Sentences with phrase «whether animal populations»

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

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In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

Just by looking at the activation of these two neural populations, the scientists could reliably determine whether an animal was interacting with a male or a female.

This sensitivity is especially important for a variety of wildlife forensic applications: identifying («matching») individuals, assigning paternity, and determining whether an animal belongs to a protected population.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

FOCUS: Organizations that work to reduce the homeless pet population Visit website The Bissell Foundation focuses on helping animal organizations that work to reduce the animal population whether through adoption programs, foster care programs or spay and neuter.

With no system in place to humanely reduce their populations and few animal welfare organizations or shelters able to help and protect them, stray cats are basically on their own to either survive or die, whether from starvation, extreme temperatures, disease or abuse at that hands of humans.

Whether you like it or not, we are members of the animal kingdom and the laws that have governed animal population sizes for millions of years will ultimately govern us too.

What remains to be seen is whether IBAMA can live up to its word and put a stop to the killing of the endangered animals, and help the dolphin population recover.

As a result, the changing severity and intensity of wind and storms, as well as the changing habits and population sizes of animals all determine whether a plant will move an inch or a mile in a given season, regardless of temperature.