The animal fossil record from this period is sparse, possibly because animals had yet to evolve hard shells, which make for easier fossilization.

Though the novel is sparse in style, it covers a number of topics: personal shame, the subjugation of women, a changing country, animal rights, and romantic poetry and its symbolism.

While attendance for this first serious attempt to create a " funny animal fandom " convention was sparse at 65 persons, it was enough to encourage the Californians to attempt a full fledged furry convention next year.

The fur is lightly ticked with black guard hairs, but these are so sparse that have little effect on the visible coloration of the animal.

In a public display situation, the audience's attention is focused on the animal, rather than the trainer ; therefore the discriminative stimulus is generally gestural ( a hand sign ) and sparse in nature.

John Arne Sæterøy ( born May 16, 1965 in Molde ), better known by the pen name Jason, is a Norwegian cartoonist, known for his sparse drawing style and silent, anthropomorphic animal characters.

They will also gnaw on bones, antlers, and turtle shells – likely as a source of minerals sparse in their normal diet.

These cultural centers typically contain a burial mound and a geometric earthwork complex that covers ten to hundreds of acres and sparse settlements ; evidence of large resident populations is lacking at the monument complexes.

Metal grave gifts are sparse, but there are numerous hoards ( e. g. Kopaniewo, Pomerania ) that contain rich metalwork, both bronze and gold ( hoard of Eberswalde, Brandenburg ).

They contain abundant chondrules, sparse matrix ( 10-15 % of the rock ), few refractory inclusions, and variable amounts of Fe-Ni metal and troilite ( FeS ).

Settlements are sparse, and these normally just contain small clusters pits.

Telephone system: domestic: good service in north but sparse in south ; domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations ( 20 additional domestic earth stations are planned )

Its coverage of the 1991 August coup enriched sparse domestic coverage of the event and drew in a wide audience from throughout the region.

Most domestic pigs have rather sparse hair covering on their skin, although woolly coated breeds, such as the Mangalitsa, are raised.

A species may become functionally extinct when only a handful of individuals survive, which cannot reproduce due to poor health, age, sparse distribution over a large range, a lack of individuals of both sexes ( in sexually reproducing species ), or other reasons.

" Ecological networks, especially mutualistic networks, are generally very heterogeneous, consisting of areas with sparse links among species and distinct areas of tightly linked species.

Some of these genera boast a great many species, though remains are generally sparse.

Despite its wide range, the species had a sparse distribution and was never abundant.

The most abundant tree species is Sessile Oak ( Quercus petraea ), the shrub layer is very sparse and the ground flora includes Bracken, Bilberry and a variety of mosses.

Hominid populations were sparse at any given time, but the span of time over which these species lived is immense.

The other species, Saharan myrtle M. nivellei, is restricted to the Tassili n ' Ajjer mountains in southern Algeria and the Tibesti Mountains in Chad, where it occurs in small areas of sparse relict woodland near the centre of the Sahara Desert ; it is listed as an endangered species.

Parts of the Illinois River watershed have sparse vegetation including Jeffrey pine and oak and ceanothus species that grow in serpentine soils.

Its current very sparse population is one more serious threat to the species, as it only has two key sites which can be deemed viable.

Despite its sparse vegetation, the atoll is known as the breeding ground of a number of bird species.

Natural vegetation is sparse in the region and poor in the number of species.

The nomination for the two Wildlife Sanctuaries Thung Yai Naresuan and Huai Kha Khaeng to be a World Heritage Site lists some 120 species of mammal, 400 birds, 96 reptiles, 43 amphibiens and 113 species of fish, but research on the biodiversity in the sanctuaries is sparse.

Although most of the mountainous western region is forested, most of the remaining areas of the parish are populated with smaller species of herbaceous bushes, trees and pasturelands, until the Ponta de São Lourenço where vegetation is limited to sparse low-lying grasses.

The sparse woodlands of widely scattered western junipers and lodgepole pines are interrupted by patches of montaine chaparral species such as Pinemat Manzanita, Huckleberry Oak, and Mountain Pride Penstemon clinging to the expanses of barren rock.

Large emergent trees, reaching up to 50 m tall, puncture a mostly continuous but uneven canopy layer of predominantly Annonaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Olacaceae, Scytopetalaceae and Verbenaceae trees at about 15 to 25 m. The understory layer is quite dense with both lianas and small trees ( dominated by Rubiaceae species ), while the herbaceous layer ( mainly Acanthaceae, Araceae, Commelinaceae, Graminae, Marantaceae, Rubiaceae, and Zingiberaceae ) is mostly sparse.

