dry years.

In a study published in Cell Research, Chinese scientists from Zhejiang University and BGI have completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the endangered Chinese alligator (Alligator salligator (Alligator sAlligator sinensis).

Shengkai Pan, Project manager from BGI, said, «The accomplishment of the Chinese alligator genome is significant for understanding its adaptation for both aquatic and terrestrial environments, and more importantly, for the conservation of such an endangered species.»

Three of these animals came from Changxing Chinese Alligator Nature Reserve in China and the other three alligators came from U.S. zoos including WCS's Bronx Zoo, and the Saint Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park.

The genomic data provides a strong evidence from DNA level to illustrate why Chinese alligator can hold its breath under water for long periods of time, such as the duplication of the bicarbonate - binding hemoglobin gene, positively selected energy metabolism, and others.

A total of fifteen adult alligators from Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Guana River in coastal Florida were equipped with Crittercam.

Animal - borne camera reveals that alligators may attempt to capture prey most often at night, even though the calculated probability of catching prey is highest in the morning, according to a study published in PLOS ONE on January 15, 2014 by James Nifong from the University of Florida and colleagues from other institutions.

He found that gators in a lagoon near one of the launch pads had higher levels of iron and other metals, including lithium, nickel and mercury, in their livers than alligators from two other parts of Florida.

To admire the moss - hung Seussian cypress trees and deceptively lethargic alligators from a dry, safe distance, sign up for one of the flat - bottomed boat tours in the area.

«We know from the spacing of the footprint trackways and a belly - mark that it was around 600 centimetres across and 2 metres long, and was moving through the sand like an alligator,» says Tucker.

Nell says that, in order to seek protection from their furry foes, birds actually prefer to build their nests in plots of swamp with a resident alligator.

Yet all blood plasma samples drawn from 125 American alligators across 12 sites in Florida and South Carolina contained at least six of the 15 perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs) that were tracked in the alligator study.

In alligators, plasma levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) ranged from 1,360 to 452,000 parts per trillion.

American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long - lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick coatings in their blood, according to two studies from researchers at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, and its affiliated institutions, which include the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

So, Dr. Bishop and his colleagues wondered whether they could isolate CAMPs from Komodo dragon blood, as they previously had done with alligator blood to expand the library of known CAMPs for therapeutic studies.

Hello Samantha, my idea for your cat ears: you should have ears made from any kind of fur and leather: lynx, bobcat, sable, mink, chinchilla, red fox, blue fox, silver fox, coyote... and crocodile, python, alligator, lamb, cow...

An alligator skin NATO - style strap and a ring of baguette - cut diamonds on white gold form a surprising partnership in the new J12 - G10 from Chanel.

Gourmet Man Food: Chicago Open Air will feature selections from Chicago - area favorites such as: Bruges Brothers (Braised Oxtail Poutine, Currywurst, Comeback Fish and Chips) ● Chicago Doghouse (Rattlesnake and Rabbit Sausage, Smoked Alligator Sausage, The Midway Monster Hot Dog) ● Crème Of The Crop Food Truck (Grown Up Mac & Cheese, Strawberry Chicken Wrap, Tater Skins) ● Dia De Los Tamales (Cuban Tamale, Spicy Black Bean and Corn Tamale, The Chicago Beef) ● Dinky's Donuts ● International Spud Station (The Spudnik, Apollo - Mash, Nebula Chips) ● Kuma's Corner (Led Zeppelin Burger, Iron Maiden Burger) ● Pizano's (Chicago deep dish) ● The Happy Lobster (Happy Lobster Roll, The Angry Lobster Roll, Fried Lobster Mac And Cheese Bites) ● Yum Dum (Kimcheesy Fries, Braised Pork Belly Baos).

Buy a copy of Donna's hilarious dating advice book Never Trust a Man in Alligator Loafers from Amazon.com from November 3rd — December 15th.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - A super-villain has a woman chloroformed and kidnapped: he ties her to a chair, lowers spinning wheels from the ceiling toward her (they contain by turns a chainsaw blade, spiked boots, sharp blades and a flamethrower), he opens a sliding floor to show snapping alligators that we see twice, a spider lowers on a strand of webbing, the villain says it's deadly, the woman blows it into his eye and he screams.

On the other end of the spectrum are the terrifying creatures inhabiting the place, from a giant albino alligator, with teeth that appear more shark - like, and a sort of plant that seems to have erupted from a human body.

Claiming some genuine martial arts movie cred, this chapter features some voiceovers from not only Jackie Chan returning as Furious Five member Monkey, but Jean Claude van Damme as the Chinese alligator, Master Croc, who, like his alter - ego, who can drop into a vicious split at the drop of a yuan.

One of the year's more energetic exploitation offerings, the bayou - set «Creature» borrows trappings from «Texas Chainsaw Massacre» and the 1959 cult item «Alligator People» and, for at least three - quarters of its running length, scores very high on the fright - meter.

Okoye teams - up with Kate (Naomie Harris), a former employee of the genetics company who created the concoction, to try to figure out how they can prevent George and two other infected animals — a wolf and an alligator — from completely annihilating Chicago.

Between then and settling in L.A., Joe got himself into a fair share of adventures as he searched for those absent parents — working at an alligator farm, playing with firecrackers with a Native American (Adam Beach), being named a hero after he's credited with saving a science class from poisonous fumes, getting captured by a cross-dressing serial killer, finding and lugging around a meteorite.

North America's Amazon is home to some of America's most iconic species, from the bald eagle and alligator to the bald cypress and water tupelo trees.

Inside we encounter a perfect combination of dark green alligator hides, black clear carbon fiber and gold inlay while some of the switches are made from beautiful crystal... the exterior of the car will show similar shades... this car will be made from carbon fiber, but we will not have it completely clear coated... the carbon weave would make it too busy, so instead we have details in clear carbon fiber with a matte top coat while the majority of the body panels will be covered in a very dark metallic green shade to complement the interior... the customer will be able to opt for either a high gloss top coat, a satin top

You can read an excerpt of «Ava Wrestles the Alligator» from St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves here.

He has worked with some of the top children's authors in the country including Mercer Mayer, Beverly Cleary, and Stan Berenstain, His stage adaptation of Mercer Mayer's There's an Alligator Under my Bed is available from PlayScripts, Inc., in New York.

The latest novel from the author of Rocket Boys is a tall tale that's loosely based on the life of his own parents, Homer and Elsie, who travel from their home in West Virginia to Florida with an alligator in tow — the titular Albert.

Peter hates the new job: His young kids are a whirlwind of destruction wherever they go, his daughter suffers from a crippling fear of an imaginary alligator, and he and Alison seem to be growing further and further apart as she works long hours.