By this convention, birds are considered Reptilia, just like bats are mammals and snails are mollusks. |
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Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals. |
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The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites. |
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The calcium concentration of the submaxillary glands of other mammals have not been compared using the same analytical procedures. |
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It provides the growing young with everything it wants, and only mammals produce milk. |
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Australia is the place where the trees don't shed their leaves, they shed their bark, and some mammals lay eggs. |
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These proteins are produced in the milk of many mammals to protect their young from infection until their immune systems develop. |
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There are also many instances of mammals becoming a dwarf or pygmy variety on islands. |
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Yet the Pleistocene was also characterized by the presence of distinctive large land mammals and birds. |
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Attempts to resolve the relationships of Xenarthra and Pholidota to other eutherian mammals have not yet been exhausted. |
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Small mammals such as bush rats and marsupial carnivores survived the fires by hiding under boulders and in damp rock crevasses. |
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It is thought losses reflect a period in early mammalian history in which mammals were active mainly at night. |
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So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens. |
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Civet cats are not true cats, but short-haired mammals with long bodies, short legs, and tails. |
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Other large mammals that have vanished are the leopard, the largest species of deer, the pig-tailed macaque, and the wild pig. |
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The sperm whale, or cachalot, is one of the cetaceans, a group of marine mammals whose ancestors were probably land animals. |
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Many types of large mammals disappear, including all the uintatheres and brontotheres and indricotheres. |
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Other mammals can hear frequencies that are inaudible to humans, both lower and higher. |
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The mammals swam in tight circles to create a defensive barrier as the great white lurked under the surface. |
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Lyssavirus is found naturally among chiropteran and carnivoran mammals and is spread by the exchange of body fluids. |
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Homeothermic mammals regulate their body temperatures, and hence their energy expenditure, to a relatively constant and fairly high rate. |
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Many larger mammals such as giraffes, striped hyenas, western kob, bushbuck and sitatunga are now considered extinct in the area around the lake. |
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Various other occurrences of calcareous nannoplankton, dinocysts and mammals help to correlate relevant units in the three NW European basins. |
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Until the late Pleistocene era 11,000 to 50,000 years ago, big, exotic mammals and flightless birds roamed the planet. |
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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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This bulky animal is one of the most dangerous mammals to be found anywhere. |
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Arctic waters are renowned for such marine mammals as bowhead and beluga whales and ringed, spotted and bearded seals. |
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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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After the end of the Cretaceous, the birds and mammals radiated strongly for about another 10-20 million years. |
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With a wingspan of three feet or more, flying foxes are the largest mammals capable of sustained flight. |
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Toward the end of the reign of dinosaurs, some animals, the future mammals and birds, evolved endothermy. |
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Reindeer moss and Iceland moss, both low, branching forms, provide food for large mammals and other animals in northern regions. |
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Beavers, procyons, musquashes, foxes and otters dwell in the reeds, while boars and 30 other species of mammals live on dry land. |
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Such kleptoparasitic behavior is particularly common in birds, but it also occurs in mammals and invertebrates. |
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The warm sea temperatures have led to dozens of sightings of marine mammals off the Irish coast in recent weeks. |
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The large mammals such as uintatheres, pantodonts, and tapiroids may have been stream-side or marsh dwellers. |
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When the dinosaurs ruled the world, the mammals hid in the shadows, daring to grow no bigger than shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night. |
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The stem cells for hematopoiesis in mammals are derived from mesoderm in the yolk sac blood islands and a region of the aorta. |
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The male feeds the female while she incubates, catching small mammals and birds and bringing them back to the nest. |
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Cats are the main reservoir of Bartonella infection in humans, although other mammals may be infected. |
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While most mammals and birds show signs of REM sleep, reptiles and other cold-blooded animals do not. |
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Our exobiologists expect any alien species we may encounter to be bipedal mammals that are approximately our size. |
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Also, there are large mammals which are endotherms, not inertial homeotherms. |
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She's the person who discovered mammals aren't the only ones with lateralised left and right sides of the brain. |
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Whilst sound carries better in water than in air, that hasn't stopped mammals from using sonar in the air too. |
