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Journey North: Monarch Butterfly
Mexico that the monarchs are on their way. After living off their fat reserves all winter, tens of millions of monarch butterflies head northward. With just a few weeks ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Use of land by polar bears during ... may be forced on shore for extended periods and rely on fat reserves deposited the previous spring for survival. In such a situation ... Many of the organochlorine pollutants are lipophilic or "fat loving" and bond tightly to fat molecules. Polar bears are particularly vulnerable to ...
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Gold Seal - The Story of Salmon
For the fish, the oil provides the necessary fat reserves to migrate thousands of miles for spawning. During their life cycle, wild salmon carry nutrients ...
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Polar Bear - Defenders of Wildlife
... to eat a lot in the summer and fall in order to build up sufficient fat reserves for surviving the denning period, during which time they give birth to one-pound cubs ...
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Bats
An intensive inventory of potential hibernation sites in B.C. is still required. When bats ...
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EEK! - Critter Corner - The Barn Owl
Typically they hunt along uncultivated field edges, fence rows, and wetland edges. On average, barn ...
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Feeding
If a female does not have adequate fat reserves, she cannot reproduce—it’s that simple. Since reproductive cycling in Gilas begins well before ...
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Health
Egg production constitutes a tremendous energy investment and females use up significant fat reserves in the process. Females may go off feed several weeks prior to oviposition. Males frequently ...
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Earlham College: Biological Diversity -- Myotis sodalis
When aroused from hibernation, they can expend 10 to 30 days of these limited reserves, leaving them without the proper fat reserves (University of ...
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Time to Krill? crucial antarctic ecosystem threatened
Antarctic winter. They do not seem to build up large fat reserves, so must either use some food available under the ice such as the algae which ... -floor or the other animals in the water or utilise some internal store other than fat. Evidence for the latter comes from laboratory studies in which Antarctic krill were found to ...
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