Sentences with phrase «terrestrial animals as»

«As humans, we've utilized terrestrial animals as food, but also to pull carts and plow fields.

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Finally, the most absurd feature of your scenario is the idea that any extraterrestrial creature would just happen to have, first, DNA as it's basic molecule of biological information storage, second, cellular machinery anywhere remotely similar to what animals on Earth have, and finally, would just happen to be close enough genetically to be able to mix their DNA with the DNA of any terrestrial being, and come out with a viable result.

The wildebeest migration is the largest terrestrial migration on the planet, and others of its kind have largely disappeared as humans have killed off animals or cut off their migration routes.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

Indeed, when it comes to walking, penguins expend twice as much energy as any other terrestrial animal of the same size.

«Terrestrial animals like antelopes and gazelles, elephants and rhinos and giraffes — all these bones show very similar fracture and breakage patterns as Lucy,» adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of ASU, co-discoverer of Lucy.

Furthermore, the motion of a bone in the fishes» throat, known as the hyoid, closely resembles that of other terrestrial animals, especially newts, which use true tongues to eat.

As compared with saltwater and terrestrial animals, freshwater species are particularly vulnerable because many depend on small, local water bodies.

«This is the only example in terrestrial vertebrates where... animals act as if they are aware of when they are toxic and when they are not,» says Burghardt.

As no other taxonomic group contains terrestrial animals in the size classes of the large modern mammals, the functional loss of large mammals can rarely be compensated, leading to permanent ecosystem changes [49].

Laura began her professional animal training career in 1991 at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and in 2000 moved from marine to terrestrial animals, working for the San Diego Zoo as a lead keeper and then Brookfield Zoo as a supervisory lead keeper.

Terrestrial Animal Health Code of World Organisation for Animal Health defines animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it Animal Health Code of World Organisation for Animal Health defines animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it Animal Health defines animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives.

I consider myself fortunate to have visited many special terrestrial and underwater settings as well as to have encountered a variety of threatened and endangered animal species in the ocean during the 25 years that I have been making images.

Its purpose is to provide global, collection - based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web - based software for statistical analysis of the data.

This includes aspects of the terrestrial biosphere: global food production, rice cultivation, and animal farming, as well as waste disposal.

In other words, if all of the terrestrial carbon today (in forests, animals, soils, etc.) were converted to carbon dioxide and returned to the global inorganic carbon pool, the change in the global carbon isotopic ratio would only be a third as big as that observed during the PETM!

Although rainforests presently cover only about 2 percent of Earth's land, they harbor about half of the planet's terrestrial species, 18 and the tropics as a whole contain about two - thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species (Pimm, 2001).