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When traveling to a destination with large mammals you should learn about their behavior before going out in the field. |
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So these subtle communications play a substantial role in the same way as mammals display fear by sleeking their hair over their head. |
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But the society needs help to protect and conserve them along with numerous mammals that visit the area. |
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The area is home to orcas, dolphins, and a wealth of other marine mammals and birds. |
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Studies of genetic variation of morphological traits in natural populations of mammals are essential to understanding their evolution. |
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As well as cage and aviary birds the shop also sells small mammals and aquatics. |
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Placental and marsupial mammals are more closely related to one another than to the third living group of mammals, the monotremes. |
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Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish. |
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The lack of suitable nest sites has also resulted in increased predation by corvids and mammals on the eggs and chicks. |
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Bald eagles feed primarily on marine mammals and fish and would not be a threat to the foxes. |
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Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians because it developed independently in all three groups. |
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It has also been noted in the honey possum and some non-marsupial mammals such as bats and seals. |
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Wild dolphins off the west coast of Australia were the first marine mammals in which cultural learning was observed. |
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The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era. |
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Most mammals extend the care of their young until they are weaned and then drive them away. |
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The endangered orang-utans live wild only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and are the largest arboreal mammals on earth. |
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Little owls tend to feed on insects although they will take small birds and mammals when they are hungry. |
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Only three out of twenty-seven species of mammals in Kuwait are not endangered, and they are the house rat, brown rat, and house mouse. |
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Some mammals can distinguish between and respond to the alarm calls of other mammal and bird species. |
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Warthog, bushpig, baboon, velvet monkey and many small mammals are also in good numbers. |
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Their diet consists mainly of fish, but they also eat insects, frogs, and occasionally small mammals such as muskrats. |
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This was mainly due to mammals browsing only on the larger fruits from flowers that had been exposed to pollinators. |
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The duck-billed platypus, for instance, has features of both mammals and reptiles. |
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They are nocturnal hunters and feed mainly on small mammals like mice, rats, voles and shrews. |
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It's actually a little surprising that there aren't more venomous mammals running around. |
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In some ways, monotremes are very primitive for mammals because, like reptiles and birds, they lay eggs rather than having live birth. |
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The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws. |
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These mammals were collected through a variety of techniques, including snapback mousetraps, rat traps, and pitfalls. |
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Selenium is an essential dietary trace element required for mammals including humans to light against various diseases including cancer. |
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Rabies is endemic in the majority of warm-blooded mammals in Thailand, including rats and mice, cat's favourite prey. |
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The amount of contaminants in the meat of sea mammals is also low, but the level of contamination in the blubber of seals and whales is high. |
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Epigenetic regulation in aging mammals can be quantitatively measured using genes subject to X chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting. |
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Keeping a constant body temperature is the most serious challenge facing warm-blooded mammals in an aquatic environment. |
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Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins. |
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The process of pattern generation is completed in mammals during the embryonic stage. |
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The largely Southeast Asian disease is commonly found in birds but also occurs in mammals like pigs, cats, and humans. |
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Carbosulfan is extremely toxic to mammals and its toxicity is mediated through inhibition of acetylcholine esterase, a respiratory enzyme. |
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Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales. |
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They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks. |
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Still, bears are warm-blooded mammals and thus are more similar to humans than are cold-blooded reptiles like the alligators. |
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Having split apart, the continents eventually started to collide with each other, and their different groups of mammals started to mix. |
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For example, most buteos eat primarily small mammals and most accipiters prey on birds. |
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Despite their fearsome size, these magnificent birds survive mainly on carrion and hunting small mammals like mice. |
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He said that a recent opinion poll suggested that 80 per cent of the British public believe that hunting wild mammals with dogs is cruel. |
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American cutaneous leishmaniasis is transmitted by sandflies in rain forest areas mainly among mammals and occasionally humans. |
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Initial genetic studies have provided evidence that the marine mammals are most closely related to hippopotamuses. |
