Mammalian species include shrews and gymnures, bats, rats, squirrels, ungulates, civet cats and deer. |
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The placental mammals include such diverse forms as whales, bats, elephants, shrews, and armadillos. |
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Like their relatives, rubber boas kill by constriction, with prey usually mice or shrews. |
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Species specific footdrumming patterns are documented in gerbils, elephant shrews and kangaroo rats. |
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Today these are represented by the elephants, the sea cows, the elephant shrews, the golden moles, the tenrecs and the aardvark. |
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The most common assumption from anatomical evidence has been that they group with primates, flying lemurs, and tree shrews, forming the Archonta. |
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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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The flashing was buried approximately 5 cm deep to reduce the chance of shrews burrowing underneath. |
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They are nocturnal hunters and feed mainly on small mammals like mice, rats, voles and shrews. |
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They typically have a long snout, as evidenced by most moles and shrews and solenodons. |
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The Sanderson collection contains such rare and scientifically interesting smaller mammals as otter shrews and solenodons. |
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Also called mouse opossums and rat opossums, their appearance is more suggestive of shrews. |
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Now, with this Ann doll, you can start training those young girls at an early age to become bigoted shrews! |
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Destroys wildflower meadows, home to great crested newts, voles, field mice, shrews and rabbits. |
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With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice. |
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Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares. |
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There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle. |
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But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game. |
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Like elephant shrews, tree shrews have often been considered a divergent family of Insectivora. |
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These include the shrews, some moles, some bats, the striped skunk, the pinniped carnivores, toothed whales, the aardvark, and murid rodents. |
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Even comprehensive analyses have not clarified phylogenetic relationships among aardvarks, tenrecs, golden moles, and elephant shrews. |
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Afrotheria is a newly recognized taxon comprising elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, and elephant shrews. |
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Small, spiny, pointy-nosed creatures known as tenrecs are the equivalents of shrews, moles and hedgehogs. |
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The wood abounds with wildlife, including badgers, foxes, shrews, butterflies and an array of birds. |
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The waterfall area had forktails, Malayan water shrews, and Malayan whistling-thrush. |
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Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. |
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They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well. |
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There are many possibilities, especially for comparative research in mole rats, agouti, gerbils and elephant shrews. |
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These unicuspid teeth are useful for identifying some kinds of shrews. |
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Today they are an ideal habitat for many creatures including water shrews. |
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It is noteworthy that the studies in ducks, woodchucks and tree shrews did include some animals also infected with hepatitis virus in addition to aflatoxin treatment. |
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Among mammals, my annual visitors now include a few common smoky shrews, short-tailed shrews, red-backed voles, and, last but certainly not least in numbers, deer mice. |
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The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews. |
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While bats are highly specialized for flight, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora, the mammalian taxon that includes shrews and moles. |
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Elephant shrews have elongated snouts and large eyes and ears. |
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Kestrels eat voles, mice and shrews, small birds, insects and earthworms. |
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This superorder comprises primates, colugos, bats, and tree shrews. |
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Mr Satinet also explained how the traps worked and gave the children lots of information about small mammals including shrews, water voles and field mice. |
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Notable among these are primates, tree shrews, dermopterans, and bats. |
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Afrotheria are conceived as a long-distinct clade endemic to Africa, and including elephant shrews, golden moles, aardvarks, elephants, sirenians, and hyraxes. |
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Squirrel-like tree shrews in the forests of northwest Borneo rest on the rims of pitcher plants and lick up nectar. |
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It feeds mainly on earthworms, but also on insects, centipedes and even mice and shrews. |
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Today, mammals of note include shrews, voles, badgers, otters, hedgehogs and fifteen species of bat. |
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Wildcats on the Black Sea coast are thought to feed on small birds, shrews, and hares. |
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Young shrews often form a caravan behind their mother, each carrying the tail of its sibling in front with its mouth. |
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Common shrews have evolved an amazing adaptation to survive through the winter. |
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Shrews are extremely territorial and will aggressively defend their home ranges from other shrews. |
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Common shrews are found throughout the woodlands, grasslands, and hedgelands of Britain, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe. |
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British stoats rarely kill shrews, rats, squirrels and water voles, though rats may be an important food source locally. |
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They create wetlands, which increase biodiversity and provide habitat for many rare species such as water voles, otters, and water shrews. |
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With luck, you may spot a stoat hunting or a barn owl flying low over the meadows hunting for field voles and shrews. |
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The species that count the forest as habitat include the bushbaby, elephant shrews and sunbirds, as well as hippos, elephants and lions. |
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The most specialised is the water shrew, which is larger than our other two shrews. |
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Tree shrews have been classified as prosimian or insectivorous on the basis of their similarity or dissimilarity to primates. |
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The impressive new building, almost 40ft high, will house other species including hornbills, tree shrews, peafowl, squirrels and tortoises. |
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Rats, tree shrews, and monkeys infected with Borna disease virus behave much like humans with bipolar disorder. |
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However, the unicuspid teeth of all long-tailed shrews from that area should be carefully examined. |
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Prey species of secondary importance include small birds, fish, and shrews and, more rarely, amphibians, lizards, and insects. |
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Many fossorial mammals were classified under the, now obsolete, order Insectivora, such as shrews, hedgehogs and moles. |
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Although it kills insectivores, such as moles and shrews, it rarely eats them because of the pungent scent glands on their flanks. |
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The red kite's diet consists mainly of small mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, young hares and rabbits. |
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However, the tenrecs, golden moles, and some shrews retain a cloaca as adults. |
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Diet consists mainly of small mammals, such as mice, voles, and shrews, as well as lizards. |
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When in captivity, moles will eat a wide variety of food items including liver, mice, mealworms, shrews and maggots. |
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After comparing a special kind of DNA among the mammals in its study, Murphy's team concluded that tree shrews branched off from the ancient ancestor first. |
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Earthworms are their most important food source, followed by large insects, carrion, cereals, fruit and small mammals including rabbits, mice, shrews, moles and hedgehogs. |
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Curded to beastings, breached my palate, The expressionless gaze of the leopard, The coils of the sleeping anaconda, The nightlong frenzy of shrews. |
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The team used MRI scanners to analyse the arrangement of canals and eye muscles in 51 species of mammal including giraffes, camels and zebra, tree shrews, bats and sloths. |
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Other than bats taken at night, the peregrine rarely hunts mammals, but will on occasion take small species such as rats, voles, hares, shrews, mice and squirrels. |
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Its food consists mainly of rodents, especially voles, but it will eat other small mammals such as mice, ground squirrels, shrews, rats, bats, muskrats and moles. |
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The tree shrews and the rats defecate into the plant's traps while visiting them to feed on sweet, fruity secretions from glands on the pitcher lids. |
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The main predators of shrews are owls, weasels, stoats, and red foxes. |
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Recent additions include a bald eagle exhibit, a giant anteater exhibit, river otters, tree shrews, Chinese alligators and renovation of the Fabric of Africa exhibit. |
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Tests so far have been carried out on musk shrews and marmoset monkeys. |
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Since shrews and bank voles prefer forests, they are probably less vulnerable to the frost seesaw effect than field voles, which mainly occupy open habitats. |
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But it is not this big to swallow up mammals such as tree shrews or rats. |
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Variable squirrels and northern tree shrews visited the nest nine times. |
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