Sentences with phrase «population of lion»

Also, a good healthy population of lion fish there.

Quite often you will find a lot of stargazers and also, a good healthy population of lion fish there.

Last November, prompted by fears that the epidemic might spill over into the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, where the small, inbred population of lions is vulnerable to new diseases, Cleaveland vaccinated dogs around the crater.

And later, he analyzed patterns of mortality and reproduction in natural populations of lions and baboons (see «Just Like the Joneses») by working with other scientists who had already been collecting field data from the mammals.

The study also finds that half of unfenced populations of lions are likely to dwindle in the next few decades.

Distemper affects other animals as well; raccoons, coyotes, wolves, foxes, ferrets, skunks, weasels, mink, badgers, hyenas, and jackals can also catch the disease and a population of lions in Africa has been decimated by it.

There are also healthy populations of lion — originally from the Etosha National Park in Namibia — leopard, hippo, giraffe, zebra, hyena and elephant.

Spend days trekking through World Heritage Sites like Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, home to the densest population of lions on earth, and evenings in camp, dining by candlelight under the cosmos, hundreds of miles from humanity.

Not exact matches

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

«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.

We're doing everything possible under this law to help range countries protect their lion populations and to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of their conservation programs.

lion of zion, for the specific population of healthy normal woman with healthy normal pregnancies, they have found that home births actually have better outcomes for both baby and mother — i.e. better apgars, better weight gain after the birth, and other indicators of maternal and baby wellbeing.

David Macdonald: It's important for us to understand how lion societies react to mortality of all sorts within the population.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

They found that each of the nine lion populations in West Africa, save for one, is in decline (and two populations in that area might already be locally extinct).

Indeed, if lions» wild prey is edged out by the grazing livestock of a swelling African population, they will have no choice but to develop a taste for beef.

A detailed analysis of the lives of nearly a thousand people from birth to age 38 shows that a small portion of the population accounts for the lion's share of social costs such as crime, welfare dependence and health - care needs as adults.

The lions of Gir, the remnant of a population that once stretched from Greece to India, today number about 320.

I mean, not every zebra of course have, [having] seen many lions eating zebras — but enough zebras do survive, so that their population continues on and that's pretty much the same down with human beings there, though of course in recent years it has gotten a little more challenging because we've become much more cunning and technologically empowered predators than we were before.

The study found that less than one third of the 175 parks and reserves examined are currently conserving lions at more than 50 % of their «carrying capacity» — an ecological term for the natural population levels animals reach if human threats are minimal.

Published in Biological Conservation, the study shows that populations of the African lion and its prey species are drastically below their natural potential inside most of Africa's protected areas (PA).

As populations of sea lions and seals in northern habitats continue to decline, satellites are providing scientists with a better understanding of the animals» feeding patterns.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

That suggests that the removal of a limited number of sea lions in such programs is unlikely to affect the population as a whole, Melin said.

«Given the likelihood that the California sea lion population is approaching carrying capacity, density - dependent effects such as food limitation (and stranding) of pups may be a long - term consequence of a rebuilt sea lion population during periods of low abundance of high - quality forage,» the scientists wrote.

A strange sickness was sweeping through the population, claiming lions of all ages, from young cubs to adults in their prime.

Their models based on past population shifts predict that an increase of 1 degree C in sea surface temperature off the West Coast will reduce sea lion population growth to zero, while an increase of 2 degrees will lead to a 7 percent decline in the population.

Scientists combined the results of sea lion pup counts in the Channel Islands, aerial surveys of sea lion rookeries, survival rates and other information to reconstruct the growth of the sea lion population from 1975 to 2014.

Though Estes can't prove it, he thinks the killer whales subsequently turned to other populations of marine mammals, first decimating seals and sea lions before doing the same to otters.

And the researchers have reason to believe this change is in the works: The foxes have been outcompeted by growing populations of coyotes in the regions, which are becoming the top predators in areas where mountain lions and wolves have gone extinct.

The consequences of cougar overcrowding in fragmented habitat are painfully clear just 300 miles south of the Santa Cruz population, where biologists struggle to save about 12 mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains above LA.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

The current population of the Florida panther, a subspecies of the mountain lion, is estimated at 100 to 140 cats.

Another possibility is that the recovery of seal and sea lion populations off the coast of California, thanks again to successful marine protection policies, are giving the sharks more reason to stay in these waters.

A new study of lions in African reserves suggests that most populations should be protected with fences, a strategy that can be expensive in the short - term and is at odds with some conservationists» vision of wildlife.

The difference could be critical for the future of lions; the study found that almost half of unfenced lion populations may sink to less than 10 % of their potential size over the next 2 to 4 decades.

When the population of Steller sea lions in one area of Alaska declined dramatically, environmentalists had to threaten the government with a lawsuit to get the species put on the threatened list in 1990.

Led by Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, a team of biologists took a closer look at the diminishing lion populations in Tanzania over the last decade.

Now the lion population has dwindled to less than a tenth of that.

The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.

The Santa Ana range is surrounded by an expanding population of about 20 million people, while a corridor linking cougar territory there to a bigger range - and more lions - to the east is cut off by a 10 - lane highway.

From their examination of the historical record, the authors argue that the extant lion and cheetah populations of India are not native but the results of animals imported by royalty for sport.

Though it's been known that big cats can be infected with the virus since the 1980s, it wasn't considered a threat to such species until 1994, when the virus swept through the Serengeti lion population, killing 1,000 animals, about 30 percent of the population.

Analysis of DNA from about 350 mountain lions, or cougars, statewide revealed that those in the Santa Ana Mountains southeast of Los Angeles are only about half as genetically diverse as more robust populations in the Rockies.

«A lion tale: Humans cause most mountain lion deaths in Southern California: Genetic hopes of the population may rely on one lady lion.»

Lead author Winston Vickers, an associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said fragmentation of mountain lion populations by highways is happening to a serious degree in the Santa Ana mountain range, as well as elsewhere in Southern California, such as the Santa Monica Mountains.

Most of the available mountain lion habitat in Southern California is sandwiched between the greater Los Angeles and San Diego areas, home to a growing population of about 20 million people.

The biggest threat to Southern California mountain lions is us, confirms a comprehensive 13 - year study of the population's mortality and survival from the University of California, Davis.

«As protected conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas,» says Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist from University of New South Wales, in a news release.