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The sweet nut within the acorns is coveted by songbirds, ground birds, small mammals like squirrels and chipmunks, and even deer. |
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Marine mammals and large flying birds are the animals most likely to be able to benefit from foraging over very large distances. |
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Both mammals and reptiles returning to the sea developed quite workable homocercal tails in very short order. |
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In Indian waters the marine mammals display spotted skin and grow smaller humps. |
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Today, many of these species are ecologically extinct from their former ranges and large mammals are absent from most coastal ecosystems. |
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These mammals are all characterized by an elongated body, a face with a pointed muzzle, short legs and, generally, a long, furry tail. |
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These basal forms evolved through the primitive pelycosaur stage, to the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, and finally the mammals themselves. |
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After bony fishes and mammals diverged about 400 MYA, class II genes increased enormously in the mammalian lineage. |
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When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby. |
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In proportion to body size, mammals have brains about ten times the size of reptilian brains. |
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Even unique mammals such as sousliks, saiga antelope, and Asiatic cheetah may survive in the remote reaches of these mountains and valleys. |
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In the summer, the wild mammals are joined by flocks of domestic sheep and goats left to graze in the meadows. |
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Most drumming mammals are rodents, but drumming has also been described in carnivores, deer, rabbits, elephant shrews and marsupials. |
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Worldwide, this zoonosis is primarily found in cattle, sheep, and goats, but many mammals and birds may also be infected. |
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The lake basin includes piles of skeletons of large mammals such as fallow deer, red deer, and aurochs, the ancestor of modern cattle. |
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There is a variety of small mammals with an occasional sighting of the strandwolf. |
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The depression is the scar marking the overlap of the jugal process of the zygomatic arch on to the maxilla, as in therian mammals generally. |
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The report says the amount of contaminants in land mammals such as musk ox and reindeer is still low. |
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This land bridge allowed primitive mammals to colonize South America from the North. |
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Several professional veterinarian and epidemiologist groups oppose translocating mammals because of the risk of disease transmission. |
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Over 3,000 reptiles, birds and mammals live in the park in their natural habitats. |
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In addition, researchers know that some monkeys, lemurs, and other mammals also eavesdrop on neighboring species. |
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Smaller prey such as beavers, rabbits, and other small mammals are usually hunted by lone wolves, and they are a substantial part of their diet. |
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Burrows are also often shared with other mammals such as rabbits, skunks and possums. |
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Grasslands replaced forests, so grazing mammals spread at the expense of browsers. |
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While studies have been done in mammals and other vertebrates less is known of invertebrates. |
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The boom and bust cycle of the populations of small mammals is a phenomenon of the taiga and tundra regions of the north. |
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Previous opinion held that the malleable behavior of mammals required the higher-order neocortex found in mammals. |
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The infamous killer whale has a reputation for attacking mammals such as sea-lions, smaller dolphins and, in packs, even other whales. |
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Except for two small species of bats, there are no native mammals here to prey on or compete with introduced animal pests. |
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Rodents and lagomorphs are prime examples of breeders among mammals and have enormous incisors for their body size. |
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The Sanderson collection contains such rare and scientifically interesting smaller mammals as otter shrews and solenodons. |
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According to this scenario, also like mammals and birds, they must have been endothermic, or nearly so. |
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In the animal kingdom there are many phyla, and the mammals come into a phylum called the chordates. |
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The eyes of the night monkey lack the reflective layer behind the retina that most nocturnal mammals have. |
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If it is dense enough, shrubbery can provide a home to ground-nesting birds such as doves and thrushes as well as small mammals like rabbits. |
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Blanco had successfully used a similar method to estimate the speed of 30 living mammals and the T-rex-like dinosaur Giganotosaurus. |
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In South Africa, where an antelope called the bluebuck went extinct 200 years ago, three other big mammals have been brought back from the brink. |
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In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns. |
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The placental mammals include such diverse forms as whales, bats, elephants, shrews, and armadillos. |
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Two of the most amazing mammals on Earth are the naked mole-rat and the platypus. |
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Their diet consists mostly of marine mammals such as the ringed seals, bearded seals and occasionally a walrus pup. |
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Leopards are not the only mammals in which daughters live close to their mothers. |
