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In the wild, foxes can live for up to 10 years, but most foxes only live for 2 to 3 years due to hunting, road accidents and diseases.
Among the most notable animals in the archipelago that are found: austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds.
Lombardy counts many protected areas: the most important are the Stelvio National Park ( the largest Italian natural park ), with typically alpine wildlife: red deer, roe-deer, ibex, chamois, foxes, ermine and also golden eagles ; and the Ticino Valley Natural Park, instituted in 1974 on the Lombard side of the Ticino River to protect and conserve one of the last major examples of fluvial forest in Northern Italy.
The species also displays behaviours uncharacteristic of foxes, such as living in packs while most other fox species are solitary.
The most important non-insect animals that are typically involved in the process include larger scavengers, such as: coyotes, dogs, wolves, foxes, rats, crows and vultures.
Red foxes and coyotes readily predate colonies that they can access, the later being the only known species to hunt adult pelicans ( which are too large for most bird predators to subdue ).
On the mainland, where it is threatened by most introduced predatory species such as foxes, it requires dense ground cover for refuge.
Tree species that can be found here include sapodilla and mahogany with most animal species being small mammals such as armadillos, squirrels, rabbits, opossums and foxes.
Whereas most terrier breeds have only to bolt their quarry, or to mark it by baying, the Lakeland must be able to kill the foxes in their lair.
Typical of most Canid species, Cape foxes will mate for life.
At the 1945 general election, aged 25, Nutting was elected as Member of Parliament for Melton a constituency in the heart of famous hunting country and it was said of it that " most of the voters are foxes !".
Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati are perhaps the most ubiquitous gastrointestinal worms ( helminths ) of domestic dogs and cats and foxes.
In most adult dogs, cats and foxes, the full lifecycle does not occur, but instead second stage larvae encyst after a period of migration through the body.
In Newfoundland, red foxes ( Vulpes vulpes ) were the most frequent predator, though coyote ( Canis latrans ) and other American marten were also responsible for some deaths.
However, Jane Thornback and Martin Jenkins suggested in their book that the vegetation in the main part of its range remained intact, with little evidence of cattle or rabbit grazing and point to cats and foxes as the most likely cause of the extinction of the lesser bilby.
According to the Fort Worth Gazette newspaper of 1888, the most that could be said for the area was that it was good for hunting foxes.
Among the true foxes, their skulls are the most specialised in the direction of carnivory ; They are longer in their condylobasal length and in mandible and cheek tooth length than those of hill foxes.
Bear, moose, foxes, coyotes, beaver, snowshoe hare and red squirrels are found most often in the mixedwood stands compared to the aspen forests and spruce forests.
Most ground-nesting bird species ( Aleutian Cackling Goose, Rock Ptarmigan ) and most burrow-nesting seabirds ( storm-petrels, Ancient Murrelets, Cassin's Auklets, Tufted Puffins ) were extirpated by foxes ; Semisopochnoi Island is currently in the early stages of recovery.
They also have their own language, although Damien and Gemma spend most of the series speaking in Zenophonian-a language which is foreign to them, and results in the two foxes mispronouncing words such as ' us ' as ' huz '.
Pampas foxes are more omnivorous than most other canids, and have a varied and opportunistic diet.

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I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
It forms the core of many, perhaps most, problems of psychotherapy.
This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.
Certainly, most continue to lack a certain warmth in communication with other people, but many adjust to school, even college, to jobs and even to marriage and parenthood.
`` The American press clamored for many days promising President Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems confronting the United States.
For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.
The electric gadget is most helpful when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.
Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.
She'd found it by luck most likely but she hadn't said anything and we didn't know how long ago it'd been or how many other ones she'd found, saying nothing.
In this, as in so many aspects of our development assistance activities, the incentive effects of the posture we take are the most important ones.
If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.
Out of many factors which might be cited, five are most important: 1.
But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..
But they deny the values of the city -- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the `` melting pot '' which gave off so many of the most admirable American qualities.
It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts' Route 128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements, or from the exploitation of patents which grant at least a partial monopoly.
The point is that many of the most impressive developments in the arts nowadays are aberrant, idiosyncratic.
It is hardly accidental, therefore, that many of his most vivid figures do suggestive or eccentric things with their hands.
In a general way, psychiatrists were able to establish on a wide basis what many of them had always felt -- that the most telling cues in psychotherapy are acoustic, that such things as stress and nagging are transmitted by sound alone and not necessarily by words.
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
It is also important to realize that many girls are born without a hymen or at most only a tiny trace of one ; ;
It is far more difficult in many communities to obtain admission to an apprentice program which involves union approval than to get into the most selective medical school in the nation.

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