Sentences with phrase «of wild predators»

Putting numbers on the athletic powers of wild predators and prey «enables you to understand the ecosystem» Wilson says.

Not exact matches

In this case, in lieu of humans, the predators — hyenas, lions and wild dogs — will be the agent (blindly, unintentionally) doing the selective breeding.

It's rough out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the earth is jammed with devout human predators unlike all others: we not only kill for food, we kill each other along with the natural forces nourishing life on this planet.

The provision of structures providing food and shelter, and the lack of pesticide use, attract new or re-colonizing species to the organic area (both permanent and migratory), including wild flora and fauna (e.g. birds) and organisms beneficial to the organic system such as pollinators and pest predators.

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

Although considered one of the most successful predators on Earth due to the high kill - rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.

But in the wild, predators kill 50 to 70 percent of young giraffes in the first year of life.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

Three concurrent studies, undertaken by ZSL, the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, and the African Wildlife Conservation Fund, monitored a total of 73 wild dog packs at sites in Kenya, Botswana and Zimbabwe, over a combined 42 years of study.

The artificial absence of wolves and other large predators gave cats, dogs, raccoons, and foxes license to grow fat on wild birds from the beaches to the mountainsides.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

Martin Stevens from Exeter University who, along with Claire Spottiswoode from the University of Cambridge, co-led the project said: «Despite such a long history of research, ours is the first study to directly show how the degree of camouflage an individual has, to the eyes of its predators, directly affects the likelihood of it being seen and eaten in the wild.»

The robins live at the Zealandia wildlife sanctuary, a 225 - hectare nature paradise in Wellington where more than 700 of the birds live wild and protected from predators in the middle of the city.

Rolf O. Peterson (1944 ---RRB- Peterson helms the world's longest - running study of the predator - prey relationship in the wild, between wolves and moose on Isle Royale in the middle of Lake Superior.

Then because it helped them escape predators, they evolved a new way of moving their feathered forearms and thus equipped, they could flap away into the wild blue yonder.

Next, they tested the effect of the flashing on predators, which in the wild might be octopi, predatory snails, or mantis shrimp.

Human tourism — no matter how well - intentioned — might desensitize wild animals to poachers and predators, affecting their odds of survival.

But over successive generations, the prey clumped more and more in response to the predator, until the predator's success rate became quite low — similar to what is seen in the wild (compare the predator's ability to pick off two prey — white dots disappearing — in the early seconds of the video versus at the end), the team reports online this week in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

For each island, the researchers recorded the presence or absence of various native mammals, and of rats, cats, foxes, and wild dogs known as dingoes, which some scientists believe help control invasive predators.

That could be bad news for fish being tracked in the wild — they may become easy meat for predators (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2014.1595).

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation.

Most importantly, this paper tells a complete story about how different types of predators shape the selection pressures on foraging in this species, and provides insights that will be directly relevant to many other studies of natural selection in the wild.

The need to escape or repel predators also likely inspired the first scales, spines and body armor, as well as some of the wilder body plans seen in Cambrian fossils.

The only repetitive sound they might hear over hours in the wild is rain, and «the big predator of these worms is a fungus with a lasso that clamps on them.

Predator - induced defenses in offspring of laboratory and wild - caught snails: prey history impacts prey response.

This is an ideal response if faced with a predator in the wild; it is not ideal when endured for a long time because of your lifestyle.

If you ever watch an animal in the wild break free from a predator, you may notice that it goes through a very brief period of shaking or twitching, This is an instinctive response called a «discharge» to help release the built up energy from a previously high adrenal state.

The whole process of gathering supplies, and making a go of surviving in the wild while fending off starvation, madness, and predators is quite entertaining.

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INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Earth (G) Disney nature flick, narrated by James Earl Jones and Patrick Stewart, chronicles the efforts of several families of wild animals, including polar bears, ducks and cranes, not only to elude predators but to adjust to atmospheric warming trends.

Lacking the camp quality of Zandalee and the sleazy titillation of Wild Orchid, Robert Angelo's neo-Zalman King / soft - porn / direct - to - video abomination Sexual Predator (a.k.a..

Our focal group of orphaned youths narrowly escapes death and survives by scaring wild predators off slain antelope and drinking their own urine.

Hundreds of thousands of the skilled predators roamed the continent, feeding primarily on such large wild animals as deer, moose, and elk.

This fantastical assemblage, like something from a Mad Max movie, would scoop up everything in its way: predators such as lions and cheetahs, lumbering endangered herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, herds of impala and wildebeest, family groups of warthogs and wild dogs.

In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life - parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators - to allow ourselves to live free of wild danger.

Unlike their wild counterparts, parrot companions live in warm homes, get plenty of food and don't need to worry about predators.

Birds are inclined to hide any signs of illnesses, since in the wild, predators target weakened birds.

Females seem to eat their own stools, I believe that's because in the wild, a female dog and her pups were at risk because of predators, so the mother would clean up after herself and pups to remove any scent that would attract a predator.

If you let a house rabbit roam in your garden or yard there is always the danger of attack from wild and domestic predators.

In the wild, the scent of milky feces attracts predators so it is vital that mom keeps the pups as odor - free as possible but this cleanliness behavior carries over into domesticated canines as well.

This behavior is a natural instinct that is used for protection in the wild, where any animal showing signs of weakness is likely to be shunned by its own kind or attacked by predators.

Animals in the wild, as well as domestic dogs, protect territory from competitors of their own species, and from predators of other species.

In the wild, showing signs of disease is a sign of weakness and makes them a target to predators.

In the wild, predators hungry for a bit of puppy could locate the den simply by the scent of feces.

Ideally, you will be able to let your pup accompany you off - leash but make sure you are able to recall him in the event of danger (including bears and other wild predators).

CAT DISH PLACEMENT In the wild, cats like to have a clear view of their surroundings in order to detect the approach of rivals or predators.

Leaving something like poop out in the wild could actually attract a predator, in this way the dog can kind of hide it to avoid someone bigger coming up and eating them.

On the downside, wild rabbits have to deal with the potential for predators and poisoning by stingy humans who do not want to share the contents of their gardens.

Cats in the wild will hide symptoms of illness or injury because they don't want to attract the attention of predators.

One of the main reasons cats groom themselves after eating is that in the wild, cats want to protect themselves from predators, and want to eliminate any traces of blood that might have collected on their furs as they were hunting or eating.