While most species of Daphnia, including D. pulex, are herbivorous or detritivorous, a few are carnivorous and prey on other water fleas. |
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Kong saves her many times from the carnivorous dinosaurs and she repays him with her trust. |
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The largest are the carnivorous polar bear, and arctic wolf and the herbivourous barren-land caribou and muskox. |
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The caterpillar is taken inside the ant nest where it promptly turns carnivorous and starts devouring its hosts' eggs and young. |
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The video takes place in a desolate apocalyptic hellscape where carnivorous zombie toddlers rule all that they see. |
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In this classification scheme, carnosaurs represent the largest carnivorous animals to ever walk the land. |
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And for further simplification, the system in this study also does not include carnivorous and parasitic plants. |
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Because the soil is acidic and infertile, some plants are carnivorous, supplementing their diets by trapping small insects. |
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According to the fact file, the Tasmanian Tiger is the largest known carnivorous marsupial. |
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The toughness of the foliage and the plethora of carnivorous plants are further evidence of a scarcity of nutrients. |
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As it turned out, it was a pretty cool garden centre, full of carnivorous plants and little neon blue fish. |
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The Venus fly trap is an endemic carnivorous plant growing on sandy soils in the central south-eastern coastal plain of North America. |
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Such analyses have shown that some features considered to be typically avian, such as the furcula, first appeared in carnivorous dinosaurs. |
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For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
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Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles. |
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Due to their relative intolerance of carbohydrate, diets for carnivorous fish like rainbow trout consist primarily of proteins and lipids. |
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I hope to have photos and an entry about my new carnivorous flora soon, as they are wicked cool. |
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Far from alleviating the problem, the farming of carnivorous fish, such as salmon, adds to the pressure on wild fish populations. |
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Filmed in Japan, this tells the story of mad scientist Dr. Bragan who develops a giant carnivorous plant that walks like a man. |
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Are the vegetarian pacu's teeth different from the carnivorous piranha's teeth? |
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There was also a monkey family, complete with baby, and a tropical house with birds and carnivorous plants. |
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If a pack of carnivorous mammals were to chase a lone prey animal into the tar pits, both predators and prey would become trapped. |
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Omnivorous, carnivorous, vegan, lacto-ovo and fruitarian are the main diet types based on eating style. |
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Dark algal mats and waterlogged mosses on a layer of peat are spotted with carnivorous, quarter-sized sundews, red as rust. |
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Purportedly the world's largest collection of carnivorous plants, is open to the public. |
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The curvy, apple-cheeked siren is more than happy to let a new generation of carnivorous Chinese reporters get their nibbles. |
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For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big. |
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Theropoda is the second saurischian group, consisting of the carnivorous dinosaurs. |
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They are carnivorous, scavenging among carrion or preying on other molluscs. |
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In the majority of cases, the terrestrial hosts are carnivorous animals such as carabid beetles, praying mantids or crickets. |
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One of the most common pairings for a terrarium are carnivorous plants and orchids. |
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Most ducks are omnivorous, but some are primarily herbivores and others are mostly carnivorous. |
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Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods. |
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However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst. |
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Also, the animal's teeth lack small serrations that appear on many of the meat-shearing, daggerlike teeth of this dinosaur's carnivorous cousins. |
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Its teeth lacked the usual serrations along the edges found in other two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs. |
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Bladderworts, pitcher plants, and sundews all indulge their carnivorous tastes. |
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Creodonts are an extinct group of carnivorous mammals that were long thought to be the ancestors of modern Carnivora. |
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These fish are carnivorous and eat a variety of small animals including insects, crustaceans, and worms. |
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Birds evolved from reptiles, probably small carnivorous dinosaurs, around 150 million years ago. |
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Tyrannosaurs grew out of a group of lightweight, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs that also gave rise to birds. |
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Theropods are the line of mainly carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs from which birds evolved. |
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Virtually none of the small carnivorous mammals of Southeast Asia have crossed it from west to east on their own. |
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The devil's coach-horse is a carnivorous insect, feeding on other insects and small creatures. |
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The primary reason for this is that a carnivorous hemipteran lives obligately in very close association with Roridula. |