Since some populations and species of Phodopus, such as P. campbelli, inhabit areas with sparse human population and little potential for agriculture, they have little interaction with humans.

The flowers are small, usually white, produced on sparse panicles up to 120 cm long ; in some species the panicle also bears plantlets, which take root on touching the ground.

The Edelman algorithm works equally well for sparse and non-sparse data, since it is based on the compressibility ( rank deficiency ) of the Fourier matrix itself rather than the compressibility ( sparsity ) of the data.

Painted artwork during the Tang period pertained the effects of an idealized landscape environment, with sparse amount of objects, persons, or activity, as well as monochromatic in nature ( example: the murals of Price Yide's tomb in the Qianling Mausoleum ).

Most everyday files are relatively ' sparse ' in an information entropy sense, and thus, most lossless algorithms a layperson is likely to apply on regular files compress them relatively well.

It took its water from its own well situated under the brewery which is fed from the South Downs, and the yeast and ' liquor ' ( local water used for brewing ), coupled with the local brewing style, produce beers with a sparse head, quite dark in colour.

Rainfall is sparse, and most of Somalia has a semiarid-to-arid environment suitable only for the nomadic pastoralism practiced by well over half the population.

Auerbach contrasts Homer's attention to detail and foregrounding of the spatial, historical, as well as personal contexts for events to the Bible's sparse account, in which virtually all context is kept in the background or left outside of the narrative.

This situation most often occurs at the times of day when other traffic is sparse as well as when the small vehicle is coming from a direction that does not have a high volume of traffic.

Fishes in the Mackenzie River proper include the northern pike, some minnows, and lake whitefish, and the river's shores are lined with sparse vegetation like dwarf birch and willows, as well as numerous peat bogs.

Although the stadium's size enabled the Phillies to shatter previous attendance records, during the years the Phillies were not doing as well even crowds of 35, 000 looked sparse.

The technology is a Fixed Wireless Option, which has extremely low capital costs and is ideal for small start ups to scale, as well as for sparse rural areas.

In 1999, film critic Mike Emery wrote, " Kubrick's camerawork was well on the way to finding the fluid style of his later work, and the sparse, low-budget circumstances give the film a raw, urgent sort of look.

Republican Senate President David L. Williams asked Fletcher to include tax breaks for other businesses as well, but Fletcher insisted on a sparse legislative agenda.

Southern imports were sparse as well.

As well as sparse coat, the hairs are thin, straggly and contorted and there is brown exudate around the eyes and nose and on the chest and stomach.

Standard equipment was sparse, featuring a rear bench seat, heated rear window, small wheel centre wheel covers, as well as a flick wipe facility.

Harris ' Hawks live in sparse woodland and semi-desert, as well as marshes ( with some trees ) in some parts of their range ( Howell and Webb 1995 ), including mangrove swamps, as in parts of their South American range.

IGN awarded 7. 7 out of 10, highlighting the well presented package and cutscenes, graphically impressive ( whilst sparse ) landscapes, intuitive controls and the longevity of the multiplayer mode.

While she claims not to choose fictional settings because of their sparse usage by other writers, she has said, " I wouldn't dare do the Civil War, because it's so well known, every damn detail, it would be so stifling.

* Nested data parallelism: this feature offers the benefits of data parallelism, concise code that is easy to understand and debug, while being well suited for irregular algorithms, such as algorithms on trees, graphs or sparse matrices.

Adding to the controversy, E. Bica and collaborators concluded that the chance alignment of the four bright stars seen in the center of M73 as well as one other nearby star was highly unlikely, so M73 was probably a sparse open cluster.

He immediately commences his duties, but he is concerned about the unprofessional aspects of the business and their sparse offices, as well as the suspicious fact that the two Pinners have a distinctive gold filling in their teeth in the same place, suggesting that they might be the same man.

The so-called Mediterranean island around Rudbar and Manjil is conspicuous through its specific vegetation, natural as well as cultivated, i. e., its very sparse cypress ( q. v.

The sparse production and extremely well recorded nature of the album, combined with its song selection have made this album a favorite audiophile " demo " recording and as a result the album has recently been reissued on audiophile-grade 200g vinyl as well as SACD.