Quotes About Habitat

In other words, Passer domesticus has become an urban species because it was already adapted to a lifestyle that, purely by accident, prepared it for the niches that we have created in cities. The urban environment offers conditions that happen to resemble one or more aspects of a species' way of living in pre-urban times. And it is those species that are pre-adapted to the novel niches in the city. They are the first to move in.

Quanto mais inabitável, mais o mundo fica povoado

Onde é que você vive? - perguntavam-lhe. - Eu não vivo, eu apenas moro - respondia invariavelmente.

She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.

There is precisely zero scientific evidence demonstrating wolves, unlike ourselves, have ever driven any species to extinction. Of course, no antiwolf advocate points to the unrestricted slaughter and habitat reduction, not by wolves but by humans, that speeded the demise of those great herds of bison, deer, and elk reported by Lewis and Clark.

Of course, no antiwolf advocate points to the unrestricted slaughter and habitat reduction, not by wolves but by humans, that speeded the demise of those great herds of bison, deer, and elk reported by Lewis and Clark.

Modern, well-documented research demonstrates that apex predators such as wolves play keystone roles in keeping prey populations healthy by culling the weak and infirm. They also keep ungulate numbers in balance with habitat; wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone resulted in a stunning transformation of overbrowsed, depleted river and stream corridors, to the benefit of many species, from aspens and cottonwoods to beaver to songbirds to cutthroat trout. An

says to me are upsetting. Extinction. This is what we talk of most. What happens to a species when you destroy its natural habitat, when you corrupt its essential nature and purpose—when you take its biological instincts and mandates and use

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

n the wake of catastrophes, fungal diversity helps restore devastated habitats. Evolutionary trends generally lead to increased bio-diversity. However, due to human activities we are losing many species before we can even identify them. In effect, as we lose species, we are experiencing devolution--turning back the clock on biodiversity, which is a slippery slope toward massive ecological collapse. The interconnectedness of life is an obvious truth that we ignore at our peril.

Small wonder, then, that Tranquillity, with its liberal banking laws, low income tax, the availability of blackhawks to charter, and an impartial habitat-personality which policed the interior to ensure a crime-free environment (essential for the peace of mind of the millionaires and billionaires who resided within), had prospered, becoming one of the Confederation's premier independent trading and finance centres.

Around them, the rest of the thirty-strong fleet was moving, spreading wide as they left the three habitats behind, assuming the broad circular formation that they would maintain for the next hundred thirty-seven light-years.

mammals and birds can live longer, if they don't get eaten

the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.