Sentences with phrase «other carnivores in»

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This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.

Herbivore coprolites are rare in the fossil record because a diet of leaves and other green plant material doesn't leave a lot of hard material to preserve (unlike bones in carnivore dung).

«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.

Cats also have better hearing than most other carnivores, including an ability to hear in the ultrasonic range to better track prey.

Although there are seven other native carnivore species on the island, the fossa is largely credited with keeping lemur populations in check.

According to a report published today in the journal Science, female African lions have an egalitarian breeding systemsetting them apart from not only other social carnivores but even males of their own species.

Although baleen whales are carnivores, filter - feeding on fish, krill, and other crustaceans, some of the microbes in their bellies look more like those of a vegetarian, microbiologists reported yesterday in Nature Communications.

«[It] has a single row of belly scales, it has very snake - like vertebrae, it has a body longer than the tail, it has hundreds of vertebrae, it has the remains of other vertebrate animals in the stomach and so it was a carnivore, it has backward pointing teeth.

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.

These dino - pioneers, such as Herrerasaurus, were «fleet - footed carnivores,» Persons says, thanks in part to an evolutionary advance in hip joints: Unlike the sprawling, reptilian stance of other archosaurs, dinosaurs had an erect posture, with their legs under their bodies.

Other mammals, such as lemurs, vesper bats, carnivores and even - toed ungulates, have MER41 relatives in their genomes, too, Feschotte and colleagues reported last year in Science.

Clayton suspects that other species may be able match the cooperative abilities of chimps, elephants and rooks — especially social carnivores that hunt in packs.

Examples of adaptive radiation can be found in: the Galapagos finches, Australia's marsupials, Hawaii's honeycreepers and fruit flies, Madagascar's carnivores and other mammals, New Zealand's birds and the prehistoric flying pterosaurs.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

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.

Based on work with other mammals» brains, the team knew that there was a fairly predictable link between the size of a carnivore's cerebral cortex and how many neurons were in it.

If you're the type who absent - mindedly noshes on nuts, pretzels, or other snack foods, taking in hundreds of calories without even noticing, the carnivore diet can help keep you in check.

so is flaxseed a good thing to add to my vegan low fat diet (mcdougall plan) to prevent colon polyps and other bowel diseases?there is a history of colon cancer in my family - my cousin, uncle, grndmother died of it but they were all carnivores eating meat, dairy.

It took me two weeks on carnivore to get rid of the «other voice» in my head that let to my binges.

You could also use carnivore as an elimination phase and then slowly reintroduce other foods back in to see if you can tolerate them.

Marine farming offers a partial solution but comes with its own barrel of worms: Farmed fish tend to be more prone to diseases which spread to wild stocks; virtually all farmed fish are carnivores and therefore need to be fed on other fish; and farming of some animals, such as shrimp, can lead to massive changes in nitrogen levels, damaging the surrounding ecology.

Unlike cats which are descended from carnivores, dogs are omnivorous animals that get most of their energy from carbohydrates; in commercial dog foods, carbohydrates come from cereals, legumes and other plant food - stuffs.

The belief that dogs are carnivores tends to make owners want to feed dogs all meat diets or, in other words, pure protein.

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.

Less is actually more here because dogs are mainly carnivores (animals who eat other animals, i.e. meat), and would only find a small amount of digested plant matter in their prey's stomach out in the wild.

Cats are carnivores and eat meat, feeding your cat diets high in grains, meal, gluten and other non meat products will not be healthy for the cat.

Cats have to eat meat, in other words they are «obligate carnivores».

This limited metabolic flexibility in cats and other obligate carnivores likely represents an evolutionary adaptation to a consistently abundant supply of dietary protein.

Remember that cats as obligate carnivores need proportionally more protein in its diet compared to other mammals (1 - 3).

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).

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 is similar to that of other small carnivores but higher than the 26 % mortality reported in pet kittens.

In one study, 75 % of rural kittens died or disappeared before 6 months of age, a survival rate similar to other small carnivores (Nutter 2004).

In wild carnivores, the presenting signs are often neurological and the disease must be differentiated from rabies and other encephalitides.

Because they are carnivores, while most other small pets are omnivores or herbivores, their feces are much more offensive, and the scent glands in their skin produce strong odors.

The rationale behind these single - protein snacks is that dogs and cats are natural carnivores that thrive on nutrients from the meat, bones and organs of other animals they would eat in their natural environment.

Newman's seems like an exceptional quality cat food, but I can no longer feed my cats food that comes at the cruel expense of other animals (it's bad enough that they are obligate carnivores and need meat in the first place!)

It lives in the intertidal Thalassia, but prefers the muddy inner lagoon and Chetumal Bay, and is an aggressive carnivore feeding on other snails, clams etc..

Anyway, since he's a carnivore, I have no choice but to kill other creatures in order to survive.

With a few friends in tow (either two new AI compatriots or other human players via local co-op or online multiplayer), you'll track down packs of carnivores and truly enormous behemoths on land and sea, set traps and hound them down.

We also have some — though not many — reefs even in the Caribbean that have a lot of healthy coral and are patrolled by sharks, grouper, snapper, barracuda, and other large carnivores.