Sentences with phrase «small ground mammals»

, pika and marmot (two small ground mammals that can provide a snow leopard with snacks), scat of a roe deer, sign of weasel and a couple of foxes frolicking in the morning dew.

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Deer can have a significant effect on woodland biodiversity including ground flora, small mammals and bird communities.

For example, while hibernating, small mammals like the ground squirrel slow their pulse and breathing and can lower their core body temperature to just a few degrees above freezing.

Though an able flyer, it is one of only two species known to hunt exclusively on the ground, snatching up insects, small mammals, and reptiles with its sharp beak or stomping them to death with its strong feet.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

Bruxism, a loud tooth grinding, is a common clinical sign of pain in small mammals.

«When [customers are buying] a small mammal, they're an easy add - on,» said Steven Bateman, owner of Steve's Pet Shop in Oakhurst, Calif. «If you mention the pet's teeth need to be ground down, you're going to add a sale real quick.

As I say, it's largely conjecture on my part; at the same time, though, it's easy to imagine its potential impact on small mammals (and ground - feeding birds, for that matter).

The eggs hatch in the mid-to-late-summer as larval ticks (the size of tiny freckles), and feed on small mammals like mice and chipmunks or ground - dwelling birds.

And if you put a few things together, like a fire regime that doesn't help cats, a population of dingoes that hinders cats and maybe minimal livestock grazing that also means there's plenty of cover on the ground for small mammals to get refuge from predators, then we could allow cats and small mammals to co-exist.

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Keep your eyes sharp, looking for lizards and small mammals (coatis, agoutis, peccaries) on the ground, and once you get to the tree tops, try and spy colorful toucans and parrots.

By damaging vegetation, rabbits also decreased the number of food sources for many of the small ground - dwelling mammals that lived in Australia, leading to their extinction.

«Generally, large scale burning is increasingly seen as an ecological disaster because it opens up the ground cover and greatly exposes small and medium vertebrates to predation by dingoes, foxes and feral cats,» Dr. Terry Dawson, who studies environmental physiology and arid zone mammals and birds, told TreeHugger.