Sentences with phrase «of predator animals»

The art house elements of Demon are obvious, from the glossy, perfectly framed neon visuals to the haute couture — borrowed from fashion houses like Schiaparelli and Yves Saint Laurent — to thematic touches like the presence of predator animals strewn throughout the film.

Not exact matches

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

The only available food source becomes larger herd animals, a daunting challenge even for the largest of predators.

Animal protectionists cast a great deal of ire on the wildlife damage control programs, especially the work performed by USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services (hereafter WS) which has historically administered predator control programs in the U.S.. For example, activists reject the idea that coyote control programs are needed to protect flocks from costly predation.

In light of Larson's findings, it would seem clear that animal protectionists have not proven that trapping is an unnecessary component for effective predator management.

We don't really have predator animals in the suburbs, aside from feral cats, and I think there are less of those because we have some coyotes, occasionally.

Just like sexual predators, people that lack empathy for the pain of other people and animals are sick.

Says Glen Sutton, who spent over four decades working as a predator trapper for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, embracing some of its methods but disdaining others, «I'm afraid a lot of these animals are going to be extinct soon.

Animals with less dependent newborns, infants that can literally walk away from the birth site, also ingest their placentas, regardless of the reality that they could be miles away from the location before becoming vulnerable to a predator.

SARASOTA — Scientist Carl Luer has spent most of his life studying an animal humans inherently fear: sharks.The predators of the sea have been the villains of thriller tales since the 1974 novel, Jaws They've invaded the streets of Los Angeles in the...

One of the unmentioned pros of animals consuming the placenta is to protect their young from predators in the wild.

Animals eat their after birth to diminish the smell of birth from predators.

The annual Bob Evans Memorial Predator Calling Hunt, which last year raised the hackles of an animal rights group and others, was cancelled earlier this month due to lack of entries by the event's registration deadline.

«How fear alone can cause animal extinction: Even the smell of a predator can have disastrous effects in populations of small size.»

As for camouflage, the bright colors of many small animals have not evolved for that function but for the purposes of attracting a mate or signaling kin or a predator.

Sharks are superb predators, but even they are no match for the animal kingdom's most disgusting yet effective defense: the gag - inducing slime of the hagfish.

To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

The bony tails sported by some dinosaurs made formidable weapons capable of bringing down massive predators — yet today virtually no animals have tails that double as weapons.

But when faced with a large land - based predator, eels will launch themselves from the water and electrify the animal with a touch of the head.

Being part of a group can be extremely beneficial to animals as a way to obtain food, defend themselves from predators or cope with environmental changes.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

Wildlife biologists were concerned about delisting the animals there as state officials had sought a «predator zone» — where wolves could be shot on sight — covering almost 90 percent of the state.

The gradual emergence of predators, driven by a small rise in oxygen, would have meant trouble for Ediacaran animals that lacked obvious defences.

Studies of those ancient Namibian reefs suggest that animals were indeed starting to fall prey to predators by the end of the Ediacaran.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

Marian Stamp Dawkins, an animal behavior expert at the University of Oxford, has championed the idea that aspects of sensory processing can influence the evolution of communication signals; for example, a nocturnal species whose predators are color - blind would not evolve colored warning splotches.

The ugly will include the need, for example, to brace for the ever more jarring effects of extreme weather patterns, the extinction of a huge range of animal and plant species, and the invasion into new latitudes of predators and pests.

With an estimated 1 million animals killed every day on America's road network, the effect of this constant removal of predators and prey is felt over much wider areas.

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

The most likely explanation is that kiwis do not need vision because of where and how they live: they are active at night, and their habitat offers plenty of food and no predators, apart from introduced animals such as stoats.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

While you're chewing on that irony, consider that for hundreds of millions of years some animals have avoided the teeth of predators by getting down and dirty.

Dr Martin Stevens from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus said: «As far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgrounds.

The findings suggest that mites recall the experiences they have early in life — the first example of a predator experience during one life stage of an animal having a specific effect on its behavior during another life stage.

Venom is a complex mixture of proteins and other toxic chemicals produced by animals such as snakes and spiders, either to incapacitate their prey or to defend against predators.

The animals avoid predators by hardly ever coming down from the trees, so even a narrow logging road through a forest can begin the breakup by preventing them from moving from one patch of forest to another.

There are examples, too, of animals getting fatter when they have no predators to fear.

Stabbing a predator with an offensive weapon is a tried and tested defence strategy: thousands of animals and plants are covered with horns, thorns or spines.

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.

«They nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies and often gang up on a predator,» says Pat Monaghan, a professor of animal ecology at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

Ants are also, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson, the premier turners of soil in the world, the chief predators of other insects, and the principal scavengers of small dead animals — all activities that ultimately benefit humans.

It's easy to picture the animal using the frill to block a predator's lunge for its neck, or goring its attacker with one of its horns.

To study the effects of intense hunting of sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean, Whitehead and his wife, marine biologist Linda Weilgart, collected data on the whales» vocalizations and tail scars, which may indicate how well an animal fends off predators.

Most studies of animal warning colors focus on how well they deter potential predators, but far fewer have examined whether the same signals help their bearers avoid detection by parasites, prey, or competitors, the researchers say.

«The animals emit a remarkably effective dim glow from their bellies that exactly matches the intensity and color of sunlight penetrating from the surface,» Widder explains, «so they aren't easily seen by predators swimming below them.»

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

In general, hyenas are large, strong, flesh - eating animals that hunt a wide range of prey but mostly feed on carrion (the kills of other predators).

The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human By John Bradshaw From the dawn of domestication to pampered modern pets, anthrozoologist Bradshaw, author of the best - selling Cat Sense and Dog Sense, traces the evolution of predators into companions in this riveting read.

In Carnivore Minds: Who these fearsome animals really are (Yale University Press), trans - species psychologist Gay Bradshaw deliberately ignores this advice to get under the skin of seven vertebrate predators.