Sentences with phrase «when predators»

«Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can't be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou population,» Palin fires back to Judd and her team of haters.

These studies suggest that ecosystems suffer when predators do not help control populations, and the consequences are vast.

If your rabbit currently lives outdoors, we strongly urge you to bring her in, at least during the night, when predators are most common.

That said, it is important to acknowledge that there are also welfare considerations in allowing cats outside, and we should do what we can to mitigate them (e.g., making sure a cat has identification tags and keeping the cat indoors overnight, when predators such as coyotes may be more active).

When predators approach the area, the guard dog will bark and stand between his livestock and the predator.

If your cats go outside, be sure to bring them inside at night when predators will be most actively hunting.

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Both the Major and Placidia's father knew she would soon be unprotected during a time when predators roamed the countryside.

When predators abound, it doesn't make much sense to invest energy in long - term survival.

This kept seaweeds at a minimum in those areas but allowed them to flourish on the very top of the reef, which was only accessible during high tide when predators patrolled the area.

«The conspicuous «prey» were 40 per cent more likely to survive when predators were socially informed,» says Thorogood.

Thanks to a 3D reconstruction created by slicing the rare fossil into 200 pieces and scanning them through a computer, scientists believe the 400 - million - year - old creature sported a leathery exterior and a protective hood, which it probably used to hide its tentacles when predators were nearby.

So whether it's the real world or the virtual one, it pays to stick together when predators pounce.

But when your predators hunt by sight, this can pose an interesting problem.

In nightjars, however, which conceal their eggs by remaining motionless over them when predators approached, it was the appearance of the adults that was most important for their survival: nightjars that matched the background pattern were more likely to save their eggs from being eaten.

Specifically, the researchers found that in some areas, the number of rodent - eating predators like foxes seemed to move inversely with the prevalence of Lyme disease; when those predators disappear, the disease may get a boost.

When predators try to eat them, the dinoflagellates flash, lighting up the water.

When predators attack, blennies on Pacific coral reefs bite back with a venom that makes the attackers so dizzy that they open their mouths to let the prey out

We've only just discovered that many stonefish can flip out a spiny bone in their faces when predators attack, in addition to having highly venomous spines

They ate pests and garbage and alerted the camp when predators lurked nearby.

When predators are taken out of an ecosystem, the prey species get messed up in many ways.

When a predator is found oiut to be from education or sports do these same people say we should close all schools or stop all sportsprograms.

A young kangaroo named Cuejoe was hopping around under the watchful eye of police officer Scott Mason when the predator struck.

When a predator is off in the distance, its prey — whether rat or human — powers up a forebrain network.

But when the predator was closing in, those brain regions shut down and a network of previously quiet regions farther back in the midbrain became active.

He found that when the predator was bearing down on players, they often experienced the same changes to their skin as those seen in people having panic attacks.

In parallel manner, the quantity of elk and moose are the limiting factor for the wolves: When the predator population runs low on food, in this case elk and moose, its population falls.

He has found that a nest's chance of survival depends on the predator's technique — broods are least likely to survive (10 %) when the predator manages to get into the cavity through the existing entrance, more likely (29 %) when the predator uses its paws or beak to pluck out the nest contents, and most likely to survive (39 %) when the predator tries to enlarge the opening or make a new one.

The fabulous blue morpho uses its iridescence to its advantage: When a predator approaches, the butterfly can flutter its wings rapidly to create flashes of light that may startle the hunter.

Research conducted by Dr Bill Dew at the University of Lethbridge in Canada looked for the first time at the effect of the metal contaminants nickel and copper on specific fish olfactory sensory neurons, and how these affect the fish's ability to detect and swim away from an odour released by other fish of the same species (conspecifics) when a predator attack takes place.

They allow the fish to jump out of the water when a predator threatens from below, and then to glide through the air for a short distance.

More generally, co-evolutionary cycles can arise when predator offense is costly and prey defense is effective against low offense predators.

When the predator population becomes too large, however, the prey population often plummets, leaving too little food for the predators, whose population also then crashes.

He also emitted alarm calls normally used when a predator is near.

But probably lots of characteristics might play a role... for example, any gene affecting where and when a predator is active (if it's best not to overlap too much with toads) might help the predator to survive.

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Problems often arise when a predator enters a suburban / urban area - people fear for themselves, their children, and their pets.

When the predator drops the rabbit, it will burst into action and try to escape.

When a predator threatens the nest or the chicks, parents will perform a broken wing display to distract them.

Ubisoft is bringing its first - ever crossover event to Ghost Recon Wildlands when the Predator event arrives later this month.

They did what songbirds do when a predator shows up; they «mob» the predator.

The gazelle's internal body structure and central nervous system do not need to be studied, known or modeled for the conclusion in (4) that «gazelles leap when a predator is near» to be valid.

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When nothing else was available, these top predators might have dipped into their own population to keep from going hungry.

This may seem like some useless information when an ocean's worth of water is pushing in on them from every side, but sharks use this ability to figure out where other fish, both predators and prey, are.

As a businessman, Pinault is known for his «predator» tactics, which include buying smaller firms for a fraction of the cost when the market crashes.

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

When the «victim» recognizes the complicity of giving one's power to the predator, the victimiztion stops.

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

Again, you immediately equate being gay with being a predator, when you have been shown repeatedly that it is not the case.

This type of allegation is common in spurious sex - abuse cases, in part because it solves a common problem: If the victim was never alone with the predator, when and where did the assault take place?