Sentences with word «subadult»

But if he mates with a younger subadult female, she'll let him live to see another day, Daily Mail reports.

Age was the second most frequently identified risk factor, with juvenile eagles electrocuted at approximately twice the rate of subadults or adults.

Young subadult bears, like bear 500, that's who.

On site, the Center's rescue crew assembled alongside volunteers from Point Reyes and were able to sedate the large subadult male seal (estimated to be between 700 - 1,000 lb.)

Bears that successfully killed and ate adult or subadult ringed seals either gained or maintained body mass, whereas bears that only scavenged or showed no evidence of eating lost mass.»

Researchers noted that females with young cubs tended to swim less to avoid submersion of youngsters in cold waters, while lone subadults swam as frequently as lone adults.

Dispersers subadult pythons that explore and sometimes inhabit new territory.

For occasional adult, or regular subadult, usage, the C32's rear seat is fine, and the car's compact size makes it maneuverable and easy to park.

In otariid species like the South American and Australian sea lions, non-territorial subadults form «gangs» and cause chaos within the breeding rookeries to increase their chances of mating with females.

In a large sample that also included subadults, Goldberg et al. (2000) reported mean sizes of 40.2 mm SVL for males and 40.5 mm SVL for females (n = 78, 96, respectively).

435 Holly's adopted yearling chased subadult bear 500 while Holly's spring cub and Holly herself tried to keep up.

Fall Hall - Out September — November: Young - of - the - year, juveniles, and subadults too young to take part in the breeding season haul - out to rest.

In all, ten elephant seal weaners and one subadult California sea lion (nicknamed Farewell) were the stars as they all lumbered off of our trucks and headed for the cool ocean water.

Incursion of Leptospira interrogans, serovar pomona into the Pacific Northwest by migratory subadult and adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

That would explain why Dollar, who has caught only adult and subadult female fossa, has never seen the trait.

[22] The high predation pressure has clear impacts on the demography and life history of crabeater seals, and has likely had an important role in shaping social behaviors, including aggregation of subadults.

In subadults and adults, the picture is reversed — high - ranking females exhibit a higher infection probability than low - ranking females whereas mortality was similar for both groups.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

It was covered with mesh, lest the subadult silver carp jump out.

What's more, half the fish chosen for implants are «subadults» whose changing behavior patterns can be followed over several seasons as the fish mature, mate, and reproduce.

Most impressive of all is a T. rex growth series, the world's only array of dinosaur specimens showing the same species at different stages of life; it includes the youngest T. rex ever found, a rare juvenile, and a subadult named Thomas.

The longest recorded swim in the study was by a subadult female that traveled over 249 miles (400 kilometers) in nine days.

Because more than 63 % of the collisions involved calves and subadults, the scientists conclude that these younger animals are particularly susceptible to being struck, most likely because they spend more time at the surface to breathe than do adults.

Every seven weeks, on average, comprehensive capture events are conducted in which all pups are handled, and all subadults and adults are captured and inspected in jars [11].

In contrast to the subadult I encountered, other bears at Brooks Camp, like 410, appear to be very tolerant of people and are often described as human - habituated.

A subadult bear approached the platform, but when it saw me, it stopped, turned, and walked through the marsh behind the platform.

Scientists from the Marine Mammal Center described it as a subadult female.

Also, as warming temperatures limit seal hunting opportunities on the ice, adult male polar bears will likely fare the best, securing the best sites from smaller bears (females, subadults).

2007 doi: 10.2193 / 2006 - 180 Effects of Earlier Sea Ice Breakup on Survival and Population Size of Polar Bears in Western Hudson Bay ERIC V. REGEHRa, 1, NICHOLAS J. LUNNb, STEVEN C. AMSTRUPc, and IAN STIRLINGd «Survival of juvenile, subadult, and senescent - adult polar bears was correlated with spring sea ice breakup date, which was variable among years and occurred approximately 3 weeks earlier in 2004 than in 1984.

Of green turtles from warmer northern nesting beaches, 99.1 % of juveniles, 99.8 % of subadults, and 86.8 % of adults were female.

Heavy ice conditions in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s caused significant declines in productivity of ringed seals, each of which lasted about 3 years and caused similar declines in the natality of polar bears and survival of subadults, after which reproductive success and survival of both species increased again.

A minimum of 2,000 adult / subadult and tens of thousands of Laysan Albatross chicks were lost.