Sentences with phrase «zoologists studying»

«The behavior of stray dogs is like theater,» says Alexei Vereshchagin, one of several zoologists studying Moscow's strays.

The point is delightfully illustrated in Eddington's parable about the zoologist studying deep - sea life by means of a net of ropes on a two - inch mesh.

As a philosopher friend of mine once said, a zoologist studying tigers, while riding on the back of a tiger, should be very careful.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, both pharmacologists and zoologists study the effects of drugs on animals.

Not exact matches

It would be absurd for a zoologist to start reasoning a priori about theproperties of certain animals; a zoologist must go and observe the animals he is studying.

Zoologist Robert Hinde conducted several experiments with rhesus monkeys in which he studied their emotional and behavioural reactions to separation from their mothers, as well as their interactions with other monkeys.

«It's a neat study,» says zoologist David Bilton, who studies aquatic invertebrates at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.

«It is important and a valuable stepping stone in our quest to understand how intelligence evolved, but like all studies, it is one piece of a larger puzzle,» says Sarah Benson - Amram, a zoologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, whose recent comparative study of 39 species of carnivores reached the opposite conclusion.

«It's impressive enough that Vinther et al. managed to recreate the color pattern of a long - extinct dinosaur,» says zoologist Hannah Rowland of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.

Paolo Viscardi, a zoologist at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin who was not involved with the research, says the new study helps debunk Ata's origin myths.

The study is «ingenious» and reflects a positive trend toward studying how animals might think and not just what they do, says Alex Kacelnik, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

«All of our sampling sites were very close to neighborhoods with manicured lawns,» said Jason Belden, an Oklahoma State University zoologist and author of the study published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

In a study published in May, Duke University zoologist Thomas Struhsaker and his colleagues concluded that since 1975, packs of hungry chimpanzees have killed nearly 90 percent of the red colobus monkeys in a portion of the forested Ngogo region of Kibale National Park in Uganda.

To find a better solution, a team of zoologists and engineers studied video recordings of more than 300,000 hens living on free - range farms in the United Kingdom.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

Zoologist Ronald Chase of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who studies the use of «love darts» in hermaphroditic land snails (ScienceNOW, 6 July) and sees his share of bizarre mollusk mating, calls this version «very strange.»

And in 2005, Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at the National Science Museum in Japan, used a high - definition video system to study the elusive Taningia danae, a huge, eight - armed, bioluminescent squid that exceeds seven feet in length.

Louis Guillette, a zoologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been studying alligators in Florida for decades.

The study's lead authors, Timothy Higham at the University of California, Riverside, and Anthony Russell at the University of Calgary, Canada, both zoologists, brought Niklas into the project for his expertise on plant biomechanics.

A new study by the zoologists Martin Nyffeler (University of Basel), Mike Maxwell (National University, La Jolla, California), and James Van Remsen (Louisiana State University) now shows that praying mantises all over the world also kill and eat small birds.

Such studies could be critical, notes zoologist Eric Warrant of Lund University in Sweden.

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet.

Said Tim McClanahan, WCS Senior Conservation Zoologist and lead author of the study: «Northern Mozambique Quirimbas reefs have a variety of refugia, environmental variability, and high diversity that give these reefs a high potential to adapt to rapid climate change.

Animal Days (1979) traced Morris's life from childhood through the pivotal event of his life, the 1967 publication of The Naked Ape, the first widely read study of Homo sapiens from the viewpoint of a zoologist.

17 The Honeybee Boogie: In 1943 Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch published his study on the dances bees perform to alert fellow workers.

Testing a causal connection between flight ability and egg shape is tough «because of course we can't replay the whole tape of life again,» says Claire Spottiswoode, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge who wrote a commentary accompanying the study.

«I think it's the social behaviour that drives the dolphins» optimistic decisions,» says Isabella Clegg, a zoologist at the University of Paris - North, and lead author of the study.

Zoologist Gordon Rodda of the U.S. Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado, agrees, pointing out that the study is «one more line of evidence that habitat destruction interacts with the introduced species, and the combination is devastating.»

says Lucy King, a postgraduate zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the study's lead author.

Julia Parrish, a zoologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who did not work on the study, told Science News this is a case where a group of ants working together accomplishes more than you might expect by studying individuals.

Lyko's theory is reasonable, says Gerhard Scholtz, a zoologist at Humboldt University of Berlin who led the first study of marbled crayfish.

I first learned about the 12 Stages of Physical Intimacy from Linda Howard, who used to give a very popular talk on the subject based on the work of Desmond Morris, Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy.

Zoologists often study entire ecosystems, observing the interactions among multiple species and the effects that each has on the other.

The German zoologist Paul Leyhausen (1916 — 1998), who spent the bulk of his career studying the behavior of cats, found that cats, frustrated by the difficulties of catching them, «may soon give up hunting birds.»

A career as a zoologist can be very rewarding for those who like large cats, with the job entailing the study of interactions and habits of living animals.

Zoologists often study entire ecosystems and observe the effects that one species has on another.

«Reconciling agriculture and conservation is one of the century's greatest challenges,» says the study's lead author, Ben Phalan, a zoologist with the Cambridge University Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security.

Predictions that global warming would wipe out polar bears are based on «scientifically unsound» computer models, according to a new study by a veteran zoologist at the University of Victoria.

A zoologist by trade, Gazaryan was studying bats in the unique forests of Krasnodar region when he discovered that their numbers were falling due to habitat loss from development and government corruption:

However, veteran zoologist Susan Crockford dismissed the findings, writing on her blog that she had been left «speechless» by the «skewed data» used in the study.

The question baffled zoologists for decades, but now the first study to track the saltwater - loving reptiles on these long journeys has revealed that, in fact, the crocodiles don't swim much at all.

Susan is a professional zoologist who has studied the ecological history and evolution of many animals for more than 40 years, and has had a special interest in polar bears for at least half that time.

Ryan Anderson, BSc, BPsych, is a psychologist and zoologist currently undertaking doctoral studies at James Cook University examining mate choice.