What are the survival adaptations of carnivores and herbivores? What do animals use to detect predator presence? Give an example of a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship. How could two species that prey on the same type of food survive in the...
Question: What are animals welfare issues, associated with transgenic pigs for Xenotransplantation? Xenotransplantation: Xenotransplantation is defined as the transplantation, insertion, or transfusion of live animal cells, tissue, or organs into a human recipient that would have an e...
Herbivores are animals that have adapted to eatautotrophs: organisms that can produce their own food, such as through light, water, or chemicals like carbon dioxide. Autotrophs include plants, algae, and some bacteria. Herbivores come in all shapes and sizes in the animal kingdom. They inclu...
Cenozoic mammalian herbivores from the Americas: Reconstructing ancient diets and terrestrial communities Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 31 (2000), pp. 33-59 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Manders et al., 1992 P.T. Manders, D.M. Richardson, P.H. Masson Is fynbos a stage in...
large mammalian herbivorespredatorsprey's behaviorThis chapter reviews the mechanisms underlying consumptive and nonヽonsumptive effects of predators on prey. It provides an overview of consumptive and nonヽonsumptive mechanisms, the current knowledge about their importance, and how they may interact. ...
The absence of terrestrial mammalian herbivores (Olech et al. 2011) and predators may present an advantage for alien species under the enemy release hypothesis. This may promote higher susceptibility of native biota to the introduction of any heterotrophic organisms, which may remain without control ...
As if egg-laying, nippleless nursing and electroreception in a mammalian species weren't enough for you to wrap your mind around, the platypus has one more curve ball to toss your way. The male platypus has a spur on either hind foot that excretes venom. Though females are also born wi...
Even-toed ungulates are a mammalian order with about 220 species. The main types of even-toed ungulates are pigs, peccaries, deer...
From a phylogenetic perspective, dogs are members of the mammalian order Carnivora (see Wang & Tedford, 2010, for a detailed evolutionary history of the dog). We will refer to them as being carnivorans, because the obvious word “carnivore” is ambiguous; it can be used to mean a member...
Why are Monotremes regarded as unique mammals? Which synapomorphy renders the mammalian clade monophyletic? That is, what characteristic appeared in the evolution of mammals that makes this group of species share a common ancestor, most likely with that characteristic. a. Presence of canine tooth...