Sentences with phrase «rabbit population»
A real-life study of a coordinated cat eradication effort on an island — intended to protect endangered species from predation — saw the rabbit population on the island spike wildly.
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It killed 99 % of the UK's rabbit population when it arrived in the country in 1953.
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Substantial numerical decline in South Australian rabbit populations following the detection of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2
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But once this predator was removed, the rabbit population exploded.
SCIENCE
The Iberian lynx is threatened by poaching, road kills, habitat loss and lack of prey following a series of disease outbreaks in the rabbit populations.
SCIENCE
In fact, in some rabbit populations, incidents of malignant uterine cancer have been documented as high as 80 %.
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As the numbers of cats declined, the last having been killed in 2000, the rabbit population increased, to an estimated 100,000 by 2007 ---- and rabbit damage to bird nesting habitat proved far more damaging to the sea bird population than cat predation ever had been.
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So if you've ever wanted to have your own wolf pack, fly like an eagle, ride a bear or even just have the entire rabbit population bow their fuzzy ears to you, this is the game.
GAMING
The release of the two rabbit biocontrol agents - Myxoma virus and Rabbit Calicivirus - led to a dramatic reduction of Australia's rabbit population and has recovered more than $ 70 billion to the agricultural industries since 1950.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
Rain, heat, famine and glut — there isn't anything that the ever-growing rabbit population doesn't encounter.
BOOKS
Neutering rabbits makes them happier and healthier and enables them to live as bonded pairs or groups, meeting social needs without increasing rabbit population.
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These personal statistics suggest to me that only about 10 % of the domestic rabbit population would be suitable for public human events, traveling, or noisy homes full of kids.
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In some rabbit populations the rate of malignant uterine cancer (specifically called uterine adenocarcinoma) can approach 80 % of all the females.
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As for the rest of your comment insisting that the laws of thermodynamics are being broken... I'm a hardcore, in your face, let's debate any time anywhere anybody but only the direct science not the bunny rabbit population in northern Alberta has declined one percent so that's why there is more snow in Europe this year SKEPTIC.
ENVIRONMENT
Myxomatosis This disease was originally used to control the rabbit population in France, but from there spread across the European continent, even to Britain, and over the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.
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Nothing at all about the marsh rabbit population.
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In the wild, rabbits stay trim, fit and healthy because they are surrounded by the foods they evolved to eat — rabbit populations thrive in areas that are full of hay, grasses, and other plants that help them reproduce successfully.
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This is caused by the myxoma virus, which is widely distributed in the wild rabbit population.
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Since then, many rabbit populations have grown resistant to the disease and in some places as many as 70 per cent of rabbits survive infection.
SCIENCE
What is more humane or less humane: to let the feral cats continue to annihilate our native quail and rabbit populations in the wild or to install a program that can keep up with the breeding ability of these cats?
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[23] Seabird populations responded rapidly, [24] but rats and rabbits population increased after the cats were culled, and continued to cause widespread environmental damage.
TRAVEL
This is a flea that is specific for rabbits, it was released into Australia in 1993 to try and aid the spread of Myxomatosis in the wild rabbit population.
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In another poor attempt at taming the situation, scientists set the Myxoma virus (which spreads a disease called myxomatosis that is lethal to rabbits) upon an unsuspecting rabbit population, with brutally effective results.
ENVIRONMENT
First introduced by an English settler as hunting fodder in 1859, the European rabbit population soon ballooned to an estimated 10 billion, contributing to extensive environmental damage and the extinction of some native species.
SCIENCE
Improvements in the rabbits» health through better nutrition and sanitation has made the raising and maintenance of rabbit populations easier, making them increasingly useful as a research tool.
SCIENCE
It's up to this brother and sister to keep the garden's rodent and rabbit population from overrunning the place, and Acer takes this job very seriously.
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Read up on the subsequent biological weapons of mass destruction used in a vain attempt to control the rabbit population.
ENVIRONMENT
Do you think this program will continue to help the local rabbit population?
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Persons concerned for the ecosystem have supported drastic reductions of rabbit populations by whatever means necessary.
RELIGION