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The genomes of mammals include genes that have been duplicated throughout evolutionary history. |
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Small and furry, bats are the only mammals to have achieved powered flight. |
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There the articulated skeletons of many extinct mammals have been preserved in a bed of volcanic ash. |
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It certainly fits into my plans to really look at mammals to understand birds better. |
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By understanding how mammoths responded to their changing environment, experts hope to gain insight to why the giant mammals went extinct. |
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Dolphins are mammals and as such are warm-blooded and bear live young, which they suckle. |
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Organic livestock producers must not feed mammalian or poultry slaughter byproducts to mammals or poultry. |
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Animal pathologists found the mammals had suffered internal bleeding in the ears and the brain. |
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When they were toppled, the ecological slate was wiped clean and mammals rapidly diversified to refill it. |
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Yet the site is also home to rare mammals such as water voles and rare plants such as pepper saxifrage. |
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Actual juvenile mortality rates for large mammals are generally higher than indicated by life tables based on bone assemblages. |
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In the aridlands of North America, several isolating events are evident in the phylogeographic patterns of birds, mammals and herps. |
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Infrared sensing pits enable them to hunt at night, when warm-blooded mammals are easier to find. |
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The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies. |
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How does being warm-blooded help mammals to survive in both very cold and very hot places? |
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The most ferocious biters among mammals aren't lions, tigers, or wolves, but meat-eating marsupials, a new study says. |
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Killer whales also prey on mammals such as other cetaceans and pinnipeds, as well as on birds and large fish. |
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Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen. |
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Tooth replacement in marsupial mammals differs from the condition generally believed to characterize eutherian mammals. |
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Their prey consists mainly of birds and small mammals such as rats and agoutis. |
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Polar bears are closely related to bears like the grizzly, but are considered marine mammals since they have adopted a marine lifestyle. |
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In his classification of prototherian mammals Hopson queried the allocation of Haramiyidae to the Multituberculata. |
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Other mammals in the region include red foxes, Siberian weasels, red deer, and even reindeer. |
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The seminal plasma of mammals contains a group of acidic proteins that bind to the spermatozoa. |
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The testosterone response of male mammals given naloxone predicts whether or not they will be sexually active. |
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Watch for small mammals such as chickarees, marmots, and rock and golden-mantled ground squirrels. |
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It is midway between a field guide and an annotated account of birds and mammals of a non-biogeographical region. |
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Fishermen have kept records of catches over the years and many naturalists and field sports people recorded sightings of mammals like the otter. |
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Forest dwelling mammals include beech martens, wildcats, genets, badgers and wild boar, as well as a number of small insectivores. |
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The sequence from the early amniotes to the early mammals is the most fully documented of the major transitions in vertebrate evolution. |
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These sections regulate the taking and permitted killing of nongame mammals and depredatory animals. |
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There are 45 species of mammals such as brown bear, wolf, fox, badger, beech marten, vair, bobcat, and even a small number of leopards. |
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Land mammals whose bones were excavated at Ogoloma include goats, cows, royal antelope, leopards, dogs, elephants, cats, and waterbuck. |
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The mammals investigate remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants. |
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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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The bittern's diet includes fish, amphibians, insects, worms, small mammals and even young birds. |
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The island refuges of some species are also under threat from imported mammals such as rats and hedgehogs. |
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The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America. |
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The lack of snow means marine mammals such as seals and polar bears struggle to build dens, while many species of birds, fish and animals have disappeared. |
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Different lines of evidence indicate that endothermy as it is known from modern birds and mammals may not have been feasible for most, particularly larger, dinosaurs. |
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Seasonal mammals may be absent from the far north because of purely abiotic limitations or because of competitive exclusion by continuous species. |
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Gannon began to study how bottlenose dolphin diets differ in different habitats and found that the marine mammals gorge on croakers inside estuaries. |
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Like all dolphins, these marine mammals gather information about their environment by emitting high-pitched sounds, or clicks, and analyzing the returning echoes. |
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Those 13,, those 13 valuable wild mammals were the cow, sheep, goat, horse, pig, the reindeer, donkey, Arabian camel, Asian camel, water buffalo, yak, gaur and Bali cattle. |
