Sentences with phrase «with other carnivores»

Throwing has played a vital role in our evolutionary past, enabling us both to hunt prey and to compete with other carnivores to scavenge carcasses.

Not exact matches

I'm the vegetarian; the rest are carnivores, so its always a bit challenging to try to make some vegetarian options that will provide me with some protein and that the others will actually eat, too.

Strict human carnivores have to eat it raw or lightly cooked to get enough to prevent scurvy (not to mention whatever other issues come from being deficient)-- and even then many of them have had to admit defeat and start supplementing with Vitamin C because their teeth are loosening, amid other scurvy symptoms.

These are veggie burgers even carnivores will love, with two grilled portobello mushroom caps stacked on top of each other, sandwiching a surprise cheese filling.

Borneo harbours more endemic carnivores than any other island except Madagascar and about half of these carnivores are globally threatened with extinction.

With no large herbivores to eat, dire wolves, American lions and other carnivores would have starved as well.

Although there are seven other native carnivore species on the island, the fossa is largely credited with keeping lemur populations in check.

To that end, RCF operates a long - term study that examines how intertwined grizzly bears are with their chief food source, salmon, to ultimately inform ecosystem - based management of salmon such that the nutritional needs of grizzlies as well as other coastal large carnivores such as black bears are safeguarded.

These dino - pioneers, such as Herrerasaurus, were «fleet - footed carnivores,» Persons says, thanks in part to an evolutionary advance in hip joints: Unlike the sprawling, reptilian stance of other archosaurs, dinosaurs had an erect posture, with their legs under their bodies.

These answers tallied closely with the ranchers» answers to the RRT questions, with those who appeared to admit killing carnivores being more likely to have negative attitudes towards the animals and to believe that other ranchers were killing them.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

They searched in particular for genes under positive natural selection, and put those findings in context with what we know about cats relative to other carnivores.

Based on work with other mammals» brains, the team knew that there was a fairly predictable link between the size of a carnivore's cerebral cortex and how many neurons were in it.

Marine farming offers a partial solution but comes with its own barrel of worms: Farmed fish tend to be more prone to diseases which spread to wild stocks; virtually all farmed fish are carnivores and therefore need to be fed on other fish; and farming of some animals, such as shrimp, can lead to massive changes in nitrogen levels, damaging the surrounding ecology.

The chasing game, along with many other play behaviors like wrestling and nipping, are a reflection of the fact that ferrets are carnivores.

On the other hand, dogs are considered to be carnivores as well but lean more to the omnivorous side, which means that they need to be fed a diet with more fiber than carnivorous animals such as cats.

However in contrast to certain others carnivores, and not at all consistent with the cat being a strict carnivore, cats can efficiently digest cooked starch (Morris et al., 1977; Kienzle, 1993).

This afternoon, enjoy a lecture with a researcher from the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Cheetah Metapopulation Project, who will share information about their efforts to protect cheetahs and other carnivores.

With a few friends in tow (either two new AI compatriots or other human players via local co-op or online multiplayer), you'll track down packs of carnivores and truly enormous behemoths on land and sea, set traps and hound them down.

The team compared the giant panda's different areas of fur with the dark and light coloring of 195 other carnivore species and 39 bear subspecies.