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WILDLIFE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All living things (except people) that are undomesticated
Example:
chemicals could kill all the wildlife
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("wildlife" is a kind of...):
life (living things collectively)
Context examples:
There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)
Enjoy wildlife from a distance.
(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)
After the plains of southern Kenya experienced a severe drought in 2009 that took a terrible toll on wildlife, researchers looked at how 50 wild baboons coped with the drought, and whether the conditions they faced in infancy played a role.
(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)
CWD has been gradually spreading in U.S. wildlife and is now found in 25 states as well as in Canada.
(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)
And new research using NASA satellite data shows that tracking vegetation from space can help wildlife managers predict when does will give birth to fawns.
(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)
"How do we design wildlife reserves? Do we make many small ones, or fewer big ones, or do we make corridors?"
(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)
The authors recommend that toy companies and others who use endangered species as trademarks donate some of their profits to wildlife conservation.
(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)
They concluded that the Arctic tundra is a major sink for mercury, a toxin that affects the neurological and immune systems of Arctic wildlife and is passed along to indigenous peoples who rely on subsistence hunting for their food.
(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)
Oregon State University scientists led an international study that provides a road map as conservation managers consider the effects of forest edges on wildlife in setting up reserves.
(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)
