Hawaiian honeycreeper, any member of a group of related birds, many of them nectar-eating, that evolved in the forests of the Hawaiian Islands and are found only there.
"Tigers have evolved in the forests of Asia for 2 million years and effectively they have evolved around those four big teeth at the front of their mouth, their canine teeth," Giles explains.
This year, the agency has planted 155,000 seedlings — all from seeds collected exclusively from trees that evolved in the Angeles National Forest.
The arc of human evolution bears an uncanny resemblance to the children's game Fortunately/Unfortunately. Fortunately, our ancestors evolved in the African rain forests.
That's primarily because grays can digest acorns, an ability they evolved in the oak-hickory forests of eastern North America.
Having evolved in the temperate and subtropical forests of eastern Asia, the tiger is less tolerant of heat than other large cats, which may explain why it is an adept swimmer that appears to enjoy bathing.
Subsistence and husbandry activities, including cultivation, gathering, collecting of bedding and forage, even grazing in the forests, seems to have evolved in the local landscape.
To learn about how swimming evolved in the insects, scientists dropped 35 types of tropical forest ants into water.
We critically examine the hypothesis that dry forests in southern British Columbia evolved in the context of a low-severity fire-dominated disturbance regime, that fire suppression has led to ecological conditions which are radically different from the past, and that "restoration" initiatives are required to re-establish former ecological conditions.
