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Example sentences for "small mammals"

  • During the Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition Mr. Heller devoted most of his time to the gathering and preparation of small mammals.

  • That the Expedition obtained a very large and representative collection of small mammals is owing in a great measure to the efforts of Mr. Edmund Heller, our companion in the field.

  • Four of these were collected also from other small mammals living in the same habitat as this vole.

  • Nine other species of small mammals occur in the same habitat with the prairie vole, and frequently use its runways.

  • Annual reports of the North American census of small mammals.

  • A comparison of certain methods of measuring ranges of small mammals.

  • At present there is a poverty of knowledge concerning methods for determining the precise home ranges of small mammals.

  • Revised sampling procedure for the North American census of small mammals (NACSM).

  • The larger lizards are generally so round and plump-bodied they may very properly be mounted with tow and clay legs, and a body-filling of clean and soft chopped tow, the same as small mammals.

  • Small skins should be scraped with the round end of a small bone-scraper, which has a sharp chisel edge, but the large ones must be scraped with a small-toothed skin-scraper such as is used on small mammals.

  • The fundamental principles to be observed in skinning a large mammal are, in general, precisely the same as those which govern the same process in small mammals, and which have been recorded in detail in the preceding chapter.

  • Its food consists principally of small mammals, young birds, and lizards, but the very young eat insects and worms.

  • It feeds chiefly on small mammals, occasionally on birds and their eggs, and lizards.

  • Although to a certain extent crepuscular or nocturnal, the Cat-snake is often seen hunting in the daytime, its food consisting almost exclusively of lizards, rarely of small mammals.

  • Food: This owl hunts extensively during the day and feeds on small mammals, birds, and insects (Bent 1938).

  • Although the population of the cotton rat decreased slightly immediately after the wet period, this decrease was insignificant when compared with the drop in population level of other species of small mammals on the same area.

  • Reactions of small mammals to live-traps and the effects of prebaiting were described by Chitty and Kempson (1949).

  • Population density, life span and mortality rates of small mammals in the bluegrass meadow and bluegrass field associations of southern Michigan.

  • Prebaiting of small mammals and a new design of a live trap.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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