Sentences with phrase «of immature animals»

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It's important to remember that the human being is one of the most immature beings at birth; which means that their brain is severely underdeveloped compared to other animals.

Immature animals get eaten far more often than adults, and this makes larvicide (or infanticide) the most common form of cannibalism in the animal kingdom.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given popImmature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given popimmature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

They then purified messenger RNA — a molecule that plays a key role in the production of proteins — from the cells in the animals» upper intestines, injected the mRNA into immature eggs cells, and looked for changes in iron uptake.

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

But his lab's animal studies have revealed that asymmetry in an immature egg is important to the development of an embryo.

These immature forms of the tiny animals drift with water currents until they settle to form reefs.

«Even in young animals, where many beta cells are still immature, you may have other beta cells that are at the end of their lifespan.

Baby's earliest solid foods should be animal foods as his digestive system, although immature, is better equipped to supply enzymes for digestion of fats and proteins rather than carbohydrates.

It's also important to treat your home and yard with flea and tick products to prevent immature stages of these parasites (such as flea eggs that fall off untreated pets or other animals) to create an infestation.

Humane Canada is opposed to drugs being administered with a view to altering the performance of a horse and to any races where unreasonable or excessive demands upon the horse cause distress or suffering (e.g., immature or unfit animals).

This is usually due to the growing / immature immune systems of the young animals.

In the past, veterinarians and pet owners had to try to control fleas by treating the environment of the animal for the immature flea stages.

Not only are these products naturally derived, while they may be quite toxic to immature worms, they are virtually harmless to mammalian vertebrates, the class of animals that includes dogs and people.

An employee in this position will work under the veterinarian in routine health care and evaluations of shelter animals, assist in surgery, and perform nursing care of sick, injured or immature animals.

Quinolone - class drugs have been associated with cartilage erosions in weight - bearing joints and other forms of arthropathy in immature animals of various species.

The northbound migration begins with immature animals (some of which may not have gone all the way to Mexico) adult males, and females without calves.