If the alarm indicates a hawk diving toward the colony, all the prairie dogs in its flight path dive into their holes, while those outside the flight path stand and watch.

If in captivity, prairie dogs can live eight years or more.

If any animal has a system of laws regulating the body politic, it is certainly the prairie dog.

As characterized by Adler, Marshall argued that " the United States did have the power to create such legislation ; that Congress was well within its rights ; and that the Act was constitutional "; and, further, " If Congress possessed plenary powers to legislate for the protection of the public domain, then it had to take into account all possibility for such protection ", including protection of migratory birds, " these natural guardians " against " hostile insects, which, if not held in check ... would result in the inevitable destruction " of " both prairie and forest lands ".

If it helps, the flower was in an artificial / restored prairie in Western Michigan.

If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learned to associate the sound of the bell with food.

If there are — if, for instance, there are possible but non-actual dogs ( dogs of some non-actual but possible species, perhaps ) or nonexistent beings ( like Sherlock Holmes, perhaps ), then these things might also figure in the extensions of various concepts and expressions.

Abu Usamah at Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham defended his words to followers by saying " If I were to call homosexuals perverted, dirty, filthy dogs who should be murdered, that's my freedom of speech, isn't it?

If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being, or to make even sled dogs very ill.

If it is seen outside the zoo on a stretch of greensward regularly used for walking dogs, then of course it is more likely to be a dog than a lion.

If proper terminology is observed in manufacture and marketing ( it often is not ), " frankfurters " are more mildly seasoned, " hot dogs " more robustly so.

If the starter motor or battery failed, the 2CV had the option of hand-cranking, the jack handle serving as starting handle through dogs on the front of the crankshaft at the centre of the fan.

If trained well, they can be excellent guard dogs, although this particular trait should not be encouraged.

If a manufacturer produces two types of hot dogs, " wieners " tend to contain pork and are blander, while " franks " tend to be all beef and more strongly seasoned.

If humans approach the nest both parents may engage in a distraction display but known ground predators ( including domestic dogs ) are physically attacked almost immediately.

If but few readers know how constantly the blunt sententious utterances of this character are reappearing, not on the stage alone, but in the novel and even in poetry, it is because a play whose motive is monstrous and intolerable can only live in a monstrous and intolerable state of society ; it is because Wycherley's genius was followed by Nemesis, who always dogs the footsteps of the denier of literary art.

If they are year-round outdoor dogs, letting them play in a baby pool filled with cold water in summer keeps them cool.

If there are less than six dogs per sex entered, only one CACIL is provided ; if there are less than six starters per breed, the CACIL is not given.

If they inherit the characteristics from the golden retriever parent, goldendoodles can make good bird dogs.

If these dogs are killed in the line of duty they get the same honors as their human partners.

If they do not die of their wounds, losing dogs may be electrocuted, drowned, or hanged.

If things don't look right, all dogs on Earth will be recalled to Sirius 7.

If the captives eluded him, Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days, General Zaroff would let the man go, but no one had eluded him that long thus far.

If cats and dogs could vote I'd shake hands with them.

If allowed, many institutions have rigorous requirements for therapy dogs.

If a classification system has been trained to distinguish between cats, dogs and rabbits, a confusion matrix will summarize the results of testing the algorithm for further inspection.

If I'd been careful it never woulda '' -- he stopped abruptly.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If we wait until children are in junior high or high school, we will never manage it.

If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

If the mettle which Ellen exhibits has a bit of theatrical dross in it, never mind ; ;

If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

If we try to choose an element from each set, then, because X is infinite, our choice procedure will never come to an end, and consequently, we will never be able to produce a choice function for all of X.

If there was realism in the theater, there would never be a third act.

If he told others about it, her reputation would be ruined, as was his after a similar " indiscretion ," even though he was never prosecuted.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

If the program hasn't halted yet, then it never will, since its contribution to the halting probability would affect the first N bits.

If the possibility of adding the empty string to a language is added to the strings recognized by the noncontracting grammars ( which can never include the empty string ) then the languages in these two definitions are identical.

If a state is not observable, the controller will never be able to determine the behaviour of an unobservable state and hence cannot use it to stabilize the system.

:” If we observe the totality of Pissarro ’ s work, we find there, despite fluctuations, not only an extreme artistic will, never belied, but also an essentially intuitive, purebred art.

" Screwattack. com listed the Duck Hunt dog as the " Biggest Douchebag in gaming " and said that " If you've never played Duck Hunt, you just don't understand.

If Alice collaborates with Paul Erdős on one paper, and with Bob on another, but Bob never collaborates with Erdős himself, then Bob is given an Erdős number of 2, as he is two steps from Erdős.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

If implemented using remainders of Euclidean division rather than subtractions, Euclid's algorithm computes the GCD of large numbers efficiently: it never requires more division steps than five times the number of digits ( base 10 ) of the smaller integer.

If you have never seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

Furthermore, the Mohist philosophical canon of the Mojing, compiled by the followers of Mozi ( c. 470-c. 390 BC ), provides the earliest known attempt to describe inertia: " The cessation of motion is due to the opposing force ... If there is no opposing force ... the motion will never stop.