Sentences with phrase «other biologists began»

Twenty - four years ago, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy and other biologists began a remarkable experiment on the fast - eroding fringe of rain forest near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

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Then in 1986 biologists observed that captive dolphins housed in separate tanks kept making their own distinct whistles and then began repeating the whistles of companions held in other tanks.

Three years ago, he and the other leaders of the Melungeon Heritage Association enlisted the help of Kevin Jones, a biologist at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, and began rounding up genetic samples from local families.

Sure enough, this is the same Peter P. Marra who, along with nine others (including Dauphiné and Cooper), authored a comment in Conservation Biology earlier this year, entitled «What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap - Neuter - Return: Response to Longcore et al.» (the publication of which prompted a series of Vox Felina posts, beginning with this one).

... The emergence of ecology has placed the economic biologist in a peculiar dilemma: with one hand he points out the accumulated findings of his search for utility, or lack of utility, in this or that species; with the other he lifts the veil from a biota so complex, so conditioned by interwoven cooperating and competitions, that no man can say where utility begins or ends.