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The evolution of endothermic metabolic rates and pelage and plumage in the earliest mammals and birds, respectively, followed radically different sequential chronologies. |
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The unequal expression in mammals of some maternally and paternally derived genes known as genomic imprinting reduces the masking benefits of diploidy. |
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Several insects, birds and mammals have been suggested or proven as likely pollinators, but some species appear to be self-pollinated or even cleistogamous. |
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Wanting to protect falconry as a sport, the government did not restrict the number of dogs that can be used to flush wild mammals for a bird of prey. |
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Sure, these two mammals live on different poles and would never actually meet. |
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Seminal studies in mammals indicated that the threshold at which the shift from an active to a passive behavioral response occurs is subject to great individual variation. |
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The original steppe was host to a myriad of species, including many small mammals such as susliks, pikas and voles, that are staple prey for sakers. |
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Flushing out mammals to be caught by a bird is not an offence, although a trained falconer would probably have to be on hand to supervise the procedure. |
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Crocodilians' hearts have four chambers like mammals and birds, but there is a pore between the left and right ventricles which allows some mixing. |
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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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We were not the only large mammals in this forest, and would sometimes catch a glimpse of a doe-eyed, bewhiskered face peering at us through the kelp. |
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It attacks the large quantities of unmarketable fish that are discarded at sea, and describes how mammals and birds get accidentally tangled up in nets and drown. |
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Most microscopists held that the blood of different mammals could not be differentiated, and so were reluctant to testify when a defendant's life might be at stake. |
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We have birds and mammals here such as the slender mongoose and large spotted genets that are not rare, but it's still nice to have them in a city like Johannesburg. |
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These mammals include beluga whales, narwhals, and ring seals. |
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In part because of their high metabolic rates, mammals often play an ecological role that seems disproportionately large compared to their numerical abundance. |
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Cenozoic mammals of North America exhibited equilibrial diversity for approximately 55 Myr, with strong local interactions limiting diversity in local assemblages. |
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Secreted nightly by the pineal gland, the hormone alerts birds, lizards, and mammals to approaching mating seasons and helps them keep track of hibernation deadlines. |
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The release of 195 decibels into this key waterway used by orcas, porpoises, seals, and other marine mammals was followed by an increase in strandings. |
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The seminal plasma of mammals is a complex fluid, which serves as a carrier for the spermatozoa in their journey from the male testes to their target, the female uterus. |
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Possessing keen vision, the vulture can see the carcasses of dead animals and the movements and activities of other scavengers, birds, or mammals from great distances. |
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In this way the ancestor of therian mammals came to possess a single generation of replacement teeth, which erupt when the jaw reaches a size large enough to accommodate them. |
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Pyrethroids for example may be quite soft on mammals and birds but this particular group of semi-synthetic pesticides is extremely toxic to insects, fish and amphibians. |
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Woolly mammoths are perhaps the best known mammals of the Ice Age. |
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In people, nonhuman primates, and other mammals with relatively large brains, the cerebral cortex's convolutions permit its large surface area to cram inside the skull. |
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Even mammals have nucleated red blood cells in their bone marrow. |
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Haramiyids were originally considered ancestral to the multituberculates, an important group of rodent-like mammals of the Mesozoic and early Tertiary. |
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During this time, the mammals radiated and evolved, but they could not make the breakthrough to becoming large or to diversifying their modes of like. |
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Within mammals a region of the hypothalamus known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus acts as a central clock regulating rhythms throughout the rest of the body. |
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In theropods, the absence of strongly heterodont dentitions such as are typical of omnivorous mammals might reflect the limited resources that were available. |
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Her group is particularly worried for the future of large mammals native to the Himalaya, including the tiger, Asian elephant, and greater one-horned rhinoceros. |
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Less than five percent of mammals practice monogamy, but it has been shown that in these mammals oxytocin is expressed in much higher concentrations. |
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Also, Paedotherium, a hare-sized notoungulate that is one of the most abundant mammals of the Pampean Region, has been found in association with burrows. |
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The split between Sonoran and Chihuahuan populations is less extensive, appearing in two of five species of birds, and potentially higher percentages of mammals and herps. |
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Also, humans are considered unaccomplished runners when compared to mammals such as pronghorn antelopes, which can sprint at 40 miles an hour for several minutes. |
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There are over 80 species of cetaceans, marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins and whales, but the Norwegians have traditionally hunted minke. |
