Sentences with phrase «of finding food»

Beyond the challenge of finding food, he says the new programmes have tested his survival skills to the limits.

Related to this is an expectation, again woven into our genes, that the process of finding food requires that we are active.

It gets the importance of finding food and a few bullets more and sticking together so those things out there don't get you.

So Sonne's group concludes that human pollution, combined with the difficulty of finding food in warming climates, may spell disaster for Eastern Greenland polar bears.

«Penguins do a remarkable job of finding food for their chicks in the ocean's dynamic environment, so we thought that the type and size distribution of food sources would impact chick weight.»

For instance, fruit is more patchily distributed in both space and time, which makes the task of finding food more complex, says Higham.

Peter Biro and his collaborators here present a novel energetic hypothesis for how minimum and maximum metabolic rates can together constrain the expression of behavioral variation at these different levels, limiting what animals can do in terms of finding food and mates, competing, and avoiding predators.

But biologists have been unsure whether this is because non-migratory birds need larger brains to cope with the challenges of finding food through the changing seasons, or because migrators need to pare down their weight for travel.

Carter says that the best place for low - ranking baboons is often the peripheries, in the hopes of finding food and grabbing a few kernels before information spreads, and they are supplanted by the local dominant.

Yet Mattson believes that such evolutionary pressures selected for genes that strengthened brain areas involved in learning and memory, which increased the odds of finding food and surviving.

Then there is the issue of finding food, virgins being preferable.

Fish have very highly evolved olfactory senses because the water in many habitats is not clear enough to use sight as the primary means of finding food.

The lawsuit was filed based on provisions of the Albuquerque Humane and Ethical Animal Rules and Treatment (HEART) ordinance which provides that «Any person who relinquishes possession or control of an animal in a location where any reasonable person would know the animal has little chance of finding food, potable water, and shelter is guilty of cruelty.»

Along with the problem of finding food, J.J. faces possible danger from killer whales and a variety of aquatic bacteria.

«Mosquitoes have this very challenging task of finding food that's hidden under the skin of mobile and defensive hosts,» said Clément Vinauger of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

«Sharks are like swimming noses, so chemical cues are really important for them in terms of finding food.»

The mixed - marriage couples together faced the challenges of finding food and shelter, establishing a territory, and reproducing.

When his friend Gobo thinks of winter and the difficulty of finding food, he says: «It must be dreadful.»

However, when one of them finds some food in the vicinity of the colony, it takes a tiny piece of it to the nest, leaving a trail of a scent - emanating substance called pheromones.

«We have a lot of the same food sensitivities, and so it was a matter not just of finding food for her but of finding food for myself.»