Sentences with phrase «other carnivores»

Other carnivores on Ethiopia's Guassa Plateau, feral dogs and servals mostly, hunt the gelada monkeys — it would seem that the wolves would be a natural predator as well.
Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.
The idea that they could be interacting with other carnivores their same size in ways that might affect their distribution was new, novel and important to pursue.»
Cats also have better hearing than most other carnivores, including an ability to hear in the ultrasonic range to better track prey.
Carnivores are more likely to harbor parasites that can infect other carnivores.
Hyenas and wolves are generally not friendly toward other carnivores.
Since dogs, cats, ferrets and other carnivores in the wild don't cook or wash their food, does it really make sense to feed them dry, heat processed, grain based pet foods?
Lastly, your dangers are choking hazards which is a reality but dogs and other carnivores eat meat and meat bones all the time.
Whilst dogs do have teeth designed for tearing meat, compared to other carnivores dogs have more molars, which are used for crushing and grinding plant food.
Look at their teeth, exactly the same as other carnivores.
However in contrast to certain others carnivores, and not at all consistent with the cat being a strict carnivore, cats can efficiently digest cooked starch (Morris et al., 1977; Kienzle, 1993).
A lion may thrive on eating gazelle meat, but you probably wouldn't try to put them on an all - insect diet like other carnivores!
The team compared the giant panda's different areas of fur with the dark and light coloring of 195 other carnivore species and 39 bear subspecies.
For the last 10,000 years or so, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere remained more or less the same: plants photosynthesised tissues from atmospheric carbon, oceans dissolved atmospheric gases, rocks reacted with the atmosphere to form mineral carbonates, herbivores consumed plants, man and other carnivores devoured grazing animals, but the overall ratio of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide remained the same.
Among her duties she surveys martens, foxes and other carnivores on company land.
Throwing has played a vital role in our evolutionary past, enabling us both to hunt prey and to compete with other carnivores to scavenge carcasses.
CDV occurs among domestic dogs and many other carnivores, including raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
Could you tell us where Noah got FRESH MEAT for the tyrannosaurus rex pair and the other CARNIVORES for a YEAR?
Lions, tigers, bears, and wolves eat a lot of food — meat - which means its food would itself have to have been fed, like the food of every other carnivore on the ark.
With no large herbivores to eat, dire wolves, American lions and other carnivores would have starved as well.
«We looked at the underlying genetics to understand why certain abilities to survive in the wild evolved in cats and other carnivores,» said Michael Montague, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral research associate at The Genome Institute.
Intriguingly, when the researchers analyzed the rabies virus harbored by the hyenas, it turned out to be a strain genetically distinct from the one carried by the other carnivores.
Humans kill sharks, snakes, pumas, coyotes, wolves, bears, skunks, raccoons, crocodiles, and other carnivores by the millions annually.
What do you mean when you say that grizzly bears, or other carnivores, have a «culture»?
But the threat of canine distemper extends well beyond lions and tigers, and the virus has impacted a number of the world's other carnivores of conservation concern, including the highly endangered Ethiopian wolf and African wild dog, as well as the black - footed ferret in North America, to name just a few examples.
The actions of hyenas and other carnivores that actively competed for these remains largely explain why the fossil assemblage at Aramis contains an overrepresentation of teeth, jaws, and limb bone shaft splinters (versus skulls or limb bone ends).
«I believe this is the first study to document that a large, solitary carnivore provides a significant food subsidy for scavengers, other carnivores, and omnivores,» says Paul Beier, a wildlife ecologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff who wasn't involved in the research.
They searched in particular for genes under positive natural selection, and put those findings in context with what we know about cats relative to other carnivores.
According to biologists led by Dr Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland, the oral flora of Komodo dragons does not differ from any other carnivore.
We started scavenging the same carcasses that other carnivores — wild dogs and hyenas — lived on, and the more meat we ate, the more our guts SHRANK, «because we didn't need a giant vegetable processor anymore.»
Long before dogs became members of the household, they were wild animals that would fall prey to other carnivores.
They process medications differently than other carnivores.
In the wild, puppies and kits fall as prey to other carnivores and it is up to the mother to protect the litter as best she can, especially when she is off on hunting forages.
While cats are the «definitive host,» it's important to note that «wild game can be a source of T. gondii infection in humans, cats, and other carnivores.
Toxoplasma gondii (I) While it's true that cats are the definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii, it's important to note that «wild game can be a source of T. gondii infection in humans, cats, and other carnivores.
This afternoon, enjoy a lecture with a researcher from the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Cheetah Metapopulation Project, who will share information about their efforts to protect cheetahs and other carnivores.
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