Sentences with phrase «salamander which»

A story Peter was working on for the Fire volume insisted on expanding to book length with the title The Tears of the Salamander which was published in 2003.

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She founded Salamander Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality company, as well as the Middleburg Film Festival, which premiered La La Land last year.

After that reform, one voting district had roughly the shape of a salamander, which was nicknamed «the Gerry - mander» by the press.

Adzakuma would have been happier were he a salamander or a newt, both of which have the ability to regenerate eyes.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

A team of Danish researchers from Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark therefore studied the hearing of lungfish and salamanders, which have an ear structure that is comparable to that of different kinds of early terrestrial vertebrates.

Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

The fungus, which is lethal to at least a dozen European and North American salamander and newt species, has not yet reached the Americas, says Lips, a UMD associate professor of biology and one of the world's top experts in amphibian diseases.

«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.

B. salamandrivorans rapidly invades salamanders» skin, which plays a crucial role in the animals» respiratory system.

When the species was first seen and collected in 1909, its range was loosely described as being «between Pamir and Samarkand,» which means the salamander could be living in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, or Uzbekistan.

The researchers also looked at amphibian evolutionary history, which considers all the frogs, salamanders and caecilians that have existed over millions of years.

The Siberian Salamander, four species of brown frogs (genus Rana), four species of toads, one green frog (genus Pelophylax), two lizards and five species of snakes — these 17 species represent the entire recent amphibian and reptile fauna of Western Siberia, which therefore counts among the regions with the lowest species diversity regarding these animal classes in all of Eurasia and Northern Africa.

The region supports about 30 species of crayfish, including one that is blind and lives in caves; the Ozark hellbender, one of the world's largest salamanders, which can attain a length of nearly two feet; the Ozark crocus, found mostly in the Current River Basin; and nearly 150 distinct species of tree.

There are over 3,000 known species of modern amphibians, which includes Anura (frogs and toads), Urodela (newts and salamanders), and Gymnophiona (burrowing amphibians).

They say this regardless of whether your name is actually Liam, which is weird, though still probably not the weirdest thing about people who study salamander nostrils.

Although this wouldn't remove all the fish, for a few hundred thousand dollars it might give the salamanders a window in which to re-establish themselves.

Thanks to screening efforts, we already know which U.S. salamanders are vulnerable to Bsal, and the list includes some of the country's most widespread species.

Unlike frogs suffering from Bd, which thickens and hardens their skin, the salamander had ulcers all over its body.

An even bigger fear is that the pathogen will reach North America, which holds the world's greatest diversity of salamanders.

By December, Valdivia y Alvarado and Youcef - Toumi plan to have built a prototype manta ray and salamander, both of which require more complex movements than the original robo - fish.

So far, however, there are no signs of this happening with fire salamanders, which apparently can't mount any immune response to Bsal.

The study quantified the rate of decline and also showed that sexually mature fire salamanders are much more likely than juveniles to get infected (probably during fights with rivals or mating), which prevents them from reproducing and makes the population less likely to recover.

The remaining canals, located in the southern district of Xochimilco, are polluted and overrun with invasive carp and tilapia, which eat axolotl eggs and devour aquatic plants, destroying the banks where the salamanders once thrived.

Research conducted by Sandy Kawano and Richard Blob at Clemson University compared terrestrial locomotion in tiger salamanders and mudskipper fish, which have similar characteristics to early tetrapod ancestors.

We found that 1.88 billion salamanders inhabit one district of the Mark Twain National Forest alone, which is roughly 1,400 metric tons of biomass.

To that end, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a ban on interstate travel and importation of 201 salamander species in January 2016, which is still in place.

«The frog was really small, which may have made it easier for the salamander to catch it,» he adds.

DNA dissolved in cave water is helping us track the whereabouts of vulnerable olm salamanders, which promises to boost conservation efforts

Researchers have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, the Iberian ribbed newt, which is a full six times greater than the human genome.

One of the reasons why salamander genomes have not been sequenced before is its sheer size - six times bigger than the human genome in the case of the Iberian newt, which has posed an enormous technical and methodological challenge.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, the Iberian ribbed newt, which is a full six times greater than the human genome.

In his research on the axolotl, which is a Mexican salamander, Dr. Godwin discovered that when it comes to regenerating tissue without scarring, a white blood cell called the macrophage may be a triggering factor.

The primitive amphibian, which is a type of salamander found in Mexico, can regrow its legs, tail and even parts of its spinal cord.

In return, the team received skin swab samples from 639 salamanders belonging to 65 species, many of which are potential carriers of Bsal.

Guy Montag (the great Oskar Werner) is a fireman in the near future, a black - clad paladin for cultural cleansing sporting a salamander patch and a «451,» representing the temperature at which book paper burns.

It might be hard to imagine, but there is one aquatic salamander about which I must give some words of caution: the Amphiuma (this is both the common and genus name).

I do hope that someday the international ban might be lifted, both because I fear for the wellbeing of wild salamanders around the planet and because my favorites are two European animals: the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a terrestrial animal of vivid black and yellow coloration and an outgoing temperament, and the crested newt (Triturus cristatus), an aquatic newt in which the males develop a spectacular Godzilla - like crest when in breeding mode.

What we thought was going to be a lizard turns out to be slender salamander, which are great for gardens (they eat tons of slugs), but impossible to acquire food for in captivity.

Unlike other species of Batrachoseps occurring at low elevations on the mainland in which surface activity declines following the rainy season, Channel Islands slender salamanders remain surface active at some sites throughout the year.

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

There are four toes on the front and hind feet, which is also typical of slender salamanders.

This game includes «Salamander» which is the Japanese version of the game, and «Life Force» which is the rearranged version released in 1987.

That means the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has had five months to put into place protocols that could prevent this plague from reaching salamanders in the United States, which is home to the most diverse array of salamander species in the world.

-- All of these groups are in communication and coordination with representatives of state fish and wildlife agencies, which manage salamander species and are in support of immediate federal action.

-- Academic institutions are trying to determine which salamander species might be most susceptible and what treatment options, such as skin probiotics and vaccinations, might be available.

A fire salamander that was infected by the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, which may have reached Europe through the pet trade from Asia.

Herpetologists quickly began pressing United States agencies and officials (Dot Earth, Op - Ed article) to clamp down on the global exotic pet trade to cut the chances of the disease reaching the United States — which has the most diverse salamander population in the world.

This spring Keene, NH will be closing roads that cross through amphibian crossing zones, a decision which was based on years of data collected by Salamander Brigades.