Sentences with phrase «predators on»

Moose have very few predators on land and only one marine predator, the killer whale; killer whales have been observed hunting moose migrating between islands in the Pacific Northwest.

It was a wildly successful introduction as the landscape particularly suits the Moose and there are no natural predators on the island, to the point where currently there are somewhere between 125,000 - 150,000 Moose on the island.

The climate change deniers isolate individual scientists just as predators on the Serengeti Plain of Africa hunt their prey: picking off vulnerable individuals from the rest of the herd.»

Australia has had all kinds of problems with species that don't have natural predators on the continent in the past (including camels, of all things), and there's even a Simpsons episode that makes a reference to it.

There are more than 100 hashtags that attract child predators on social media, and the Child Rescue Coalition is urging parents to think of their children's right to privacy.

To tackle this problem, other projects have applied special film that is visible to birds, while others have installed artificial bird predators on the roofs to scare birds away.

One of the highlights was a night dive amongst the night predators on the prowl for food including giant trevalley, reef sharks, and assorted Groupers.

See the biggest marine iguanas mingling with sally - lightfoot crabs, as well as flightless cormorants nesting sites, Galapagos penguins and the «King» of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk.

Search by spotlight for one of the oldest and most awesome predators on earth - the saltwater crocodile.

We spend another summer with largest predators on continent, coming to know them, their characteristics and tendencies.

Due to the absence of natural predators on the islands, the animals seemed unafraid of humans.

Continue exploring as night falls, searching for nocturnal predators on the prowl.

Put your most expensive large non-cichlid predators on sale in the summer.

And since the rabbits don't have any natural predators on the island, they tend to make for an easy target.

The letter expressed strong opposition to free - roaming cats within the U.S. «due to the adverse impacts of these non-native predators on federally listed threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and other vulnerable native wildlife.»

This coat protects the dog against the elements and predators on the Puszta of its homeland, Hungary.

The Great Pyrenees is a large, thickly coated, and immensely powerful working dog bred to deter sheep - stealing wolves and other predators on snowy mountaintops.

Because most of the threatened species studied here live on islands, managing invasive predators on islands should be a global conservation priority.

Very little is known about the impact of invasive predators on invertebrate species.

Until now, these shocking statistics have been unknown, and the heavy toll of invasive predators on native biodiversity grossly underappreciated.

Companies selling services to protect children and teenagers from sexual predators on the Internet have enlisted the help of schools and teachers to verify students» personal information.

Can a bunch of heavily armed but not - too - bright human scavengers survive a night of terror against the most hungry and horrific predators on earth?

How come they display the guys as predators on poor college sugar babies selling their bodies?

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Australian children targeted by sexual predators on new app Yellow.

Not too far away, Dr Sean Doody and his team from the University of Canberra have been examining the ecological impact of cane toads on aquatic predators on the Daly River.

For predators on land, chickadees use their chick - a-dee-dee-dee call.

Cooper wants to test this idea, but says that it is hard to get decent data on the numbers, densities and types of predators on different islands.

The study of island populations is particularly valuable for detecting the effects of predators on local prey species, because of the relatively closed nature of island ecological systems (Blackburn et al., 2004; Swadling, 2010).

The snake, which has no natural predators on the island, quickly drove 10 of the 12 forest bird species in Guam to extinction and drastically reduced the remaining two species.

A century of digging found no teeth from giant predatory dinosaurs, a sign that pterosaurs were the biggest and baddest predators on the island.

In other tests, they manipulated the number of insect predators on the plants.)

There the geckos evolved in isolation, away from predators on the plains.

During 160 million years of the Mesozoic Era, theropods became the dominant predators on all continents, yet never conquered aquatic environments.

«Ravens in some cases are major predators on other bird species, particularly those that nest in communities,» says biologist William Boarman of the U.S. Geological Survey in San Diego.

Although considered one of the most successful predators on Earth due to the high kill - rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.

They also call for more research comparing the ecological role of top predators on the edge of their geographic range, especially in human - modified environments.

That's the main finding of a study appearing May 23 in Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next - in - line predators they eat and compete with.

«It will be interesting to see the influence of large predators on smaller predators in other parts of the world, especially the role of the big cats such as jaguars, leopards, lions and tigers,» said co-author William Ripple of Oregon State University.

The latest casualty of the Congressional Review Act could be a US Fish and Wildlife Service rule that prohibits the wholesale killing of predators on wildlife refuges in Alaska.

With a swipe of the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to void a rule within 60 congressional days of its implementation, the rule protecting predators on wildlife refuges in Alaska could be overturned.

The deer that can sense danger the quickest and run the fastest are able to escape the predator on a more consistent basis.

But we can be sure of this: Every time Christians choose to condemn a sexual predator on «the left» or in «the media» while defending the sexual predators in their own communities, victims of sexual assault will justifiably conclude that there is no safe place for them in the Church.

«It appears that the teju itself has a predator on the island, though we still have not identified what it is, and a new balance has been achieved,» says da Silva.

If the quarter - tonne Hatzegopterxy was the biggest predator on the island, it wouldn't have to worry about flying to a safe place with a belly - full of dinner.

He proposes that visual glitches are the result of a brain that is beautifully calibrated to detect biologically relevant information — responding effectively to motion (which might indicate a predator on the run) while messing up on simplecolor matching, which generally has little relevance to survival.

This invasive grouper has become the dominant predator on some reefs in Hawai`i.

Furthermore, just kicking up your activity level quickly is a very stressful endeavor — in the wild, you would only do that if there was a predator on your tail.

A rabbit makes a shadow puppet of a predator on a large stone wall and cave people run in fear.

From here the film alternates between what is intended to be character development and tracking the Predator on its spree of mass slaughters.