Sentences with phrase «species feed on»

For one thing, many fish species feed on zooplankton.

But because both species feed on the same prey in similar environments, they may have developed nearly identical physical traits — a process known as parallel evolution.

Many bird species feed on insects, and an abundant presence may thus also contribute to a better natural pest control.

Any plant species feeding on their resultant fertilizes may also pick - up their sub-human traits and passed them on in the food chain.

So far, it has only been reported that one species feeds on lizards.

Many scientists have long considered the length of the food chain in the open sea to be relatively stable, with roughly the same animal species feeding on each other through time.

Not exact matches

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Each of the 8 people on board could give each species a quarter of a second each day for feeding, watering, and cleaning, assuming they never sleep and never stop and that quarter second includes going for the food and water.

And to not only create the human species but to place us on a planet that revolves perfectly around a burning sun to give us seasons in which to grow food and harvest it to feed ourselves.

These show one species hunting and feeding on another.

Invertebrates, fruit, and nectar are the most important food sources for birds in coffee plantations, so coffee farms are especially important to bird species that feed on these resources.

Usual heavy concentrations of white fronted geese reported, but blues and snows are crowding them out of feed and water, suggesting need for more lenient limits on these species.

Meanwhile, what we do know is that human beings exhibit the characteristics of continual feeders, and it's a sure bet that relatively frequent, «on demand» feedings have been the historic and evolutionary norm for our species.

Casein is significantly lower in human milk, whereas it is significantly higher in cow's milk, making cow milk tough for human babies to digest, and making human milk unfit for feeding to baby cows... All mammals have some whey protein in their milk - it is merely in different compositions depending on the mammal and the needs of that species» young.

For example, for at least the first nine months that human babies is a quadruplet and that would suggest that maybe feeding on the baby is coming like some of our mammalian cousins do, would be more species specific than being held with close pressure applied on the babies back and head and neck as it's necessary when mothers sit upright.

In part, it reflects our status as a slow - growing species dependent on frequent infant feeds.

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

«A species can't exist feeding only on itself.»

The castor bean tick Ixodes ricinus, a European species that carries Lyme disease, faces an engineering problem: Its needlelike mouthparts are good at piercing but useless for hanging on during long periods of feeding.

Many monkey species feed primarily on fruits, and the seeds of these fruits are either spat out or scattered through their faeces.

As a result, predators that consume their own kind run a greater risk of picking up a disease or a parasite than predators that feed solely on other species.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, conducted research on wild bonobos and found that in this species individuals produce a call type, known as the «peep», across a range of positive, negative and neutral situations, such as during feeding, travel, rest, aggression, alarm, nesting and grooming.

The next stage involved feeding those species for which no markers could be identified into a more comprehensive database of published literature, which was available to LGC on a pay - per - go basis.

Bat biologists have previously observed the nocturnal mammals feeding on many prey species, but it's hard to measure what the bats prefer.

DNA contamination from several species of bivalve was also detected, which indicates that, like other species of Xenoturbella, X. japonica likely feeds on marine bivalves.

According to an article by Brazilian researchers published in 2015 in the journal Current Biology, the newborn larvae of Scaptotrigona depilis, a species of stingless bee native to Brazil, feed on filaments of a fungus cultivated in the brood cells.

Heidel - Baker reared a new related species of parasitic wasp, now called A. bicolor, on a different host Uroleucon aphid that feeds on asters.

Various species of fish swim into the forest, where they feed on fruits — and later disperse seeds.

Rather than feeding on bat guano like many other cave cockroaches, the new species instead graze on bacteria and fungi.

To produce these efficiency estimates, the research team collected data on variables including feed composition, feed conversion ratios, edible portions and nutritional content of major farmed terrestrial and aquatic animal species.

Species: Great frigatebird, Fregata minor Habitat: Breeds on tropical islands in the southern Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans; feeds on fish and squid in the open ocean

The decline in phosphorus is expected to reduce the abundance of phytoplankton (microscopic plants) and fish that feed on them, species that make up 40 percent of commercial fish yield.

It's Cucujus cinnaberinus, an endangered species that feeds on dead trees, and one example, Bohdan says, of why it's harmful to remove the dead trees.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

Some species are known to feed on earthworms and other slugs.

They don't have a one - and - done relationship with their host, but instead hang on for long periods — days or even weeks, depending on the species — and feed multiple times.

«We learned that the mutualism involves a third player: a species of scale insect that feeds on the tree sap and produces an excrement called honeydew, on which the ants also feed, and makes the ants a stronger mutualist.»

Laska's team found that when the compound was smeared on wood, Siberian tigers and three species of wild dog at the nearby Kolmården Wildlife Park found it just as attractive as the meat they are usually fed with.

Although many dinoflagellates can survive through photosynthesis alone, some species are able to grow twice as fast by preying on other algae — and it is this feeding mechanism that is now thought to be aided by the production of toxins.

The scientists analyzed 15 predatory bird species living within the geographic ranges of periodical cicadas that could potentially feed on the insects, including red headed woodpeckers, blue jays and gray catbirds.

Insects such as maggots and mealworms could provide much of the protein animals need at a much lower environmental cost; many insect species can feed on organic waste.

Sea otters off the Alaskan coast play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems: By dining on sea urchins, the animals help preserve kelp forests that feed a range of species, from barnacles to bald eagles.

To better understand the potential role of acoustic signals in butterfly larvae integration and adoption by ant colonies, scientists compared two populations of parasitic butterflies: a predatory species that feeds on ant broods, and a cuckoo species that is fed directly by the worker ants.

In fact, in order for a carnivore to have shown similar values it would have needed to prey almost entirely on species that fed on a type of plant that did not evolve until approximately 14 million years after the sampled individuals lived.

Quagga and zebra mussels shun toxin - producing Microcystis cyanobacteria and feed instead on other species of phytoplankton at the base of the lake's food chain, including algae.

He thinks it's possible that even bottlenose dolphins, the most well - known of dolphin species, have electroreception because of the pits on their beaks and propensity for bottom feeding — sometimes even with sponges on their noses.

The results of two new studies indicate that Argentine ants have displaced a number of the native ant species that the lizards feed on, and eating the intruders instead, it seems, is not an option.

«We decided to focus on leaf miners because they are typically host specific, feeding on only a few plant species each,» said Donovan.

In the northeastern U.S., a species of fly has evolved to feed on a species of honeysuckle introduced to North America less than 250 years ago.

Some of the microbes seem to lack a metabolism, so can not feed themselves and may be reliant on other species for survival.