Sentences with phrase «small rodent 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.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

This work illustrates how the study of inbred canine populations can provide new insights into the genetic underpinnings of complex disease, bridging the gap between small rodent models and humans.

«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.

The team speculates that detrimental mutations have survived in humans and chimps because these species have had much smaller breeding populations than rodents throughout evolution.

Subsequent to this, weight - loss trials within human populations 35 - 52 as well as some rodent trials 22, 27, 53, 54 have used an array of IER protocols which permit a small energy load to be consumed on the «fast» day, so that energy intake is partially but not completely restricted.

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.

There are also many populations of native rodents and smaller marsupials within the park, allowing researchers to assess whether the dingoes suppression of smaller predators would prove beneficial to the smallest critters.

A small number of cats could serve to keep the rodent population low.

The U.S. retained a large feral cat population long after street dogs disappeared, partly because cats are smaller than dogs, with smaller food requirements, and partly also because street dogs scavenge much more than hunt rodents, whereas feral cats hunt rodents much more than scavenge.

Over time they were bred for smaller sizes to be ratters, and they were often brought aboard on ships to keep the rodent population under control.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.