Sentences with phrase «of carrion»

According to the IUCN, major reasons for the animals» decline include persecution (especially poisoning) by humans, decreasing sources of carrion due to declines in the populations of other large carnivores (wolves, cheetahs, leopards, lions and tigers) and their prey, and changes in livestock practices.

And she found that religious people tended to walk around her as they would a piece of carrion.

That's the fifth leg of this carrion table.

Yet, that deja vu would appear completely lost, on the opportunistic brood that clambered to his Minna hill top mansion, like vultures swooping on a thick ooze of carrion — political carrion of lazy and illicit advantage.

Europe's oil companies are hovering like a flock of carrion birds over the carcass of Gaddafi's regime.

If so, what type of carrion has the Electricity Company been employing of late to coat its cables and pylons with as to attract the creatures?

With all due respect and absolutely no intention of being nasty, it conjures, in arresting technicolor, the image of the vulture rousing to the thick smell of carrion!

How is it that vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least lead to severe food - poisoning, and more likely kill most other animals?

«The fact that American badgers could bury carcasses of this size indicates that they could potentially bury the majority of the carrion that they would come into contact with in the wild.

Vultures are highly efficient consumers of carrion, sometimes locating and consuming carcasses within an hour, before other forms of decay can set in.

A comparison of the carrion and hooded - crow genomes showed that the sequences are almost identical.

Scientists are finding that condors face many of the same dangers that stalked the birds 25 years ago, with the main one being lead bullet fragments that lodge in the flesh of carrion.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

Early in the morning, they take off from their nests in the canyon wall and use the rising currents of warm air to glide out in search of carrion.

Raptors Namibia places most of the blame on poisons, which the bateleur picks up from carcasses on farms placed next to protected nesting areas, but a decrease in the availability of carrion prey hasn't helped.

The press, particularly The Daily Mail and associates, has been publicising the break - up of fortysomething columnist Liz Jones from her errant younger husband Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal in a manner more than slightly reminiscent of carrion crows picking over the corpse of a dead warthog.

The aliens took with them, it seems, a source of carrion that might have made immediate reintroduction of bald eagles possible.