Sentence examples for study of geese from inspiring English sources

Much of the subject matter is generic, but by and large the paintings are of exceptional quality, like Briton Riviere's animated study of geese, "An Anxious Moment" (1878), painted in the wake of Charles Darwin's 1872 book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals".

The findings have their roots in studies of geese carried out in the 1930s.

My study group of geese - the parents, siblings and aunts, uncles and cousins with whom I've bonded over the years - break out in a group purr as I walk through, sounding like a celestial chorus in the wild.

A study on geese just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Robert Fleischer of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and his colleagues, nicely illustrates this messiness.

This contrasts with the earlier study of barnacle geese where no change in energy consumption was detected, although it appears likely that behavioural changes (resting barnacle geese were observed to sit when carrying a sternal load) may offset the metabolic cost of the load (Tickle et al., 2010).

These results concur with previous reports of load carrying economy in birds, in that there is a less than proportional relationship between increasing load and metabolic rate (found previously in guinea fowl), while application of sternal loads causes an approximate doubling of metabolic rate compared to back loads (reported in an earlier study of barnacle geese).

"Initially the bears were destroying our main object of study—lifetime reproduction of geese.

Naturalist Milton Olson studied the formation of geese and found that as each goose flaps its wings it creates an uplift for the one following behind.

The lower susceptibility, relative to the other species examined in this study, of bar-headed geese was surprising considering the large number of birds that died at the Qinghai Lake outbreak in 2005.

The results above may facilitate further studies of the goose IFNGR-mediated immunological signaling pathway.

One female disappeared the night after release and was probably taken by a fox, the main natural predator of geese at the study site.