Sentences with phrase «open habitats»

And species that travel in small groups or that inhabit open habitats along with predators tend to sleep less.

Burrowing owls live in open habitats with sparse vegetation such as prairie, pastures, desert, and shrubsteppe... or, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology (our go - to owl source for these facts), airports.

Volunteers, who have already been removing invasive species, will help seed the newly opened habitat with native grasses and wildflowers.

Predators can take advantage of more open habitats for hunting, which puts more pressure on wildlife.

In the Bay Area, it is also found in more open habitats including under scrub habitat on hillsides, in meadows and grasslands.

Sheep grazing led to the development of many meadows on the sanctuary, and our current team of munchers help us maintain open habitat for wildlife.

Species traveling in small groups or inhabiting open habitats along with predators tend to sleep less.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg

While Angiopteris and Christensenia prefer lowland rain forest and grow in partly open habitats, Marattia has a preference for high elevation cloud forest and semi-deciduous forest in the subtropics.

This powerful flier and accomplished migrant occurs widely in open habitats usually near coasts.

Cane toads, researchers found, share the same open habitats and are active during the same times of day as the carnivorous ants.

This showed that horns were most likely in conspicuous species — those living in open habitats and large enough to be clearly visible to predators — suggesting that they evolved as defensive weapons (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1256).

It will tend to be darker and more complex if you're in a closed habitat in a large social group, and it will tend to be lighter and more complex if you're in an open habitat with a large social group.

However, this may be because only two or three mollusk species are able to brave the harsh conditions there, and all of them happened to find their way back to the open habitat.

Only after the Neolithic farmers arrived did the plants of the open habitat spread from small refugia around the turloughs and on cliffs, to grace the whole countryside with their presence.

They also became bigger to more effectively digest this low quality food, and as a strategy against predators in these new, open habitats,» explains Juan L. Cantalapiedra, researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.

Another open habitat is the North American plain, with white - tailed deer, American bison, Texas longhorns and wild turkeys roaming near a pond stocked with fish, turtles, & waterfowl.

The trend for guinea pig housing is large, open habitats that are more like corrals than cages.

The Safari Park shows animals in open habitats.

Brown bears rely primarily on their keen sense of smell — a sense several times stronger than that of bloodhounds — but when the wind blows over the open habitat near Moraine Creek, one can experience sustained winds of thirty miles per hour, and gusts all the greater.

The Western is more of a forest bird, the Mountain more partial to open habitats: high sagebrush desert, mountain meadows, and even alpine tundra.