Sentences with phrase «small animal population»

In addition, other than my studies of large animals, I had very few resources for treating small animal populations.

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On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

«How fear alone can cause animal extinction: Even the smell of a predator can have disastrous effects in populations of small size.»

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a...

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

(Roughly, the more bison there are, the greater their genetic diversity and the longer it will take to find the common ancestor of two animals chosen at random — just as one would expect residents of a small English village to be more closely related than two people picked at random from the world population.)

Along with the dozen or so animals to be released next week along the Aragón, Põdra and his colleagues plan to free another seven or eight animals, also bred in captivity, along the river Leizarán, some 140 kilometers to the northwest, to give a small existing population there a boost.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

The hope is that wildlife corridors will allow plants and animals to colonise new areas, or bring much - needed new blood into small populations that are in danger through inbreeding.

If a smaller population is enclosed, managers have to maintain genetic diversity by introducing new animals every few years.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

The increase in animals killed — at least 1500 pantropical spotted dolphins, 159 spinner dolphins, and 15 bottlenose dolphins in 2013 — raises concerns about these small and genetically unique island populations and the animals» welfare, the scientists say.

For animals, this could mean making sure a population doesn't get so small that something like a disease outbreak — such as the one that happened with saiga antelope in 2015 — or a really bad winter results in extinction.

The population of any given animal among the five million or so species on the planet is, on average, 28 percent smaller, thanks to humans.

Population data on the animals is incomplete, so their true conservation status is unknown, but their numbers are far smaller than many common marine species of dolphins, whose populations are composed of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

«Small population sizes and habitat fragmentation are well known threats to animals with limited mobility, but the impacts of these factors are hard to observe in wild populations,» said Forero - Medina, Species and Science Director for WCS's Colombia Program and a study co-author.

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

One of their more important avenues of research has been redesigning and enhancing state - of - the - art habitat connectivity maps that can be paired with satellite imagery to display the potential corridors used by animal populations to move between both large and small areas.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general population would want.

We're not talking every meal, or even every day, but each of these blue zone populations (Okinawa, Costa Rica, Sardinia, Seventh Day Adventists) consume small portions of animal foods weekly or monthly.

Humans in some populations have been dying of heart disease and cancer for a long time too (while other populations avoid these diseases by eating extremely small amounts of eggs and other animal products).

A small number of shelters regularly shoot at least some of the animals; shooting was earlier deemed a humane method of killing and to be acceptable for Oklahoma towns and cities with populations under 10,000 people.

CRITTERS USA's FOCUS CRITTERS USA is directed to the general population of small animal owners and written for the adult audience and first - time owners of one of these pets.

A hunter at heart, Shiba Inus should not be left with small animals unless you need some help in keeping the rodent population under control.

SAVSNET encompasses two distinct, but complementary approaches, Project 1 and Project 2, designed to investigate the disease status of the small animal vet - visiting population.

As fate would have it, she ran into OAS Director Megan Webb just after having read the story, and, in talking about the animals at the shelter, Megan told her about our small - dog population and how so many of the Chihuahua mixes look similar.

If a community needs minimal animal control services due to a small population of animals, local governments may employ an animal control officer and contract with a private operator, like a local veterinary clinic, to provide other services.

The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of limited animal shelter budgets.

Remember that even if only a small percentage of animals moving through your facility are slow track, if the length of stay is considerably longer than that of fast trackers, they will still make up a majority of the daily population.

That is no small feat for two counties like Marin and San Mateo counties with such massive, diverse and spread out populations of humans and animals.

It is not unusual for a normal adult animal to have small populations of adult roundworms and hookworms, as well as resting larvae, in body tissues.

No specific data is available on other animals, but based on the population difference between dogs and ferrets (78.2 million dogs versus 525,000 ferrets, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers» National Pet Owners Survey, 2011 - 2012), and considering that a lot of other things can bite and sting besides ferrets, the number of ferret bites must be rather small.

For many decades, Door County was equipped with little more than a handful of small municipal pounds to deal with the overwhelming lost and homeless animal population within its borders.

Any individual or organization that promotes TNR or other methods of dealing with feral cats while letting them remain outdoors is promoting the decline of native populations of birds and small animals and then the eventual EXTINCTION of same.

The list of companies and products is limited to a very few products that address only a small part of the issues for senior dogs and pets, let alone the entire companion animal population.

The number of confirmed cases of H1N1 infection in domestic animals is quite small compared to the overall US pet population.

During veterinary school I emphasized small animal medicine and helped provide care for the pets of the homeless population in Sacramento.

Rhode Island, the Ocean State, may be the smallest state with a population of 1,051,511 (year 2010) but it's residents have a huge love for animals.

She is a specialist in small animal internal medicine and has published more than 100 scientific papers on the health and welfare of animals in shelters, feline infectious diseases, humane alternatives for cat population control, and contraceptive vaccines for cats.

Many of these animals are considered adoptable to the general public; a smaller population is available to rescue groups.

Still, Merritt Clifton of Animal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, makes a compelling argument that the population of feral cats in the U.S. is much smaller than is often reported, and may very well be on the deAnimal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, makes a compelling argument that the population of feral cats in the U.S. is much smaller than is often reported, and may very well be on the deanimal protection issues, makes a compelling argument that the population of feral cats in the U.S. is much smaller than is often reported, and may very well be on the decline.

Key responsibilities include coordinating and managing the shelter animal population (intake, adoption, medical and enrichment programs), and supervision of a small staff of employees and volunteers.

Graduate training in translational research may be pursued in a number of fields related to clinical and basic sciences, including anesthesiology and pain management, behavior, cardiology, clinical epidemiology and population medicine, dentistry, diagnostic imaging (radiology), large animal internal medicine, large animal surgery, oncology, ophthalmology, production medicine (ruminant and swine), radiation oncology, small animal internal medicine, small animal surgery, and theriogenology.

He says overall, the number of birds and small animals being killed are high enough that cats and their hunting could be causing some wildlife populations to decline in some areas.

In contrast, control of cat populations is important for conservation biologists, who argue that TNR does not curtail, and in fact enables, predation on small wild animals.

Dr. Paul Maza, faculty member and consultant for the Cornell Feline Health Center, is also the director of a small group called FARVets (Feral, Abandoned, and Rescued animals) that assists animal welfare organizations abroad, in their missions to treat feline diseases and tackle overpopulation issues that may lead to abandonment of cats, inability to care for cats as pets, and feral cat populations.

Shelter medicine differs from traditional small animal private practice in that it blends individual patient care with population health management, including preventive medicine and behavioral health.

Jabali Ridge will open in Ruaha National Park, an area with one of Africa's largest animal populations and currently only a handful of small camps.