Sentences with phrase «of island animals»

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But when he invited drummer A.J. Pero (whose sledgehammer style was legendary on the Staten Island rock club scene) and bassist Mark «The Animal» Mendoza (an original member of influential proto - punk pioneers The Dictators) to join TS, he knew that he'd finally assembled the lethal combination of players that he needed for the Sisters to achieve global domination.

Famously, he saw that the singular animals of the Galapagos Islands were all close relatives of animals from the mainland of Ecuador, and they varied from island to island.

An undercover investigation led by a coalition of animal rights groups including Mercy for Animals, Turtle Island Restor...

The mistreatment of cows in what has been called the largest case of animal neglect in the South Island dairy sector is appalling, says sector group DairyNZ.

Next door is Bateau, which is a steakhouse as only Erickson could imagine it: one that brings in whole animals from Whidbey Island, butchers and dry - ages them in - house, and sells each steak by its weight, accessorized with your choice of bone - marrow or preserved - lemon butter.

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Those concerned about the fate of Fraser Island dingoes — including researcher Dr Luke Leung from Queensland University — now fear the population has been reduced to around 100 animals and their genetic viability over the long term is being compromised.

By age nine she had become a devotee both of the Orioles» portly first baseman, Boog Powell, and of Gerald Durrell, the British author of Matola's favorite book, My Family and Other Animals, an account of Durrell's youth on the Greek island of Corfu, where he lived amid eccentric people and exotic aAnimals, an account of Durrell's youth on the Greek island of Corfu, where he lived amid eccentric people and exotic animalsanimals.

Jungle Island — The original Parrot Island was one of the first tourist attractions in the Miami area, and now the 22 artificial fertilizer - and - pesticide - free acres is home to a variety of animals and birds — most notably Hercules, a 900 - pound liger, that is a cross between a lion and a tiger.

She lives on Long Island with her husband, works full - time as a public relations professional for a non-profit organization and volunteers with homeless animals with all of her spare time.

In one of the most frightening animal encounters in recent Staten Island memory, a badly - injured deer barged into a clothing shop on busy New Dorp Lane, terrifying customers and trampling merchandise once it got trapped inside.

With this new authority in hand, municipalities from Buffalo to New York City, the North Country to Long Island will be able to pass tough new laws to crack down on puppy mills and bad breeders who place profit above the health and safety of animals.

At 10 a.m., NYC GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis holds a press conference to discuss the «delayed and over budget projects that plague the New York City Department of Design and Construction,» Animal Care Center of New York, 3139 Veterans Rd., Staten Island.

At 11:30 a.m., animal rights advocates will be on hand as Village of Brookville Mayor Daniel H. Serota and Gary Rogers of the Nassau County SPCA pardon a turkey, Historic Milleridge Inn, 585 N. Broadway, Jericho, Long Island.

The deer population in Staten Island has exploded recently, with an aerial survey done by the Parks Department in 2014 finding 763 of the animals in the borough — up from just 24 in 2008.

The deer population on Staten Island has recently boomed, with an aerial survey done by the Parks Department last year finding nearly 800 of the animals in the borough.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the Staten Island Zoo was responsible for the incident.

STATEN ISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IslandIsland.

Brian Morris, a spokesman for the Staten Island Zoo, said organizers are reviewing the current ceremony to ensure safety of all participants, including the animals.

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Three of the four generators were used on Long Island — to supply power to the Elmont Fire Department, the Town of Hempstead's Animal Shelter and a Long Beach drawbridge.

The 840 - acre island off Orient Point now houses a Department of Homeland Security animal - disease research center.

Because of Madagascar's diverse variety of rocks with different chemistries and ages — a result of the island's ancient history of colliding with other landmasses and then drifting apart — tracking animal mobility and migration patterns can be performed with confidence, explains Crowley.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

Crowley believes that gaining a better understanding of how animal mobility has been affected by the loss of species and habitat will be beneficial to current and future conservation efforts on the island.

Most famously, when he crossed the narrow but deep channel between the islands of Bali and Lombok, he discovered strikingly different sorts of birds and other animals.

Working with scientists from the Moorea Biocode Project, which aims to create a complete inventory of the island's species, Liittschwager photographed more than 600 different plants and animals here.

Remember the freakish animal - human hybrids in The Island of Dr. Moreau?

It's a large island, to be sure, about 1.6 million acres, but the habitat is so harsh that a successful recovery would be a herd of 300 animals.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

In the event your de-extincted animal doesn't work out and, say, wreaks havoc in your local ecosystem, wiping out long - established flora and fauna, having the extended warranty covers all costs associated with the capture and transport of the animal to the Island of Misfit Toys, formerly known as Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica.

Investigators sent tissue and blood samples to Michael McIntosh at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Greenport, N.Y. McIntosh says he was surprised to find that the tissue samples also contained the Reston strain, which had not been previously identified in swine.

In this seminal work, which focused on islands in the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now natives.

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But to eradicate them would also be to kill an important part of the island's cultural lexicon, built around the practice of hunting and roasting the animals.

More than 80 percent of the island's plants and animals are found nowhere else.

The reservoir could also break up land bridges into small islands, isolating clusters of animals and plants.

They researchers found surfacing of both tiger sharks and green turtles was highest where they overlapped in core home range, closest to the island, and surfacing also increased for both animals with increasing proximity to the shoreline.

Hedges and a colleague found the animals, named Sphaerodactylus ariasae, in a sink hole and cave in a forest on the island of Beata, part of the Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

Together with nineteen other sites, these are part of the Okinawa Environmental Observation Network Churamori Project which monitors the island's plants and animals — many of which are either endemic or threatened.

He's like «Mr. Subfossil Bird Bones» (and a lot of other subfossil animals, but especially birds — and especially island birds).

«Why these animals stayed together so long in Hood Canal is a mystery,» said John K. B. Ford, one of the world's leading researchers on orca behavior and a marine mammal scientist at the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.

To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments.

This is one of the findings of a recent Health Check of native animals on Melville Island, 80 km north of Darwin, which undertook surveys at almost 100 sites and compared them to survey results from 15 years ago.

Mercury pollution in marine animals might be behind a population crash of foxes on a Russian island

For a week now we have hiked more than 20 miles a day, frequently off trail, in search of the island's most elusive animal: a carnivore little known to science and unknown to most of the world.

And with more than 500 species of plants and animals now threatened with extinction, New Zealand's ecologists are keen to make the most of the isolation provided by the country's 600 offshore islands.

In the traditional scenario for speciation, a population of animals becomes isolated from others of its kind, say by being blown onto a far - off desert island like one of the Galápagos.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.