Sentence examples for migratory mammals from inspiring English sources

Researchers have not demonstrated that ability in other species, but Dr. Davis said migratory mammals or birds could have it.

As Wright explained in Fauna No. 1, few parks are "independent biological units"—their boundaries were designed to encompass scenic features rather than, say, protect year-round habitats for migratory mammals.

The Mongolian Gobi is one of the last refuges for the Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus) and other threatened migratory mammals.

Bats are the most abundant migratory mammals as crossing the water is no obstacle for them.

Cryptochrome helps birds - as well as other migratory mammals and insects - orient themselves and navigate, by tracing the Earth's magnetic fields.

Elephant seals, one of the deepest divers in the ocean and a migratory mammal that spends 83% of the year feeding far from the coast in pelagic waters beyond the thermocline in the modal temperature range 4.2 5.2°C [ 29], are impacted by ocean warming.

In the northeastern United States, populations from a variety of taxonomic groups (including insects, migratory songbirds, mammals, and snakes) are rapidly declining in response to the loss of early-successional habitats.

"The Japanese have insisted on the scientific legitimacy of the whaling practice for decades, and now that it is unmasked, it is a desperate search for any argument to justify the killing of these highly migratory marine mammals," he said.

Migratory birds, mammals, poultry, and humans could be potential reservoirs of H7 subtype avian influenza viruses (2, 3 ), so all of these possibilities were simultaneously evaluated immediately after the discovery of the novel virus.

However, this kind of information and quantitative data on the abundance of ticks and vertebrate reservoirs (i.e. non-migratory terrestrial mammals, such as hares, small rodents, hedgehogs and resident bird species) were not available in our study.

Though the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, Japan is permitted to catch whales for what it claims is important research into the mammals' migratory and reproductive habits.