Sentences with phrase «of big carnivores»

Populations of big carnivores such as brown bears, Eurasian lynx, grey wolves and wolverines are stable or increasing in a substantial part of Europe.

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I'm the biggest carnivore there is, but the reality is, by being so, I open myself up to all sorts of health risks.

And this is coming from a big carnivore who eats a lot of burgers.

Here are a handful of salads that would make even the biggest carnivores reconsider, at least for one meal.

Adam is a confirmed carnivore, but being essentially omnivorous is a big fan of vegetarian cooking as well.

Although CDV is well known in domestic dogs, it also infects a wide range of carnivore species, including big cats.

The result: On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.

The researchers identified several criteria for choosing umbrella species — such as big carnivores, most long - lived, habitat specialists, and ones on the verge of extinction — and analyzed how many imperiled species might be saved by protecting the habitat of that type of umbrella species, compared to species saved by randomly picking a set of species to serve as the umbrella.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

Part of the problem is that the kinds of native animals that are most likely to be affected by toads are big predators, like quolls (marsupial carnivores), large snakes, and goannas.

Large carnivores and herbivores (bigger than 10 kilograms or 22 pounds) comprise a small percentage of all mammals listed but tend to be impacted more severely by overhunting, the researchers reported.

Cats, on the other hand, are obligate carnivores, who have adapted to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating whole prey, just like their wild big cat cousins.

Go on safari with a researcher from the Carnivore Conservation Programme, part of National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative.

But the big question will be whether this — and the whole host of other plant - based alternatives to meat and fish that Impossible Foods plans — could one day convince carnivores to adopt a more planet - friendly diet.