Following the introduction and spread of pigs, mouflon sheep, and other alien ungulates, however, it suffered a severe decline. |
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The ancient hoofed condylarths gave way to more modern ungulates, and became extinct before the end of the epoch. |
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Important studies on elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees and rare and elusive ungulates such as the okapi and duiker have been ongoing for decades. |
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Much of the anatomy of skulls and teeth in subungulates and ungulates has evolved in response to their herbivorous lifestyles. |
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Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants. |
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For example, most grazing and mixed feeding ungulates have hypsodont teeth, but the hippo and the rock hyrax have brachyodont teeth. |
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Rich argues that Western grasslands need the presence of large ungulates, like the bison that once roamed the plains. |
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Archaic ungulates were long known to be among many eutherians to make their first appearance and proliferate in the Paleocene. |
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Mammalian species include shrews and gymnures, bats, rats, squirrels, ungulates, civet cats and deer. |
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Mate guarding is the primary mating tactic used by dominant males of many species of ungulates. |
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Traditional morphological taxonomy groups the even-toed ungulates within the order Artiodactyla. |
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It is in these layers that fossils of odd-toed ungulates, even-toed ungulates, and primates first appear. |
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Here I test whether this assumption holds true by analyzing the feeding strategy of various ungulates, particularly equids. |
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The hotspot is also home to a rich variety of ungulates, including the threatened argali wild sheep. |
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The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates. |
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The major threat to the recovery of silverswords continues to be alien ungulates. |
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Large ungulates including elk, black-tailed deer, and the mountain goat spend their winters grazing on the northeast ridge above Callaghan Lake. |
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The Garamba complex still harbours populations of elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, hippos and numerous other species of ungulates. |
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On the one hand, paleontologists long believed that a group of extinct ungulates, the mesonychids, were the most likely ancestors of cetaceans. |
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When hunting ungulates it is a requirement that a specially trained tracker dog can be available within two hours. |
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Next, we collected information on the color, behavioral, and ecological characteristics of 200 species of even-toed ungulates and coded this in binary format. |
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When visiting Brno, don't miss the big African sub ungulates roaming free or the aquarium exhibition in the center of town. |
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Since ungulates are not always available, wolverines must have a diversity of prey in their diet to survive. |
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Moyles notes that the increasing popularity of swath grazing for livestock also attracts ungulates. |
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This might have been possible because of the abundance of highly attractive vegetation making oak relatively unpreferred by ungulates. |
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Breeding animals include cattle, sheep, bison, elk, deer and other grazing ungulates more than 12 months old and kept for breeding purposes. |
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The Scientific Council was also in favour of a meeting on Arabian ungulates. |
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This Directive will also require amendments as the new proposal lays down rules for wild as well as domestic ungulates. |
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Elk was used to assess use by ungulates and to serve as an ecological indicator of use of early seral habitats. |
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In the southern part of its range, however, the Canada lynx's diet is more diversified: it preys on carrion and possibly even young ungulates. |
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This group of ungulates includes horses, tapirs, and rhinos. |
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Although this sort of analogy to herd-living, open-country ungulates will always be somewhat conjectural, it is far from being completely speculative. |
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These insects carry sleeping sickness, which is as much a bane of ungulates as it is of people. |
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East African sleeping sickness, caused by T brucei rhodesiense, is a zoonosis with an extensive animal reservoir in ungulates, including game animals. |
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Apart from the distinct rutting behavior, one of the most pronounced features seen in many ungulates is the difference in habitat utilization before the rut season. |
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The presence of extremely large upper canines in an herbivorous kangaroo is a unexpected example of evolutionary convergence with Tertiary and even extant ungulates. |
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Like many other wild ungulates, Bactrian camels live in social groups dominated by a single male, but I had no idea that a bull could control such a large harem. |
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Purely by way of example, the image at left shows the nomenclature used for notoungulates, an extinct group of ungulates endemic to the early Cenozoic of South America. |
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In polygamous ungulates the development of large body size, fighting abilities, and consequent high social status is important in male mating access. |
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Monitoring of elephants and large ungulates in the grasslands of Africa has been carried out for decades using direct counts of individuals or herds during foot surveys, counts from offroad vehicles or from small aircraft. |
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The species primarily feeds on small rodents, though it may also target rabbits, game birds, reptiles, invertebrates and young ungulates. |
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Meat of domestic ungulates, farmed game mammals other than lagomorphs and large wild game shall be health marked under the responsibility of the official veterinarian. |