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Some carnivorous dinosaurs routinely fed on their own species, according to an analysis of scarred fossils. |
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The Brush-tailed Phascogale, also known as the Tuan, is a small, nocturnal, arboreal, carnivorous marsupial. |
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Unlike most starfish which are actively carnivorous, it is thought to be a plankton feeder. |
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Fledglings frequently ride atop their parents to avoid the jaws of snapping turtles and carnivorous fish. |
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All cephalopods are carnivorous, feeding primarily on fish, other mollusks, Crustacea, and worms. |
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At times they eat arthropods, seeds, and grain, but they are more carnivorous than crows. |
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African viverrids tend to be carnivorous, but the civets common to China prefer to dine on fruit, especially spiky, foul-smelling durians. |
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Skylarks sang over the wetlands, carnivorous butterworts were in violet flower and cotton grass fluffed up the land. |
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Commonly called the butterworts, these plants are just about the most innocuous-looking carnivorous plants you'll ever see. |
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In a particularly carnivorous touch, they put the bone on top of the sandwich, which means you can gnaw the rest of the meat off it. |
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The carcajou is a carnivorous animal, which inhabits the coldest parts of North-America. |
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After about two weeks the eggs hatch, and minute, carnivorous larvae emerge. |
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Throughout Africa and southern Asia monitors coexist successfully with a wide range of carnivorous mammals. |
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Most of these turtles are carnivorous, feeding on mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic insects, fish, and amphibians. |
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Like herbivorous cattle fed meat, carnivorous fish are now largely vegetarians. |
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It is the largest carnivorous mammal ever to have lived in Australia and the largest known marsupial carnivore in the world. |
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These colorful, carnivorous amphibians feed heavily on both terrestrial and aquatic insects, small invertebrates, and their eggs and larvae. |
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Some molluscs are carnivorous, and are secondary consumers in their aquatic ecosystems. |
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Yellow and Silver eels are primarily nocturnal carnivorous feeders, consuming insects, crustaceans, clams, worms, fish and frogs. |
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For example, Heinrich's work with ravens shows that the carnivorous birds will store bits of meat only for the short term. |
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Several bones of carnivorous dinosaurs with tooth marks on them from other meat-eating dinosaurs have been found in Alberta, Canada. |
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The giant clam is not anthropophagous, nor indeed carnivorous. |
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A quirky gift for a young gardener might be a carnivorous plant. |
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The best known of all carnivorous plants, the Venus Fly Trap is native to America but these days can be purchased in most nurseries all over the world. |
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See how Psy, Lady Gaga, and a carnivorous toddler stack up on the most-watched list. |
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Both species exhibit low proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids and high proportions of oleic and stearic acids characteristic of carnivorous and insectivorous species. |
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The Yellowstone grizzly is one of the more carnivorous interior bear populations in North America. |
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It turned out to be a carnivorous fungus called a slime mould. |
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There's a botanical garden with carnivorous plants on display. |
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Researchers have unearthed fossil evidence of a new species of ancient crocodile that had a head like a carnivorous dinosaur and a tail like a fish. |
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The human barrier of overturned cars and debris was swarming with carnivorous automatons. |
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I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge. |
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Sometimes these vegetable bugs are confused with other shield bugs which are carnivorous and can be quite beneficial in the garden, preying on other pests. |
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This delicious vegetarian-friendly dish will satisfy even the most carnivorous of crews. |
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The Harpa mollusc shares much in common with volutes and olives. All three families make up the Volutacea superfamily, all of which are active, carnivorous sand burrowers. |
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Puppies between the ages of three and six months are most susceptible to the disease, although older dogs and other carnivorous mammals can also contract distemper. |
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Biarmosuchians are a group of small-to-medium sized carnivorous therapsids known exclusively from Middle to Upper Permian strata in South Africa and Russia. |
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Consequently most chilopods are carnivorous, searching for earthworms, enchytraeids, and insects. |
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Bracketed by two roiling group passages, smaller dances slink by, marked by much creaturely creeping and carnivorous eroticism. |
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It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain. |
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These support an exceptionally large number of plant species, including many species of orchids and carnivorous plants. |
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Pratchett had a fascination with natural history that he referred to many times, and he owned a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants. |
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The reason for the carnivorous behaviour is thought to be a need for extra calcium. |