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You can see exotic birds like cuckoos, owls, nightjars, barbets, hoopoe, yellow-billed magpies and black-capped sibias and mammals including langurs and furry pikas. |
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Chronically stressed mammals produce hormones called glucocorticoids, which can suppress certain immune-system and gonadal functions when the hormones remain elevated. |
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The ban extends to all ruminant animals, or mammals that chew their cud. |
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The living armadillos of South America bore a striking resemblance to fossil glyptodonts, extinct armored mammals whose fossils occurred in the same area. |
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Snakes have simple nerve endings for vibration perception and Herbst corpuscles in birds and Pacinian corpuscles in Eutherian mammals allow for perception of vibrations. |
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There are 105 species of birds in the park and mammals ranging from Andean foxes to pumas that only rarely venture down from their mountain lairs. |
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This information will help us predict the responses of wild mammals to both natural and anthropogenically induced changes in plant secondary metabolites. |
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The relationships of picrodontids were long a matter of uncertainty, with early workers allying these peculiar mammals with marsupials, bats, insectivorans, or dermopterans. |
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Roland Kays, curator of mammals at New York State Museum in Albany, studied two nocturnal raccoon relatives, kinkajous and olingos, at STRI in Panama. |
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When we studied all the patterns of amino-acid replacement and silent substitution, we discovered several replacements that all placental and marsupial mammals share. |
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Gibbons then ticks off a list of things that would have to change between land mammals and marine mammals, ignoring all of the fossil evidence after Pakicetus. |
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A monogamous mating system is unusual in bats and in mammals as a whole. |
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Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. |
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This study calls into question our long-standing view that warm-blooded mammals were only occasional and accidental hosts of this human fungal pathogen. |
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans. |
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The authority used its pilot boat to drive towards and alongside seal rocks at night, aiming a search light at the mammals to determine their response to noise and light. |
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To blend into their environment, some marine mammals have countershading. |
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In many taxa, such as mammals and Drosophila, the males are heterogametic, and, thus, hybrid male offspring are more prone to be inviable or sterile. |
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Pinnipeds are aquatic mammals with all flour limbs modified into flippers. |
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The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there. |
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Marine mammals which have high levels of contaminants stored in their fat, organs, and skin are heavily consumed by Inuits as part of their traditional diets. |
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There are two dozen species of birds, many of which winter in Europe, mammals such as polar bears and lemmings and many species of insects and plants. |
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Neither feeding away from the intertidal zone nor a close association with colonial birds and mammals has been reported in either nigrofumosus or taczanowskii. |
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Had dinosaurs not been annihilated by an asteroidal impact, mammals might still be small, nocturnal insect-eaters unable to evolve higher intelligence. |
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He also claimed any person walking a dog of a hunting breed in an area where there were known to be wild mammals could be open to prosecution if they let the dog loose. |
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Garbage will attract gulls and mammals that prey upon nesting birds. |
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But which mammals are their closest relatives, and when did whales enter the seas? |
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The hundreds of mammals include rare species like the puma, jaguar and spectacled bear. |
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Native mammals include the palm civet cat, the dugong, the cloud rat and the Philippine tarsier associated with Bohol. |
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The Philippines has among the highest rates of discovery in the world with sixteen new species of mammals discovered in the last ten years. |
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The montane area of Seram supports the greatest number of endemic mammals of any island in the region. |
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Of 25 species of mammals found on the island, at least four are endemic to Buru and closest to it islands. |
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Small mammals with small larynxes have the ability to produced ultrasound, which can be detected by modifications to the middle ear and cochlea. |
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In natural cycles, anisakid larvae are transmitted to marine mammals or piscivorous birds when they eat raw saltwater fish or squid. |
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It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. |
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Fossils in China demonstrate a migration of Asian mammals into North America around 55 million years ago. |
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Albatrosses have evolved to breed on islands where land mammals are absent and have not developed defences against them. |
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In addition, Indohyus, carnivores, and an archaic group of meat-eating mammals called creodonts were included. |
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Many mammals methylate trivalent inorganic arsenic in liver to species that are released into the bloodstream and excreted in urine and feces. |
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The autosome that became X and Y in mammals lives on as autosomes in chickens. |
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It also had longer hind legs and shorter forearms, similar to climbing mammals that hang under branches, such as sloths and gibbons. |
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The influence of browsing by introduced mammals on the decline of the Noah Island kokako. |
