Sentences with phrase «rather than mammals»

To figure out TB's devious tricks, a team led by Stanford University microbiologist Stanley Falkow investigated a close relative of TB, one that infects frogs rather than mammals.

Not exact matches

The human mammal would rather not think of itself as little more than an animal so we go off to the religion of life called OZ.

The way to resolve this is by way of a new wild mammals welfare law that would address such situations and any accusations of causing unnecessary suffering would then be tested in court on the basis of evidence, rather than prejudice or ignorance.

The shape of the creature's 36 - centimeter (1.2 - foot) snout, which points straight forward rather than slightly downward like today's river dolphins, suggests the mammal spent most of its time at sea and likely fed on fish, the scientists say.

Even among us mammals, active fathering is the exception rather than the rule.

Q30 The monotremes are an order of mammals indigenous to Australia and New Guinea that sensibly lay eggs rather than go through the trauma of childbirth.

-- thought to be the first demonstration of heritability of an ornament selected through mate choice, rather than fighting, in a large mammal.

This illustration in a fish with a proven ancient lineage of a highly evolved system controlling variations in heart rate suggests that its evolution was necessarily linked to the advent of air breathing over primitive vertebrate lungs rather than the much later appearance of mammals.

Sea otters must eat about 25 % of their body weight daily to maintain their body temperature since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm — it's like a 120 - pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.

How does one know that such evidence points to a common origin, rather than separate but convergent evolution of sleep in reptiles, birds and mammals?

Most of the time, though, paleontologists had ignored maxilloturbinals or confused them with other turbinals that both reptiles and mammals use for smelling rather than for recycling water.

So rather than taking after big marine mammals, what if we could learn from the littler ones, like beavers and otters?

Smiley points out studying prolactin in birds and fish, rather than in mammals such as mice, sheds light onto how the hormone evolved.

Most mammals produce facial expressions — such expressions are considered an important part of an animal's behavioural repertoire — but it has long been assumed that animal facial expressions, including some human facial expressions, are involuntary and dependent on an individual's emotional state rather than being flexible responses to the audience

Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.

Marshall, a noted expert on animal domestication, considers the research exciting because it shows that settled hunter - gatherers rather than farmers were the first people to transform environmental relations with small mammals.

It is for the first time that (a) magnetic sensitivity was proved in dogs, (b) a measurable, predictable behavioral reaction upon natural MF fluctuations could be unambiguously proven in a mammal, and (c) high sensitivity to small changes in polarity, rather than in intensity, of MF was identified as biologically meaningful.

We demonstrate, for the first time (a) magnetic sensitivity in dogs, (b) a measurable, predictable behavioral reaction upon natural magnetic field (MF) fluctuation in a mammal, and (c) high sensitivity to small changes in polarity, rather than in intensity, of the MF.

To become effective summarizers, ELLs need instruction in combining sentences and in the use of superordinates, so that they can use category words (e.g., relatives, hobbies, injuries, mammals, countries) rather than enumerating lists.

Both 200 pounders remain very active and know dozens of behaviors, but they had become more dependent on hearing the verbal commands of their marine mammal trainers rather than seeing their hand signals.

Bandicoot and Vault sometimes prefer to snuggle together in a carrier rather than their spacious pool at The Marine Mammal Center!

Increased mismatches between food availability in ecosystems need to also include reduced energy demands needed to maintain body temperature, such as for marine mammals and the fact that plants and cold - blooded animals usually grow faster when warmer rather than colder.