Sentences with phrase «other animal populations»

It's also considering other animal populations that can be helped by similar programs.

Learn how to set up a ward where affected kitties can be isolated from other animal populations and treated until they are cleared of the disease and ready for adoption in this 25 minute presentation from the 2015 American Pets Alive!

Learn how to set up a ward where affected kitties can be isolated from other animal populations and treated until they are cleared of the disease and ready for adoption.

And what's worse, is that they tend to stay in shelters longer than any other animal population because of the aforementioned restrictions that make so it hard, if not impossible, to have an American Pit Bull Terrier as a companion animal.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

This stimulated micro-invertebrate populations, which support wetland and riverine food webs, increasing food resources for fish, frogs, turtles, waterbirds and other animals.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

There is ample evidence that the combination of stockmen and federal poisoners has already succeeded in eliminating certain animal populations and endangering others.

Church and others, though, argue that de-extincting animals sparks the imagination in ways that merely maintaining endangered populations doesn't.

The search should include family and other contacts of infected people, plus healthcare workers and the general population, as well as animals, he says.

Microbiome refers to the populations of bacteria and other microbes that live within all animals.

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.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

If you want to study a particular animal, they say, there's probably some other population elsewhere.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

She kept feeding the new data into mathematical models that factored in the animals» age, migration patterns and disease prevalence in the population, among other things.

The results may extend to other animals as well, the researchers speculate, and may even explain why some populations of sperm whales have relatively few young.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

The finding, experts say, has implications for conservation management, which often solely focuses on the number of animals in a population, and may extend to chimpanzees, dolphins, whales, and other species.

Mice, rabbit and foxes traverse farmland while other animals graze, all with the potential to become vectors for the resistant bacteria organisms and spread it throughout different animal populations,» said Pat Millner, a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist based in Maryland.

The only examples of such sustainable hunting, however, are either among people who have almost no contact with other human beings, such as the indigenous Aché people in the forests of eastern Paraguay, or those who have already killed off local populations of slow - breeding animals as is evidenced in the bushmeat market in Takoradi, Ghana.

Scientists find themselves choosing between animals as explosions of some populations endanger others

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.

«When squid populations change, it often impacts other animals such as albatross egg production or fisheries production.»

Twenty - mile castaway fishnets snare sea turtles, dolphins, and other animals, endangering their populations; birds mistake trash for food, eat it, and die; jellyfish get sick; gnarly junk washes back to shore — some of it hazardous waste.

«This is the first natural example where on a daily basis, an animal uses the memory and the perception of rhythm to recognize other members of the population,» says first author Nicolas Mathevon, of the Université de Lyon / Saint - Etienne in France.

To make their new study, the team — including scientists from University of Oxford, University of Vermont, Harvard University, Aarhus University in Denmark, Princeton University, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and Purdue University — used these findings and other existing data about historic and current animal populations.

The researchers also found species loss could be offset by maintaining areas of forest that contain distinctly different populations of plants and animals that, while different, complement and help sustain each other.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

West Nile virus has wreaked havoc mostly on bird populations, but humans and a variety of other animals can become infected as well when bitten by a mosquito that previously dined on an infected bird.

In previous studies, Knight and other researchers have found distinct populations of neurons within a region of the brain called the hypothalamus that can trigger thirst and signal when an animal should start and stop drinking.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

«Parasitic eye infection poses significant threat to UK dogs, warn experts: And may have implications for other UK animal, human populations.»

The Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, and other groups say they are particularly alarmed by the plan's goal of establishing a population of just 300 to 325 animals, and the provision that blocks the wolves from living north of U.S. Interstate 40.

Not only do we kill other animals at much higher rates than other predators, but our ability to bring down larger adults can make it very difficult for some prey populations to recover.

Though researchers knew that switchgrass and other perennial grasses have certain advantages over maize, the study is the first to look at multiple ecosystem services and animal populations at the same time, says Silvia Secchi, an agribusiness economist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

While we all hope and work towards keeping the snow leopard alive in the wild zoo populations also have their role in helping to educate the public about conservation of this and other endangered animals.

Without a long record, Woith said, researchers can not be sure that their observations relate to an earthquake and not some other kind of environmental change or long - term fluctuation in the health of an animal population or its predators.

Among the many other marine animals dwelling in American coasts whose populations have fallen and struggling to recover or persist are orca, beluga whales, manatees, otters, seals, and sea lions.

BinAB is toxic to mosquito larvae but harmless to humans and other animals and is already used to control mosquito populations in the United States, Thailand, Germany and China.

We intend to develop a quantitative, detailed and cohesive definition of neuronal susceptibility to degeneration in the cerebral cortex, by extending data on Alzheimer disease to other dementing disorders as well as animal models of age - related illnesses, and by defining the key neurochemical and morphological characteristics linked to relative vulnerability (or resistance to degeneration) of identified neuronal populations.

Arizona authorities have long opposed the release of captive wolf families into the wild, even though that is the most reliable means of bringing in more genetically diverse animals to ensure the survival of the wild population; currently, nearly all the wolves are related to each other as if they were siblings.

This maladaptation could disrupt population replenishment of this and other economically important species if animals fail to adapt to elevated CO2 conditions.

The Florida population was down to an estimated 30 animals at the time, with so much inbreeding that most of the panthers were related to each other.

While I can agree that Americans eat too much animal protein and even the wrong kind if it is not organic, when I look at some other cultures that do eat animal proteins such as the Japanese, or the Aleutian and Eskimo populations, they still have far better health measurement than even vegans and vegetarians in America.

Now with that said, one of the other major reasons that the majority of the population in «westernized» countries are more and more vitamin D deficient is that our animals are being raised in indoor factory environments nowadays and are seeing MUCH less sunshine than the animals are meant to see.

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»