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matthew savoca, jeremy goldbogen, and nicholas pyenson | january , | comments comment tweet by matthew savoca , postdoctoral researcher, stanford university; jeremy goldbogen , assistant professor of biology, stanford university; and nicholas pyenson , research geologist and curator of fossil marine mammals

we tackled this question by drawing on animal energetics – the study of how efficiently organisms ingest prey and turn the energy it contains into body mass. getting large is based on simple math: if a creature can gain more calories than it spends, it gets bigger. this may seem intuitive, but demonstrating...

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anglican communion primates' meetings - wikipedia anglican communion primates' meetings from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia jump to navigation jump to search anglican communion part of a series on anglicanism organisation archbishop of canterbury justin welby anglican communion history anglican communion

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us comment policy contact us advocacy for animals how fake assistance animals and their users are gaming the system and increasing prejudices how fake assistance animals and their users are gaming the system and increasing prejudices by the conversation | march , | comments comment service dogs and other

"bee-washing" hurts bees and misleads consumers "bee-washing" hurts bees and misleads consumers by the conversation | february , | comments comment bee populations are declining because of pesticides and other human-generated activities. some studies estimate that more than percent of insect species'...

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selous game reserve is located in the southern part of tanzania and is bordered by mikumi national park to the north-west, and the udzungwa mountains national park with the kibasira swamp to the west. it encompasses the rufiji river and its delta and hence the altitude of this park is not as high as other

do not need to be worried about hunting parties or hunters – these two attractions are strictly separated and each has its' own assigned areas. animals can roam freely within the selous game reserve and the blocks designated for hunting are not fenced off. this means that hundreds of elephants and other...

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sea otters and river otters in bc as a naturalist onboard our whale watching vessels, i often get a lot of questions about the otters we see in victoria, british columbia. although we do have a healthy population of otters living around the rocky shores of vancouver island, most of these cute furry mammals

are actually river otters adapted to living in salt water, rather than the true sea otters most people are familiar with. although similar looking, river otters tend to be skinnier and less furry than their sea otter cousins, and spend much of their time running around on land as well as in the water...

http://vancouverisland.com/all-about-otters-sea-otters-and-river-otters-in-british-columbia/

source . hybrid cats these exotic pets which are actually technically domesticated—perhaps more so than a common non-pedigree cat—are legal in most states depending on their percentage of so-called wild genetics. hybrid cats consist of the breeds savannah cat (serval hybrid), bengal cat (asian leopard

cat hybrid) and the jungle cat hybrid. none of these hybrids are mixed with so-called big cats, and all are not large enough to desire to prey on humans. still, hybrid cats carry a large stigma. in california, all generation hybrid cats are legal. this rule is much better than in states like new york...

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scientific classification kingdom: animalia phylum: chordata class: mammalia superorder: xenarthra order: cingulata illiger, family: dasypodidae gray, families pampatheriidae (prehistoric) glyptodontidae (prehistoric) dasypodidae armadillo is the common name for any of the small, placental , old world mammals

subsequently realized that edentata was polyphyletic—that it contained unrelated families and was thus invalid by cladistic standards. aardvarks and pangolins are now placed in individual orders. the name xenarthra means "strange joints," and was chosen because their vertebral joints are unlike those of any other...

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the stomach also physically churns and mixes the food. the stomach secretions include the enzyme pepsin pepsin, enzyme produced in the mucosal lining of the stomach that acts to degrade protein. pepsin is one of three principal protein-degrading, or proteolytic, enzymes in the digestive system, the other

carbohydrates into disaccharides; and trypsin trypsin, enzyme that acts to degrade protein; it is often referred to as a proteolytic enzyme, or proteinase. trypsin is one of the three principal digestive proteinases, the other two being pepsin and chymotrypsin. ..... click the link for more information...

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marine mammal - wikipedia marine mammal from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (redirected from marine mammals ) jump to navigation jump to search mammals that rely on marine environments for feeding a humpback whale (megaptera novaeangliae) a leopard seal (hydrurga leptonyx) marine mammals are aquatic

mammals that rely on the ocean and other marine ecosystems for their existence. they include animals such as seals , whales , manatees , sea otters and polar bears . they are an informal group, unified only by their reliance on marine environments for feeding. marine mammal adaptation to an aquatic...

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