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Skipper of the Sheerwater, Alan Grey, said the playful mammals can be seen swimming at great speed alongside his boat before surfacing for air. |
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A mature red cell of the bird blood as against the mammals and human blood has a nuclear structure. |
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The only exceptions among mammals are sloths and aquatic mammals known as sirenians, such as manatees. |
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The diet of pelicans usually consists of fish, but occasionally amphibians, turtles, crustaceans, insects, birds and mammals are also eaten. |
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The closing of the seaway allowed a major migration of land mammals between North and South America or The Great American Interchange. |
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Kodiak's native mammals are the Kodiak bear, northern river otter, short-tailed weasel, little brown bat, and tundra vole. |
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The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries. |
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The occurrence of babesiasis affecting small terrestrial mammals and the importance of this zoonosis in Europe. |
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For mammals to use the proteins in our bodies, a process called protein folding must occur in the endoplasmic reticulum of cells. |
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Marine mammals were hunted by coastal aboriginal humans historically for food and other resources. |
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Introduced mammals are a problem, although populations can recover when rats and cats are removed from islands. |
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Lysozyme is a protein found in tissues and secretions of mammals and in the egg white of bird eggs. |
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Larger mammals occurred in low frequencies and included young lagomorphs, caviomorphs, and marsupials. |
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Statements that birds are dinosaurs are as silly as claiming that mammals are synapsid reptiles, or that all amniotes are amphibians. |
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Some of these genes are also crucial in digit formation in amniotes, a group including reptiles, mammals and birds but not amphibians. |
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The mammals selected for special morphological attention are large species, goats, pigs, horses and camelids. |
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Wild mammals include the Arctic fox, mink, mice, rats, rabbits, and reindeer. |
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Thus, for example, we can divide the class of mammals into dogs and nondogs. |
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Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young. |
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Heart beats in all mammals are stimulated by the binding of catecholamine to beta adrenergic receptors in these cardiac cells. |
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This would be unlikely with a very rapid imprinter such as a duckling or a chick, but mammals tend to become socialized more slowly. |
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The changes are similar to ones seen in other warm-blooded mammals living in Arctic conditions, such as reindeer and musk oxen. |
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Geckoes in turn are preyed upon by some of our small nocturnal mammals such as, dunnarts, planigales, antechinus, etc. |
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Scientists think the seaquake off Norway on August 30 may have made the mammals veer off course. |
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Carnivorous mammals include the fox, badger, otter, weasel, stoat and elusive wildcat. |
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If the tree was correct, the molar thought to belong exclusively to live-bearing mammals had evolved separately in the egg-laying monotremes. |
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Manatees' closest living land relatives are elephants, aardvarks, and small mammals known as hyraxes. |
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Sea lions, fur seals, toothed whales, and other marine mammals can get caught on the hooks or tangled in the lines. |
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Repeated horizontal transfer of a DNA transposon in mammals and other tetrapods. |
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The family tree, or cladogram, below shows the branches of primates, the order of mammals that includes humans, monkeys, apes, and lemurs. |
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Some rare species of cassowaries and mammals were identified in the same study. |
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In mammals, hibernation is so widespread that researchers reason that the ancestor of all mammals must have been a hibernator. |
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Females also have a joint urinary and genital tract, a characteristic shared with primitive mammals such as the monotremes of Australia. |
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Known as monotremes, these mammals were more common tens of millions of years ago. |
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Snowy Owls are known to mainly prey on small mammals such as lemmings and meadow voles. |
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Also, since cocaine can cause mammals to become anorexic, he also wondered what effect cocaine might have on insect feeding behavior. |
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Putrescine is naturally produced in mammals by an enzyme called ornithine decarboxylase,or ODC, and is easily absorbed and cleared by the body. |
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The square-cube law helps to explain why large mammals like elephants have a harder time cooling themselves than smaller ones like mice. |
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Obesogenic chemicals promote weight gain in mammals by altering lipid metabolism, which results in increased fat accumulation. |
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The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years. |
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The 10 coronaviruses that infect mammals fall into two clusters, each of which contains one virus that causes colds in people. |
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Bone crushers first appeared among the creodonts, the first order of mammals to take over the land. |
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The largest wild mammals that remain in Britain today are predominantly members of the deer family. |
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However, in recent times some of these large mammals have been tentatively reintroduced to some areas of mainland Britain. |
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