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They are the most efficient walkers of all ungulates in North America, and they are good navigators, unerringly walking hundreds of kilometres from the taiga to their relatively small calving areas on the tundra in spring. |
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Hooves, the characteristic feature of the hoofed mammals, or ungulates, are exaggerated nails, with the unguis curved all around the end of the digit and surrounding the subunguis. |
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Steeve Côté, Chairholder and specialist in the ecology of wild ungulates, is particularly interested in cervid-forest relationships and their role in wildlife population dynamics. |
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These animals include small mammals such as hamsters, pikas and jerboas, carnivore species of fox, wolf and Pallas' cat, and large ungulates such as ibex and gazelles. |
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Among terrestrial vertebrates, the start of the Eocene is marked by the appearance of two new groups of animals: the perissodactyls, or odd-toed ungulates, and the artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulates. |
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In Zimbabwe the DGIC funded research programme aims at the study of interactions between helminth parasites of ruminants, mainly cattle and game, especially ungulates, in mixed farms around Harare. |
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The first day of the workshop was attended by 60 veterinarians and other experts in the fields of toxicology, parasitology, pathology, and anatomy of ungulates and carnivores. |
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For example, in winter, when snow conditions are right, coyotes can kill large ungulates, or hoofed mammals, such as deer, that multiply in the absence of wolves. |
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The tonsils serve as a filter of all noxious agents entering the oral cavity of animals and should be removed for hygienic and safety reasons during the process of slaughtering domestic ungulates. |
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However, activities to conserve marine mammals, turtles, albatrosses, and ungulates in arid regions, will require CMS to intensify its contacts and co-operation with a number of global and regional conventions. |
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He has participated in and led a variety of wildlife investigations within Labrador ranging from studies of waterfowl and songbirds to small mammals and ungulates. |
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In ungulates, this is apparently exaggerated by the presence of the eponychia, or collagenous pads over the sole of the fetal hoof. |
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Unlike the stoat and weasel, the polecat readily eats carrion, including that of large ungulates. |
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It feeds primarily on large ungulates, though it also eats smaller animals, livestock, carrion, and garbage. |
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Although wolves primarily feed on medium to large sized ungulates, they are not fussy eaters. |
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Tapeworms are commonly found in wolves, as their primary hosts are ungulates, small mammals, and fish, which wolves feed upon. |
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Wolves probably become infected with Trichinella spiralis by eating infected ungulates. |
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Native South American ungulates also did poorly, with only a handful of genera withstanding the northern onslaught. |
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The term herd is generally applied to mammals, and most particularly to the grazing ungulates that classically display this behaviour. |
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Like most ungulates, the zebra's eyes are on the sides of its head, giving it a wide field of view. |
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For example, small changes in temperature can substantially alter the transmission of lung worms and muscle worms pathogenic to ungulates. |
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The list of countries should be laid down for imports into or transit through, the Community of meat of wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae. |
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Mr. James Bezan: And that includes the health of those ungulates? |
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Who's the custodian of the wild ungulates outside of the park? |
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Carcases of domestic ungulates may be cut into half-carcases, and half-carcases into quarters or a maximum of three pieces in approved slaughterhouses. |
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Those regions that have the most different kinds of habitat and prey, particularly those that include large ungulates, or animals with hooves, contain the most wolverines. |
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In addition, Parks Canada is working with the railway companies to reduce the volume of grain spilled on the tracks because this may attract ungulates and, hence, wolves. |
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In the worst case scenario, it could spread through the grass plains, competing with local species and therefore taking away an important food source of the ungulates. |
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In addition to direct threats from alien ungulates, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa silverswords may face serious indirect threats from alien insects, especially ants and wasps. |
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Mammals of great size developed, giving rise to ungulates, such as horses and deer, and strange, now-extinct creatures, such as mesonychids and uintatheres. |
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Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated ungulates. |
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They are the most regular predator of ungulates among extant bear species. |
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In most of their range, brown bears regularly feed on ungulates. |
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The epiphysial union pattern of the ungulates with a note on Sirenia. |
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Because silverswords had evolved in the absence of ungulates, their unbranched structure and single rosette of leaves made them painfully vulnerable. |
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Although ungulates are not typical prey, the killing of one during the summer months can greatly increase the odds of survival during that lean period. |
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Camelids are the only ungulates to mate in a sitting position. |
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These advantages can be clearly seen in the cases of ungulates and their predators, where South American forms were replaced wholesale by the invaders. |
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On very rare occasions, foxes may attack young or small ungulates. |
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In Italy and Belarus' Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, boars are the wolf's primary prey, despite an abundance of alternative, less powerful ungulates. |
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