Sentence examples for grazing grasses from inspiring English sources

Ranchers complain that prairie dogs destroy grazing grasses, but conservationists argue that black-footed ferrets, an endangered species, need to eat prairie dogs to survive.

But beyond the inferno over the Canyon Day range there is a silent, prolonged crisis, a strangling seven-year drought that has led to the siphoning off the aquifer, the blackening of the grazing grasses and the starving of animals to the point of hide, bone and sinew.

They also amassed yak and cowpats in a particular spot as animals avoid grazing grasses growing on their own dung.

However, the overall trends toward higher-crowned teeth (shown by the symbols for browsing leaves or grazing grasses), larger size, longer limbs, and reduction of side toes are still true (after Prothero 1994).

are the most commonly grazed grasses.

This study suggests that a cause for the decline may be the poor food quality of previously grazed grasses that reduces digestive efficiency in voles (Massey & Hartley 2006).

("A rabbit's jawbone allows it to graze grass lower than a sheep," Gordon Irvine told me recently, "and both those animals can graze grass lower than a cow").

You can feed them hay, grain, silage or even let them graze grass if there is plenty of grass for your cows to eat.

Range cattle, the beginning of supermarket beef, live in these pastures year round, grazing on grasses like blue grama, buffalo grass, big and little bluestem.

Grazing on grasses, seen in many modern mammalian herbivores, would not have been possible for Stegosaurus, as grasses did not evolve until late into the Cretaceous Period, long after Stegosaurus had become extinct.

The explanation might thus be that the sheep on the scrapie-prone farms have, during summer time, in general been grazing on grasses containing less selenium than is found in the highland vegetation (cf. 3).