Sentences with phrase «predators like»

It's Mostly Unproven» explored the potential for therapeutic treatment for sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein, who after accusations of sexual harassment and assault, have claimed to seek professional help.

Its long canines hinted at its close evolutionary ties to land - based predators like bears and dogs.

What if affluent rogue doctors (the woefully inept and sexual predators like to one featured in today's National Post) were made to pay their own way rather than enjoy unlimited, tax - payer paid CMPA lawyering.

Females are a perfectly camouflaged brown — important when trying to evade predators like Arctic foxes while sitting on a nest on the tundra.

Researchers hope that by finding and tracking the birds, which hide out during the day in their burrows, they can protect them from predators like dogs, cats and foxes, and habitat loss.

The crabs, thanks to better conditions in the sea and less predators like the octopus, are reproducing more rapidly than previous years.

Discover how acorns and white - footed mice amplify disease risk, why predators like foxes make good neighbors, and the impact climate change and forest fragmentation have on the spread of tick - borne disease.

During the sea butterflies» short life, which can be less than a year, they are under constant attacks from predators like sea angels that can damage their periostracum.

It's believed that some of the new warmer - water predators like black sea bass are threatening lobster populations.

Population declines have already been noted, though other factors like increased opredation by feral predators like cats seem to be the main cause.

Armadillos, porcupines, and sloths colonized North America, while horses and predators like foxes and bears entered the southern continent.

Warming waters and the elimination of key predators like sharks and tuna, hav made conditions ideal for the soft, brainless, organisms and their numbers have

Many steps up the food chain later, predators like tuna receive methylmercury from the fish they consume... it appears the recent mercury enrichment of the sampled Pacific Ocean waters is caused by emissions originating from fallout near the Asian coasts.

With huge metabolic demands — and large populations before humans started hunting them — great whales are the ocean's ecosystem engineers: they eat many fish and invertebrates, are themselves prey to other predators like killer whales, and distribute nutrients through the water.

A healthy unfished reef is inhabited by top predators like sharks and grouper and total fish biomass is roughly 500 grams per square meter.

This isn't a problem with birds at our feeder if we follow some basic rules of thumb to keep birds safe and feeders clean, but it's a problem when supplying food to predators like foxes, coyotes, and owls, all of whom can very quickly become habituated to people, learning to associate them with handouts.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

The lunar cycles of the Gladden Spit Marine Reserve bring enormous schools of fish to the area to spawn, releasing enormous clouds of eggs that attract top predators like whale sharks.

Coral reefs and shallow waters lure in predators like bonefish, tarpon, snapper, jack, snook, grouper and king mackerel.

As a result, the project benefits every kind of marine species, from commercial groupers and snappers, common butterfly fish and fusiliers to the large predators like tuna and sharks.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnacles, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnaces, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

The calm, warm waters of the lagoon are a safe place for young whales, free from predators like killer whales.

This is a bowel - twisting condition resulting from eating big reef predators like barracuda, grouper and snapper.

In the wild, an injured wolf that whines will attract predators like a garbage truck attracts flies.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.

In their native South Africa, these powerful farm dogs fend off fierce predators like leopards.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

The reason for this is to camouflage in the winter snow and to hide from overhead predators like eagles and owls in the wild.

But theoretically, dingoes should be able to suppress smaller predators like feral cats and red foxes through competition, which would benefit small rodents and marsupials due to reduced predation.

Because play mimics hunting behavior, opportunities to play can be especially rewarding for predators like cats.

The horns also help them to defend against predators like mountain lions and bears.

It's not appropriate leave out all the time, and it can attract predators like fox, coyotes or fishers.

3 — Isn't TNR less desirable in areas of the country that have freezing cold winters and, recently, an increase in predators like coyotes?

Their original — and current — purpose as a breed is to guard smaller livestock against predators like coyotes, foxes, and mountain lions.

Sala and his team discover that pristine seas feature an inverted food chain, with an abundance of predators like sharks, polar bears, seals and crocodiles, which thrive when safe from fishermen and hunters.

Since this is a G - rated film, there are no close - ups of prey animals being torn to ribbons by predators like the snow leopard, but you do see some shots of the large animals feeding on carcasses, having chased down the slower members of the unfortunate prey.

The unprecedented move was meant to further the conversation about sexual harassment in Hollywood following the #MeToo movement, the fall of accused predators like Harvey Weinstein and the Time's Up campaign, which was launched this month by many of the same women at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday.

They depend on sea ice to hide them from predators like killer whales.

Against this hypothesis, intoxication of bustard predators like golden eagles Aquila chrysaetus or foxes Vulpes vulpes has never been reported.

In particular, extreme weather events that lead to habitat destruction and large wildfires provide ideal conditions for invasive predators like feral cats and red foxes to move in and decimate native fauna.

Michael Robinson, Conservation Advocate, focuses on the protection and recovery of top predators like Mexican gray wolves and jaguars.

Taken together, these organisms weigh approximately 10 billion tons and are a major link in the food chain between microscopic plankton and top predators like tuna, birds and marine mammals, according to Simone Baumann - Pickering, an assistant research biologist at the University of California, in San Diego.

It's thanks to all these small fish that top predators like sharks are so plentiful near South Africa.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

Ecologists say wolves should be allowed to roam beyond remote wilderness areas — and that by scaring off smaller predators like coyotes and jackals, wolves might do a good service, too.

Circular pupils are generally found on animals that chase down their prey, such as cheetahs, or on taller ambush predators like lions and tigers.

The defrosting is likely to have a cascading effect, concentrating migratory birds that feed at the freshwater lakes into smaller areas and making some species more vulnerable to predators like foxes.

Bent ears are better for sweeping the area for potential prey, such as moths, or for predators like owls, while upright ears could zero in on prey when bats dive for an attack.

A close relative of Triceratops, this new dinosaur species had sharp horns on its nose and over its eyes to defend against predators like Tyrannosaurus rex, and an ornate frill behind its head, most likely for sexual display.