Sentence examples for at a carcass from inspiring English sources

The marabou (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) and other members of the same genus are partly predatory but largely scavengers and carrion eaters, and they may often be seen with vultures at a carcass.

If Cain somehow retains solid support through the primaries, Romney's free to co-opt any of Cain's positions, like a vulture picking at a carcass.

One or two birds generally descend to feed at a carcass, although occasionally up to ten or so may gather if there is significant amount of food.

Its only natural predators are snakes, which will prey upon the vulture's eggs and young, and large cats such as jaguars, which may surprise and kill an adult vulture at a carcass.

Additionally, the number of individuals present at a carcass tends to increase as prey size increases [18].

The probability of detection (Eq. 2) is also the probability of our detecting that a wolf had been in attendance at a carcass.

Moreover, although estimates are currently unavailable for the maximum number of birds whose access to food an at-a-carcass dominant juvenile can even partially limit (icrit); it is unlikely to exceed 30.

Strong jaws and broad molars allow the animal to get at every part of a carcass and crush bones, which are digested in the stomach by highly concentrated hydrochloric acid.

We assumed that maintenance cost were 75%% of all production costs, since the maintenance cost of a sheep was estimated as USD$101.188 and its selling price as USD$134.911 (assuming slaughter at 40 kg, with a carcass utilization of 50%% of weight).

Seven of these nine traits i.e. birth weight, weaning weight, carcass weight, teat number, IMF, Back-Fat Thickness (BFT) between the 3rd and 4th ribs of a carcass at 6 cm from the spine and Longissimus Dorsi (LD) depth were chosen because they had been recorded in both designs with the same conditions.

Two different SNR genotypes were isolated from a carcass and adjacent soil at each of two carcass sites.