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In general however, carnivorous birds avoid merlins due to their aggressiveness and agility. |
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Responses to low concentrations of food extract have been best documented in the carnivorous notaspidean Pleurobranchaea californica. |
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Such habitats also have many species of wild orchids and carnivorous plants. |
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Newly emerged hatchlings are carnivorous, pelagic organisms, part of the open ocean mininekton. |
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Tylosaurus was a large mosasaur, carnivorous marine reptiles that emerged in the late Cretaceous. |
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At the end of the Cretaceous there seem to have been no purely herbivorous or carnivorous mammals. |
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Though carnivorous, they house gut flora similar to that of terrestrial herbivores, probably a remnant of their herbivorous ancestry. |
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Sebecosuchians, terror birds, and carnivorous metatheres, like the borhyaenids remained the dominant predators. |
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It is, however, not as adapted for a purely carnivorous diet as the Tibetan fox. |
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The common shrew's carnivorous and insectivorous diet consists of insects, slugs, spiders, worms, amphibians and small rodents. |
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There are, however, some reports of deer engaging in carnivorous activity, such as depredating the nests of Northern bobwhites. |
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All owls are carnivorous birds of prey and live mainly on a diet of insects and small rodents such as mice, rats, and hares. |
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Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. |
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They are carnivorous and, because they feed on slugs and worms, they can often be found in long grass and other damp environments. |
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Several small freshwater species are carnivorous, eating small fish and a wide range of aquatic life. |
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However, protein is essential to turtle growth and juvenile turtles are purely carnivorous. |
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Other large carnivorous theropods included Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. |
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Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. |
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Among the natives in the river is the huge, highly carnivorous giant tigerfish. |
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Horse meat has been used as food for humans and carnivorous animals throughout the ages. |
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Drosera, commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. |
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The flowers of sundews, as with nearly all carnivorous plants, are held far above the leaves by a long stem. |
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Like all members of the family Lentibulariaceae, butterworts are carnivorous. |
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Butterworts need habitats that are almost constantly moist or wet, at least during their carnivorous growth stage. |
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This plant is usually encountered as a liana, but in its juvenile phase, the plant is carnivorous. |
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Despite this, are cases where plants appear carnivorous, in that they fulfill some of the above definition, but are not truly carnivorous. |
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The evolution of carnivorous plants is obscured by the paucity of their fossil record. |
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Due to the large amount of energy and resources allocated to carnivorous adaptations. |
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In carnivorous plants, the leaf is not just used to photosynthesise, but also as a trap. |
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Being carnivorous allows the plant to grow better when the soil contains little nitrate or phosphate. |
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It is intuitively clear that the Venus flytrap is more carnivorous than Triphyophyllum peltatum. |
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The more carnivorous a plant is, the less conventional its habitat is likely to be. |
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Bromeliads seem very well preadapted to carnivory, but only one or two species can be classified as truly carnivorous. |
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In this sense, bromeliads are probably carnivorous, but their habitats are too dark for more extreme, recognisable carnivory to evolve. |
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Many carnivorous plants are not strongly competitive and rely on circumstances to suppress dominating vegetation. |
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Another important area of symbiosis between carnivorous plants and insects is pollination. |
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California Carnivores is a notable example of such a nursery that specializes in the cultivation of carnivorous plants. |
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Although different species of carnivorous plants have different cultivation requirements in terms of sunlight, humidity, soil moisture, etc. |
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A carnivorous plant that catches no insects at all will rarely die, although its growth may be impaired. |
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Ironically, carnivorous plants are themselves susceptible to infestation by parasites such as aphids or mealybugs. |
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Diazinon is an excellent systemic insecticide that is tolerated by most carnivorous plants. |
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The easiest carnivorous plants for beginners are those from the cool temperate zone. |
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Peat moss, dead or alive, is also a very important soil and topper for most carnivorous plants. |
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For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include honey badgers, bamboo-eating pandas, and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
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Notes on tabanid flies and other victims caught by the carnivorous plant, Sarracenia flava. |
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Ellison at the Harvard Forest studying the carnivorous plant, Sarracenia purpurea, the northern pitcher plant. |
