With my colleagues at theSanta Cruz Puma Project, I am studying how human disturbances indirectly affect the behavior of pumas, the last remaining large carnivores in our region that roam the ravines between ridges lined with houses. We havefoundthat pumas attempt to avoid people, but their sen...
Because the Earth's climate is so complex, no one is really sure how much a change to one region's climate will affect other regions. For example, scientists at the University of Colorado theorize that the decrease in sea ice in the Arctic could reduce snowfall in Colorado because Arctic ...
Dr. Wasser is hopeful that the method of using DNA information from elephants to track illegally killed wildlife will soon be adopted to help protect other kinds of animals and break up more criminal groups.1. Why do scientists use DNA information from elephants? A.To improve the health of ...
1 Which aspect of the Great Spotted Eagle does the research focus on? A. Their survival skills. B. Their physical health. C. Their breeding habits. D. Their seasonal behavior.2 How did the Ukraine crisis affect the Great Spotted Eagles? E. They increased their flight altitude. F. They ...
A.The loss of any species can affect humans.B.Endangered species are paid more attention to by humans.C.Species can still survive when their ecosystems are destroyed.D.Ecosystem protection is as important as diversity protection.(2)What does the underlined word "ecocide" in paragraph 2 mean?
Because of the difference, the antibiotic molecule does not attach properly to the enzyme, and therefore does not affect it. That one E. coli cell will survive, and since all of its neighbors are dead, it can reproduce and take over the petri dish. There is now a strain of E. coli ...
It’s likely that myopia didn’t affect as many people in the past as it does now. Handley said the late creation of nearsighted glasses suggests that treating the small number of people with myopia wasn’t regarded as a priority and that people could have gotten by with this condition by...
Telemetry has since been used for things like monitoring weather and tracking wildlife, and it's even used to monitor the occupants and equipment on the International Space Station (ISS) [sources: Llewellyn, TechTarget]. We have been living in the computer age since the middle of the 20th ...
The changes also encompass strengthening traditional institutional arrangements surrounding the sustainable use and management of forests, wildlife, communal land and water through collective action, and giving women a voice in that collectivism. Indeed, global food security is unlikely to be achieved in ...
Given the relative quantities of dumped garbage and that consumed by elephants, we assumed that their consumption did not significantly affect the composition of a garbage pile. In some cases, elephants remained at the garbage dump until dark, preventing garbage pile sampling. Some samples collected...