Sentences with phrase «of animal groups»

Students will learn the names of animal groups by matching animal names and pictures with the group names.

Their conclusion: on the whole, the brains of both animal groups have indeed very different structures.

Researchers have also stated that play is a primary mechanism of learning and socialization common to all human cultures, as well as a number of animal groups.

Students should use the key to describe the features of each animal group.

Interested parties who to make a difference in the lives of the animals the group's care can do so by donating financially.

The upping of atmospheric oxygen was followed by a frenzy of evolutionary innovation, during which most of the animal groups known today popped up.

Until now, it has been assumed that this was the original form of the metabolism — i.e. that the shared ancestor of both animal groups was cold - blooded.

The paper says that the termite gut microbiome is among the most complex of any animal group and has evolved enabling termites «to diversity their food source from the ancestral state of wood... and to achieve ecological dominance across tropical and subtropical regions of the globe.»

«These prints are pushing back the oldest representatives of animal groups.»

This research shows for the first time that, even among animals where group membership changes frequently over time and individuals are not very strongly related to each other, such as schooling fish or flocking birds, stable differences can emerge in the collective performance of animal groups.

For centuries, scientists and non-scientists alike have been fascinated by the beautiful and often complex collective behaviour of animal groups, such as the highly synchronised movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish.

Rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field 550 million years ago destroyed a large part of the ozone layer and let in a flood of ultraviolet radiation, devastating the unusual creatures of the so - called Ediacaran Period and triggering an evolutionary flight from light that led to the Cambrian explosion of animal groups.

Mathematical models allow us to understand how patterns and processes in the real world are generated and how complex behaviour, such as the collective movement of animal groups, can be produced from simple individual level rules.

«The abrupt appearance of dozens of animal groups during this time is arguably the most important evolutionary event after the origin of life,» says lead author Associate Professor Michael Lee of the University of Adelaide's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the South Australian Museum.

They can make a book of animal groups.

Then give students instructions for the activity: They must locate the other members of their animal group by imitating that animal's sound only.

This collection of humorous illustrations and clever wordplay introduces children to the wide variety of animal groups, such as a prickle of porcupines and a tower of giraffes.

The proposal was made by a coalition of animal groups including Concerned Citizens for Animal Welfare, representatives of local humane societies, the Volusia County Council and Volusia County Animal Services.

There are tours through both the small and large animal hospitals, many different exhibits for rescues and organizations, tons of demonstrations by all kinds of animal groups (agility dogs, trick horses, etc.) and animal exhibits galore!

There are thousands of animal groups doing remarkable, lifesaving work every day, in almost every community in the nation.

Most of the animal groups Safina examines in the book — primarily wolves, elephants, and whales — have close - knit social and family units.

Only a combined methodological approach will eventually allow a sound reconstruction of ground patterns and last common ancestors of animal groups.

However, the termite gut microbiome is among the most complex of any animal group.

«Tink»n About Animals» (1:51) is an animated short in which Fawn teaches her fellow fairies in song the names of animal groups.

«Still, the fact that we can detect changes over 20 years in some of these animal groups at such a coarse taxonomic resolution is remarkable.»

Still, the fact that we can detect changes over 20 years in some of these animal groups at such a coarse taxonomic resolution is remarkable,» said Amanda Koltz, of Washington University in St Louis, who led the study.