(1) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
(2) Homocysteine thiolactone metabolism differs in guinea pig, an herbivorous species, and in rat, an omnivorous species.
(3) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
(4) These specializations may be interpreted as adaptation toward a more herbivorous-frugivorous diet.
(5) The results are discussed in relation to the digestive physiology and feeding habits of the various species, and there is an examination of the feasibility of using linear regressions of crude protein in the diet v. N in the faecal DM for evaluating the quality of the diets selected by free-ranging East African herbivores.
(6) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(7) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(8) Herbivores often have a choice between poorer food that can be eaten fast and richer food that can only be eaten more slowly.
(9) Most of the parasites in the herbivorous species were trichurids and strongylids, whereas most of the parasites in the carnivorous species were ascarids.
(10) Potassium secretion by the nasal salt glands of the herbivorous desert lizard Sauromalus obesus was determined in vivo by a new technique.
(11) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(12) Of the lactose-free milk substitutes for children now available, it is recommended that Pregestimil, Glucose Nutramigen and particularly CFI be used for very young orphan marsupial herbivores (especially kangaroos), as these are both lactose- and sucrose-free.
(13) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
(14) Diversity of dietary intake with respect to plant food and animal protein is only one-third of the maximum divergence between strict herbivores and carnivores.
(15) All significant properties of the herbivore trophic level, including biomass, consumption and productivity, are significantly correlated with primary productivity across a broad range of terrestrial ecosystems.
(16) Optimal diet choices are predicted for herbivores with particular gut structures.
(17) The study of the aorta and coronary arteries from 25 chamois shot in their mountain natural habitat allowed the observation that this animal is more exposed to liposclerotic lesions than other wild herbivorous mammals which live in the plain or at low altitudes.
(18) Grazing herbivores (usually sheep or cattle) are the definitive hosts.
(19) Current estimates are that VFA contribute approximately 70% to the caloric requirements of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle, approximately 10% for humans, and approximately 20-30% for several other omnivorous or herbivorous animals.
(20) Differing strategies of adaptation to plant defenses may partly account for the great diversity of insect herbivores.
Insectivore
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insectivora.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second molars of insectivorous species were found to parallel closely those of leaf-eating species.
(2) Of 142 rodents and 3 insectivores studied, 37 (26%) were seropositive for IFA.
(3) These species approach condylarths and leptictid and erinaceoid insectivores in structure.
(4) Golgi impregnation of projection cells and most local-circuit neurons of layers III-VI suggests a relatively well-developed isocortex in this insectivore.
(5) Regular chewing was studied in the specialized Malagasy insectivore Tenrec ecaudatus with the aid of precisely correlated electromyography of the main adductors, digastrics, and two hyoid muscles and cineradiography for which metallic markers were placed in the mandibles, tongue, and hyoid bone.
(6) Although the final hosts of these species of Sarcocystis are not known, it is quite possible that man, monkeys, and perhaps the moonrat (an insectivore) may serve as common intermediate hosts for one or several species of Sarcocystis.
(7) Linear regression analyses against log body weight were performed on these data (log translated), along with data (except SCA) from the literature for insectivores and primates.
(8) The data were expressed in terms of progression indices which estimate how many times a given brain center is greater than that of a Basal Insectivore of the same body weight.
(9) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
(10) Contrary to what one may expect from an insectivore, CP smell pleasant and faintly of honey.
(11) In insectivores and chiroptera the loops of the inner three-dimensional capillary network are stretched along the longitudinal axis of the organ.
(12) Methodological difficulties relating to feeding trials on first generation offspring of insectivorous small mammals caught in the wild are described.
(13) Thus, the VPo of man is more than 9 times larger than that of isoponderous average prosimians, and more than 230 times larger than that of isoponderous "basal' insectivores.
(14) The nasopharyngeal duct of Tupaia glis was studied and compared with other Primates and some Insectivores.
(15) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(16) It was used to establish that the dark gut contents of individuals of five genera of insectivorous midges (Ceratopogonidae) was not blood.
(17) The present investigation reports light and electron microscopical aspects of the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) of the insectivorous bat Scotophilus heathi.
(18) From 1989-1991, the concentrations of heavy metals and selenium were studied in the feathers of fledgling cattle egrets Bubulcus ibis, a terrestrially-feeding insectivore, from New York and Delaware in the northeastern United States, from Puerto Rico, and from Egypt.
(19) The high frequency harmonics of the male cricket's natural calling song overlap the lower frequency range used by insectivorous bats (10-20 kHz) and are loud enough to elicit avoidance behavior in a flying female as she closely approaches a singing male (Fig.
(20) In tupaias, rat-sized mammals with phylogenetic affinities to insectivores and primates, gallstones can be induced by diet.