Sentence examples for mammals act from inspiring English sources

Large herbivorous mammals act as vectors of dispersal for many forbs and grasses through ingestion and excretion of seeds (endozoochory).

The WTO ruled in favour of commercial interests against dolphins protected by the US marine mammals act and turtles protected under the US endangered species act.

The Hunting Ban does not apply to Scotland, which has a Protection of Wild Mammals Act which was passed in 2002.

Thus, the renal UTs in mammals act together with the renal AQPs and have integral roles in regulating the body water balance [ 31].

In many regions of the world, wild mammals act as reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis, a situation that prevents the eradication of bovine tuberculosis.

GM2-AP are ubiquitous lysosomal proteins [ 58] which, in mammals, act as substrate-specific co-factors of β-hexosaminidase-A for the hydrolysis of GM2 ganglioside, a class of glycolipids positive to oil-red staining.

It is uncertain whether the pineal hormone melatonin, which may alter sleep/wake physiology in mammals, acts at this site.

Additional advantages of the ability to disperse extremely large individual seeds would be related to the possibility that these large mammals acted as long-distance dispersers of these large seeds.

Leishmaniases are primarily zoonotic diseases, and a variety of mammals acts as reservoirs of Leishmania species.

It does not extend to the marine mammal act, which protects whales, dolphins and other species that could be harmed in Naval exercises.

Hunting hare with Beagles became popular again in Britain in the mid-19th century and continued until it was made illegal in Scotland by the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and in England and Wales by the Hunting Act 2004.