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The clues lie in the genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba. |
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The clue is in the carnivorous bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba's genome. |
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In a faraway forest in a faraway land live Meathook and his band of carnivorous dragons, who love feasting on tasty knights and princesses. |
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Commandeer gun turrets, master death-defying flying escapes, and battle carnivorous beasts. |
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Science fiction fantasy elements emerged as the duo tackled killer Cybernaut robots and giant alien carnivorous plants. |
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By what name is the carnivorous marsupial the ursine dasyure better known as? |
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It's supposed to ooze, deliquesce, attract carnivorous insects, and unto dust return. |
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Apparently eurypterids were so common and carnivorous that in order for fish to survive among them, they had to have a bony suit of scaled armor. |
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Down in the galleries, giant jumbo screens offer a fractal imagery of a chase scene involving herds of pachyrhinosaurus, hadrosaurs and the carnivorous gorgosaur. |
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A 2009 study in the journal Science suggested that it was males of the small, carnivorous dinosaurs Troodon and Oviraptor that incubated their eggs. |
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For instance, about 30 species of the true-bug genus Setocoris from Australia spend their entire lives on carnivorous sundew plants, which trap and eat insects. |
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Out along the boardwalk is the best to spot the carnivorous sundew, a tiny plant akin to the Venus fly trap whose stalks are tipped with a sticky glue. |
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As part of her STEM I research project during her junior year, Melody studied development in a common carnivorous plant, the bog-dwelling Cape sundew. |
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Now the rarely seen bladderwort is thriving in areas where reeds and rushes have been cut back, allowing light to get to these strange carnivorous plants. |
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Scientists infer that it was a small, bipedal herbivore that would have foraged for its food and stayed out of the way of larger, carnivorous predators. |
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They include everything from the very small delicate mouse to large tree rat, various common field mice and even the infamous the carnivorous water rat. |
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These peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and carnivorous plants. |
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Most carnivorous plants require bright light, and most will look better under such conditions, as this encourages them to synthesise red and purple anthocyanin pigments. |
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Hence, a carnivorous plant will have both decreased photosynthesis and increased respiration, making the potential for growth small and the cost of carnivory high. |
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For carnivory, the trait could only evolve if the increase in nutrients from prey capture exceeded the cost of investment in carnivorous adaptations. |
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However, these plants have not been shown conclusively to be carnivorous. |
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However, plants that may opportunistically utilize nutrients from dead animals without specifically seeking and capturing fauna are excluded from the carnivorous definition. |
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To be defined as carnivorous, a plant must first exhibit an adaptation of some trait specifically for the attraction, capture, or digestion of prey. |
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Because these families do not share a common ancestor who also had pitfall trap morphology, carnivorous pitchers are an example of convergent evolution. |
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Five basic trapping mechanisms are found in carnivorous plants. |
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Butterworts are widely cultivated by carnivorous plant enthusiasts. |
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Recently, a new distinction has been made between the classical carnivorous plants, terrestrial or aquatic, and the newly discovered protocarnivorous plants. |
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The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936, and is now found in the wild only in Tasmania. |
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The 42 teeth of a polar bear reflect its highly carnivorous diet. |
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Other carnivorous dinosaurs with documented evidence of infection include Acrocanthosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and a tyrannosaur from the Kirtland Formation. |
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The interpretation of dinosaurs as gregarious has also extended to depicting carnivorous theropods as pack hunters working together to bring down large prey. |
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Most passerines are omnivorous, while the shrikes are carnivorous. |
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The dentitions of lizards reflect their wide range of diets, including carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous, herbivorous, nectivorous, and molluscivorous. |
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All snakes are strictly carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards, frogs, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails or insects. |
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Smaller carnivorous animals are dominated by brown bears and generally avoid direct interactions with them, unless attempting to steal scraps of food. |
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Yell has many of the usual plants found in northern European moorland, especially heather in abundance, including two carnivorous plants, the butterwort and the sundew. |
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Juveniles are carnivorous, but as they mature they become omnivorous. |
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Medusae are carnivorous, feeding on plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, small fish and other jellyfish, ingesting and voiding through the same hole in the middle of the bell. |
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