Sentence examples for animals favoured from inspiring English sources

The ability of the slow loris to seek out the most potent brew in reach was discovered by researchers in the US who wanted to know whether the animals favoured highly-fermented nectar over the less alcoholic forms secreted by plants in their natural habitats.

Shark diving may provide an economic alternative to fishing, promoting an ecological and economical sustainable use of these animals, favouring their conservation.

Recently, the main threat to the species has changed from collectors to the decrease in grazing animals, favouring the expansion of competitive species and habitat closure (Cambecèdes and Largier 2009).

Because parasitic pressures in humans (as well as in many other animals) favour the emergence of behaviours aimed at avoiding contagion, for example, xenophobia or a limited propensity for dispersion (Faulkner 2004), they eventually lead to the fractioning of populations into smaller functional groups.

During cocaine-self administration, animals significantly favoured the active cocaine-paired lever as compared to the inactive lever (F1,27 = 130.84, p<.001) and this preference did not differ between the treatment groups (F3,27 = 1.47, p = .24).24

Sea slugs are active hunters that prey on a wide variety of animals, often favouring sea anemones.

For example, if the gene that causes altruism also causes animals to favour a particular feeding ground (for whatever reason), then the required correlation between donor and recipient may be generated.

For example, during an immune challenge animals may favour using carotenoids for immune function rather than for colouration [2], [18], [19].

Humans and other animals often favour immediate gratification over long-term gain.

In this scenario, contacts with domestic animals may favour the transmission of infectious agents that, under still poorly defined circumstances, may trigger and sustain B-cell lymphoproliferation.

He favoured animals; she vegetation.