VetCOMPASS The Veterinary Electronic
Animal Record for Disease Surveillance in Companion Animals
Provides accurate information about adoptable animals, insuring webbased list (PetFinder) of adoptable animals is kept up - to - date, reviewing all adoption agreements and
animal records for accuracy and completeness prior to release of animal.
Not exact matches
The
animal was expected to break the world
record for the size of a bunny.
I'm not going to indulge in this, but
for the
record, since it's been brought up oftentimes, I believe «human consciousness» is evidence that we are not
animals in the literal sense.
There's no evidence of a global flood in the geological
record, the logistics of getting
animals from and returning them to the then - unknown Americas and Australia, there is not enough water to cover all land (i.e. Everest) and if there were where did it go, the flood would have killed all life on earth that was not in the Ark, the issue of food
for all
animals, the issue of predation.
last I head the fossil
record is a big joke... no transpecies fossils
for all of the billions of instances of
animals that have supposedly evolved from one species to another...
Overseen by
Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU) researcher Matt Wolcott, the project is intensively genotyping and collecting accurate
records for male and female reproduction, growth and tropical adaptation traits in Kaiuroo stud bulls and females during the next three years.
Integrating
animal welfare requirements strengthens the promise made to customers, and streamlines the process of
record keeping and reporting
for livestock producers.
Ani - Mates are talking stuffed
animals that bring over 30 preloaded, professionally
recorded children's Bible stories to vivid life
for young listeners.
Must watch out
for men who: are felons or have a police
record of some sort, are gay (not that there is anything wrong with that if they are open about it), abuse drugs, abuse other women, abuse alcohol, abuse helpless
animals and children, are prone to psychopathy, hate women in general and / or are excessively critical of women, have severe personality disorders such as narcissism, are control freaks, are non communicative, are unable to commit to one woman, are pedophiles, are sex addicts, etc..
Sometimes a transitional object like a blanket, stuffed
animal, soft photo album of family members or talking picture frame (
record your voices and reassurances into it) can also be helpful
for toddlers.
Since Jan. 1, 2016 there have been 389 exotic
animal complaints in the Big Apple — and nearly half of those have been
for keeping roosters, public
records show.
There were also no
records of veterinary exams
for the
animals on file to show that the euthanizations were warranted.
The Cambrian explosion looks abrupt in the fossil
record, but the surprising message from evo devo is that all the genes
for building big, complex
animal bodies long predated the appearance of those bodies.
Folks willing to take their eyes off the skies
for a moment can
record what plants and
animals are doing around eclipse time using the California Academy of Sciences» iNaturalist app.
In the Feb. 18 SN: Anniversary of a celebrity supernova, readying
for the next stellar explosion, human -
animal chimeras, hottest year on
record, molecules tied in knots, cancer results don't reproduce and more.
Globally, there is an outstanding ratio of one endemic Laparocerus
for each 35.7 km2; a
record not beaten by any other genus of plant or
animal in Macaronesia.
The units
recorded the location and temperature of the
animals every 15 minutes
for two years.
As such, they were able to use fossil
records to assess the baseline extinction risk
for marine
animals, including sharks, whales and dolphins, as well as small sedentary organisms such as snails, clams and corals.
These manufactured altercations —
for example, playing a threat vocalization by a high - ranking female followed by the submission squeal of a lower - ranking
animal — were then played through hidden speakers while the scientists
recorded the reactions of listening baboons.
Based on fossil
records, scientists estimate that normal extinction rates average just one lost
animal for every million species per year.
They then came up with revised estimates of the branching dates
for organisms with no fossil
record, including the first
animals.
«So much of our study of the fossil
record is about filling in the gaps in our knowledge of how
animals came to look as they do or live where they are, and Diandongosuchus does that
for phytosaurs.
A clam has smashed the
record for the oldest living
animal.
He is a recipient of the Dallas Safari Club Africa Big Game Award
for his collection of African elephants, buffalo, lions and leopards, and the Outstanding Hunting Achievement Award
for his 30 - year quest to collect of all 30 North American «big game»
animals, of which 15 are «
records class» (very big).
