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Another example o f v ertebrates p referring alternative food sources to seeds in scats is shown in the relationship with non-fig fruit abundance.

Identifying scats by recovery of bile acids.

The actual likelihood of seeds b eing consumed in scats may b e i nfluenced by seed load, number of species, seed number, and availability of alternative food sources.

The most common explanation to identify the death of the lepidosaurs is by means of a predator that either regurgitated the bones in pellet form or in their scats.

The location of sleeping trees, fruit trees fed on by the gibbons, collected scats, and the extent of home ranges were plotted on maps of the study site.

Indeed, we still recorded seeds in scats up to 5 h after the initial appearance of seeds from the same plant and maximum gut retention times may be longer.

Could they not hymn sing from their scats?

The fewer the number of scats in a first-past-the-post system, by definition the less fair that system becomes.

There was the case in which proceedings were taken by three councillors whose scats had been wrongfully declared vacant by the council.

My complaint is rather that there are too few who have yet come forward for election and have secured scats on them.

Before you bring about any reform in regard to the electors you ought to make certain that a redistribution of scats is effected as rapidly as possible.

Other unusual matter observed in devil scats includes collars and tags of devoured animals, intact echidna spines, pencil, plastic and jeans.

The chance of each seed being found in the scat is obviously dependent o n whether the other seeds a re also found.

Such findings diverge from what was observed in the present study, where crustaceans were present in approximately 20% of scat samples analysed for each species.

Although juvenile scats may live in a freshwater environment, most adult scats prefer a brackish water environment.