Quotes About Habitat

Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Asian elephants have declined by fifty percent over the last three generations.

living in four parks in the state of Assam. A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.

number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago

Then the frogs around El Valle started to disappear.

Lowland gorillas have declined even faster;

We had lived in savannah for a million years. During that time the world got warm again and wetter, and some of the rain forest returned. But for us it was too late. By then we knew how to live only on the savannah. We could still climb trees, but we did not go back.

the zoologist Konrad Lorenz, whose studies of animal behavior (the best known is On Aggression) stressed Haeckel's notion that animal and habitat—including man and his environment—form a single unit

The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.

Under natural selection, species adapt to their environments. When the environment refers to a species' physical habitat, this seems simple enough. If a species lives in the Arctic, it had better evolve some warm fur. Under sexual selection, species adapt too, but they adapt to themselves. Females adapt to males, and males adapt to females. Sexual preferences adapt to the sexual ornaments avaliable, and sexual ornaments adapt to sexual preferences.

There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand. There is more life in a dead tree than in a living tree: around 2,000 animal species in the UK rely on dead or dying wood for their survival.

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these nocturnal delights remain elusive, and thus are still a thrill.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.

The human habitat continues to be dominated by individuals with characteristics decidedly different from the human contingent observed inside Rama II and at the Node.

People don't realize how amazing elephants are.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

But in that space were crammed humans, not animals.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

A house is a machine for living in.

I'm not really into houses, well other than I'd just like to have somewhere to live.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.