Sentences with phrase «study of the lions»

We are also growing the project in its existing areas and will expand our intensive biological study of the lions so that our policy and conservation advice can be more evidence - based.

A new study of lions in African reserves suggests that most populations should be protected with fences, a strategy that can be expensive in the short - term and is at odds with some conservationists» vision of wildlife.

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This was an excellent social opportunity and I met the lion's share of great friends, found some great study partners including an honorable mention for a graduate student and Mensa member that taught me some great study habits.

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When you see those cupcakes at the bakery section of Wal Mart or Food Lion, and look at the vibrant colors in the frosting, many have more than 300 mg of food dye in them, and the typical amount in the studies was 27 mg.

Probing mysteries of soot and clouds A study released in May by the Arctic Council suggests that, while countries below 40 degrees north latitude collectively contribute the lion's share of the world's black carbon output, Nordic countries» soot is the most damaging, because it has the shortest distance to travel to the Arctic.

Study co-author Dr Carolina Loch says this was the first time the enamel ultrastructure of fur seals and sea lions, as well as the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos, was studied using scanning electron microscopy.

At a scientific level, Cecil's death — to put it coldly — is another data point for us in studying the consequences of adult male pride lions dying, which can include social turbulence and infanticide.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

Costa's lab has carried out groundbreaking tracking studies of a wide range of species around the world, including albatrosses, sooty shearwaters, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, crabeater seals, Weddell seals, and southern elephant seals.

Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator — prey relationships at the University of California, Davis, studied the behavior of 185 people who were attacked by mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) between 1890 and 2000 in the U.S. and Canada.

Not necessarily, says a new study, which warns that standing still may up one's risk of becoming mountain lion chow.

Showy ornaments used by the male of the species in competition for mates, such as the long tail of a peacock or shaggy mane of a lion, could indicate a species» risk of decline in a changing climate, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

The study found that less than one third of the 175 parks and reserves examined are currently conserving lions at more than 50 % of their «carrying capacity» — an ecological term for the natural population levels animals reach if human threats are minimal.

Published in Biological Conservation, the study shows that populations of the African lion and its prey species are drastically below their natural potential inside most of Africa's protected areas (PA).

One of Africa's last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions, a University of Queensland - led study has found.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

You studied lions in the Serengeti 35 years ago and the descendants of those same animals have been studied continuously in all the time since then by your research descendants.

The scientists did not study how changes in fish species affect the composition and quality of milk that mother sea lions feed their pups, which affects the growth of the pups.

A new study found the first indirect evidence that this cold - blooded shark that can grow to a length of more than 20 feet — longer than a great white shark — may be an opportunistic predator of juvenile Steller sea lions.

Other studies have found remains of Steller sea lions and other marine mammals in the stomachs of sleeper sharks, but those could have been the result of scavenging instead of predation, Horning pointed out.

It's rather like studying lion behavior in a zoo rather than in its natural habitat,» said Steve Diggle, an associate professor of life sciences at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Tom Doyle, lead author of the study and Lecturer in Zoology from the School of Natural Sciences at NUI Galway, said: «What most people don't understand is that these jellyfish — the lions mane, the Portuguese man o war and a box jellyfish, are as different from each other as a dog and a snake.

Authored by Samuel Alizon, Sébastien Lion, Carmen Lía Murall and Jessica Abbate, this article studies the use of phylodynamics to discover how the Ebola virus has spread throughout the West African country of Sierra - Leone.

The difference could be critical for the future of lions; the study found that almost half of unfenced lion populations may sink to less than 10 % of their potential size over the next 2 to 4 decades.

The study also finds that half of unfenced populations of lions are likely to dwindle in the next few decades.

The new APOE study will use up the lion's share of the $ 45 million that Francis Collins, director of NIH, has set aside for Alzheimer's research in fiscal year 2013.

In this study, researchers analyzed hunting behaviors of mountain lions on the fringes of Denver and Boulder, Colorado, through the sprawling exurbia, and into the jagged wilderness areas along the Continental Divide.

The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.

The sea lions switched to leaner market squid, shortbelly rockfish and other less - common prey such as mackerel and hake, according to new studies of their scat.

Mountain lions hunt their mule deer prey closer to human settlements around Los Angeles than locations randomly distributed across their home ranges, according to a study published July 13, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by John Benson from the University of California, Los Angeles, US, and colleagues.

A notorious pair of man - eating lions that teamed up to terrorize Kenyan labour camps more than 100 years ago did not have the same taste for human flesh, a new study suggests.

In the 1750s John Hunter, the Scottish «father of surgery,» did extensive studies on animal dentition, reproduction, and circulation by dissecting the bodies of tigers, lions, and rhinoceroses procured from the Tower's collection.

While the study was limited to 26 lions in a single geographical area, the study area was unique among mountain lion studies in that the authors were able to track mountain lions along a gradient of human presence that included relatively remote areas of the Santa Monica Mountains and also areas within the second largest metropolitan area of the United States.

«In this study, we were interested in comparing different species of carnivorans to see how the numbers of neurons in their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brains.

The authors of the present study used field observations and GPS radio collars to track 26 mountain lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

The biggest threat to Southern California mountain lions is us, confirms a comprehensive 13 - year study of the population's mortality and survival from the University of California, Davis.

Patterson has studied lions in the woodlands of Tsavo in Kenya, and agrees that dense vegetation makes it harder for males to steal food.

«Upfront surgery aiming at macroscopic complete resection is the goal in patients with primary advanced ovarian cancer,» said Philipp Harter, MD, PhD, of the Kliniken Essen - Mitte in Germany, during his presentation of the LION study (abstract 5500) at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

In 2016, scientists published the results of a study that simulated how zebras appear to lions and spotted hyenas in different lighting conditions and from different distances.

Brandon completed graduate studies at UCSC in 2002 on hearing and the effects of noise on seals and sea lions.

Kastak et al (2007 JASA)-- Aerial TTS Study Onset, growth, and recovery of in - air temporary threshold shift (TTS) in a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).

Could be studying, reading, practicing, getting a coaching session, learning how to tame lions, tigers, and / or bears — whatever is part of your purpose!

Certain types of mushrooms like Lion's Mane, Chaga, Cordyceps and others are well - studied for their brain benefits.

About a dozen studies have been published on the neuroregenerative properties of lion's mane so far.