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The tropical species Archegozetes longisetosus is one of the strongest animals in the world, relative to its mass ( 100 μg ): It lifts up to 1, 182 times its own weight, over five times more than would be expected of such a minute animal.
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Several hundred frog species in adaptive radiations ( e. g., Eleutherodactylus, the Pacific Platymantines, the Australo-Papuan microhylids, and many other tropical frogs ), however, do not need any water for breeding in the wild.
Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.
The subfamily includes 59 genera and approximately 800 species from temperate and tropical regions worldwide.
Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters.
This is because Canoidea tend to range in the temperate and subarctic biomes, although Mustelidae and Procyonidae have a few tropical species.
This is because these species tend to range in tropical habitats, although a few species do inhabit temperate and subarctic habitats.
Cucurbitales form an important component of tropical forests from low to montane forests with greater representation in terms of number of species.
The order Cucurbitales in the eurosid I clade comprises almost 2600 species in 109 or 110 genera in 8 families, tropical and temperate, of very different sizes, morphology, and ecology.
Further analysis of the coral extinctions shows that approximately 98 % of colonial species, ones that inhabit warm, shallow tropical waters, became extinct.
The Cucurbitaceae are an important family consisting of approximately 125 genera and 960 species, mainly in regions tropical and subtropical.
The island, home to rare species of wildlife, is considered by many as a beautiful, unspoiled tropical preserve.
Climate change devastated tropical rainforests causing the extinction of many plant and animal species.
For example, one population of a species of tropical lizards ( Tropidurus hispidus ) has a flattened body relative to the main populations that live in open savanna.
The oldest known primate-like mammal species, the Plesiadapis, came from North America, but they were widespread in Eurasia and Africa during the tropical conditions of the Paleocene and Eocene.
The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species — lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or " bush babies " of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World monkeys, catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans.
Forests sometimes contain many tree species only within a small area ( as in tropical rain and temperate deciduous forests ), or relatively few species over large areas ( e. g., taiga and arid montane coniferous forests ).
There are about 255 species in North America, but the majority of species live in the tropical regions of the world.
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Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.
In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.
The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.
The Botanical Garden of Acapulco is a tropical garden located on lands owned by the Universidad Loyola del Pacifico.
Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.
The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.
The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do well in tropical environments since they require a dry resting period between leaf growth and flower spike production.
The northern and southern temperate zones have a flora distinct from that of the continent generally, which is tropical.
The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.
The climbing plants in the tropical forests are exceedingly luxuriant and the undergrowth or " bush " is extremely dense.
Sole usage of the tropical zodiac is inconsistent with references made, by the same astrologers, to the Age of Aquarius which is dependent on when the vernal point enters the constellation of Aquarius.
So, a taiga or boreal forest is at the mercy of whatever abiotic stress factors may come along, while tropical zones are much less susceptible to such stressors.
The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic Thus, this action is twofold ; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids ( particularly harmine in ayahuasca ) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.
Travelling in remote areas in northern Australia is not advisable during the wet season ( November to April ), as heavy tropical downpours can quickly make dirt roads impassable.
The climate in Brunei is tropical equatorial and humid subtropical at higher altitudes with heavy rainfall.
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