This involved watching one
animal at a time,
recording how long it spent with its head down feeding versus head up, scanning
for predators.
The electrodes allowed them to
record the activity of large groups of individual neurons as the
animals moved their hands and reached
for food.
They also hold the
record for celibacy among
animals: All 460 known species of bdelloids consist exclusively of egg - laying females that have essentially been cloning themselves
for 100 million years.
His team put radio collars on the
animals, injected them with water with heavy hydrogen and oxygen atoms so these elements could be traced,
recorded the
animals» behaviors, and collected their feces to check
for how fast those atoms were used, an indicator of metabolic rate.
In one experiment, Simonet noticed that puppies romped
for joy when they heard
recordings of these sounds; in another, she was able to show that these same sounds helped to calm dogs in an
animal shelter.
In the lab, they adapted the standard experimental technique
for studying place cells: implanting electrodes directly into a rat's hippocampus and
recording from them as the
animal runs freely in a large box (see «A sense of place»).
Because the olinguito was new to science, it was imperative
for the scientists to
record every aspect of the
animal.
The investigator, Bengt Gerdin, professor emeritus of surgery at Uppsala University, examined six papers about the patients and one on
animal tests of the procedure and found multiple problems that he deemed serious enough to constitute misconduct, including inaccurate descriptions of the condition of patients at the time of publication and stating that ethical permission had been obtained
for the work although there is none on
record.
Scientists presenting at the Society
for Experimental Biology annual conference in Glasgow
recorded the bug and analyzed its volume compared to various other loud
animals.
At least twenty - five plants and
animals observed during the survey are new
records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.
For her postdoc she wanted to continue with the same line of research but with
recordings in living
animals — a technique she had never done.
The trio made
recordings of the call, along with the sound of hunters calling out the Yao words
for «honeyguide... honey» and another
animal sound.
After giving the dunnarts a month to get used to their diet, the team continued the diets
for a further 19 days and
recorded the length and times of the
animals» torpor over this period, using nests installed with temperature sensors and video recorders.
Hill said the
animal lived 12,600 to 12,800 years ago, and tied a specimen from north - central Wisconsin
for the youngest
record of the stag - moose.
The collars
recorded each
animal's location every second
for 14 days while they moved, ate, played, and just hung out together (as in the photo above).
«It is almost impossible
for us to know exactly where any one group of
animals evolved because the fossil
record is always very incomplete,» Hu says.
The global crisis
for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled
animals and plants rising at
record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.
Now, they may have an answer: After analyzing
recordings of the elk bugling calls, researchers discovered that they actually comprise two parts — the high - pitched shrieking that can reach frequencies above 2000 hertz (heard in the video above) and a simultaneous, lower - pitched call around 145 hertz, a more typical frequency
for an elk - sized
animal.
The researchers made use of howls
recorded from both captive and wild
animals, from Australia and India, to Europe and the United States, creating a database of 6,000 howls that was whittled down to 2,000
for the study.
Scientists have
recorded cases of adult chimps apparently caring
for fellow
animals before they die, and chimp mothers have been observed carrying around the bodies of infants
for days after their death — although scientists have debated whether the latter behavior represents true grieving or if the mothers didn't realize their infants were really dead.
THE firing of every neuron in an
animal's body has been
recorded, live,
for the first time.
From their examination of the historical
record, the authors argue that the extant lion and cheetah populations of India are not native but the results of
animals imported by royalty
for sport.
A study of 2.39 million lactation
records from 1.49 million dairy cows showed that cows produce significantly more milk
for daughters than
for sons across lactation, said Barry Bradford, associate professor in K - State's Department of
Animal Sciences and Industry.
There was a fundamental breakdown of basic procedures, including «unacceptable and inadequate
record - keeping,» an instance in which
animals were not euthanized on time, and questions about how federal grants were billed
for blood draws.
For instance, palaeontologists had been excited about prints found in Greenland, dating back some 220 million years, which suggested that the
animal making them had a reversed back toe — a feature not
recorded in theropod dinosaurs of that time but common in their descendants, the birds.