Sentences with phrase «on guano»

A lot of the wildlife down here feasts on guano and unfortunate newborn bats that lose their grip.

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From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.
Mr Jashar, not forgetting the history that Guano Australia was built on, has now teamed up with local institution WB HUNTER GROUP — to service the entire Goulburn Valley region and Southern NSW / Riverina.
The Guano CEO / Director, John Kismet Jashar, was raised on his family's orchards and has spent most of his life in agriculture and horticulture, as well as food and beverage production.
While this was happening, a team of Australians who had been working in the struggling guano industry on various islands off North Queensland's coast were being rallied to take over the plant and equipment to get the new phosphate mining industry up and running.
Rather than feeding on bat guano like many other cave cockroaches, the new species instead graze on bacteria and fungi.
Using new chemical analyses of penguin guano extracted in sediment cores from a lake on the island, the researchers unraveled the history of the penguin colony.
The so - called bat guano is rich in nutrients, its specific composition depends on the bats» feeding habits.
Some fish swim up rivers and die; birds sprinkle the land with their guano; and those deep - sea nutrients slowly work their way into ecosystems on land with the help of bald eagles and bears and the like.
Scientists had known of an Adélie penguin colony (Pygoscelis adeliae) in these Danger Islands, but satellite images revealed more guano on the rocky islands...
An adult Antricola marginatus tick probably feeds on bat guano, but youngsters riding on mom's back (shown) readily leap off to drink blood if warm mammals are nearby.
They feast on any chicks that get kicked out of the nest, as well as on the rest of the extra-productive swamp life, fertilized by all that guano.
Birds play an important role in a wide variety of ecosystems as both predator and prey, in controlling insect populations, pollinating and seed dispersal for many plants, and in releasing nutrients on to land and sea in the form of guano.
In a new paper published this week in the research journal Scientific Reports, USF geochemistry Professor Bogdan Onac and PhD student Daniel Cleary report that isotopes found in bat guano over the last 1,200 years can provide scientists with information on how the climate was and is changing.
While this was happening, a team of Australians who had been working in the struggling guano industry on various islands off North Queensland's coast were being rallied to take over the plant and equipment to get the new phosphate mining industry up and running.
And scientists think they know how she got the virus: She put her hand on rocks covered in bat guano.
I've been working on THE SECOND BAT GUANO WAR, a hard - boiled spy thriller.
WARNING: Western Gulls Nesting on Anacapa Island From April Through Mid-August During this time, visitors will encounter seabird rookery conditions: guano, strong odor, constant noise, bird carcasses, and birds protecting their territory.
These birds nest on the ground in shallow depressions that they meticulously clean and keep ringed with white guano, or excrement.
Plus, sea levels will go down dramatically, and coastal plains that have not seen the light of day for 1,000's of years, once the salt is washed out of them, well, they will be remarkably fertile after 1,000's of years of fish guano and fish bones and recycled seaweed, dropping on them, won't they?
The question is: do the documents in dispute, ie, MSP and Pharmanet, come withing the terms of either Rule 7 - 1 (1)(a), ie, documents that can be used by a party of record to prove or disprove a material fact or that will be referred to at trial or, if not, do they come under category 7 - 1 (11), generally, in the vernacular, referred to as the Guano documents... There is no question that there is a higher duty on a party requesting documents under the second category... that in addition to requesting, they must explain and satisfy either the party being demanded or the court, if an order is sought, with an explanation «with reasonable specificity that indicates the reason why such additional documents or classes of documents should be disclosed», and again, there is no doubt that the new Rules have limited the obligation for production in the first instance to the first category that I have described and has reduced or lessened the obligation for production in general...
A Court can, on application, order further disclosure more in line with the «Peruvian Guano» test that was in force under the former rules.
Did your research on bat guano fertilization result in better yields on a university agriculture project?
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