Sentences with phrase «than bird flocks»

Reynolds and colleagues chose to focus on insect swarms, rather than bird flocks or fish shoals, because interactions between neighbouring individuals appear not to play a key role.

Not exact matches

The kind of people who swear that what the saw in the sky was an alien UFO, rather than something more realistic (flock of birds, planes, helicopters, falling star, kites, etc..)

First, the chickens in backyard flocks live longer than commercial birds, and during their lives they are exposed to more wild birds and rodents (commercial poultry farms have strict biosecurity aimed at excluding «visitors»).

On average they made 6.6 more pecks per minute than birds at the centre of the flock.

Blood tissue from «Sally», a female bird of Sal's charismatic flock has provided more than enough DNA to test new ways of preparing DNA for genome sequencing.

They say birds of a feather flock together, and who knows you better than your trusted friends?

The entire incident, from the time the plane took off, struck a flock of birds and splashed down in the river, happened in less than four minutes.

When keeping more than two finches, the birds should be housed in a very large flight cage with three pairs or more to prevent any bird from becoming the lowest ranked and thus picked on by the others in the flock.

Her passing marked the end of a species that once was so ubiquitous that enormous flocks, one estimated at more than 3 billion birds, were said to have...

More than 900 companies flock to Global to showcase their wares for every type of animal, from cats and dogs to small pets to birds, reptiles, and horses.

Dolphins and more than 100 bird species also overwinter, including flocks of white pelicans.

Scuba divers and bird watchers flock to Belize because there are few places in the world that offer more diversity of species to observer than Belize.

And aside from them, there were only two other forms of antagonist: overactive inanimate objects trying to give you a flying bearhug, and flocks of temperamental birds that were more annoying than frightening.

It's almost like we — the twenty - and early thirty - somethings — are coming of age at some weird potluck of every social issue staring us in the face: food insecurity, epic natural disasters, stock market crashes, three wars, droughts worse than the Dust Bowl, banks getting away with robbery, extreme poverty, corporate - purchased elections, rising childhood obesity, rising deficit, salmon run extinctions, flocks of birds dropping out of the sky, college debt surpassing credit card debt, you name it.

The much greater danger is the wholesale spread of the virus between large flocks of birds, especially birds that come into frequent contact with humans — and that is taking place in more countries now than ever before.