Sentences with phrase «well animal group»

We are building on that foundation with our new strategic business unit, PBI - Gordon Well Animal Group and are now able to provide more benefits to new and existing customers,» said Rick Blomquist, general manager of PBI - Gordon Corporation's Well Animal Group.

PBI - Gordon Well Animal Group, PBI - Gordon Corporation plans on continuing to expand its portfolio, actively pursuing organic product development, in licensing and acquisition opportunities.

PBI - Gordon Corporation has established the PBI - Gordon Well Animal Group (WAG), a new division that includes Lambert Kay, Trophy, Gordon's and PetAg brands, to offer a complete approach to animal healthcare and nutrition under one company portfolio.

Not exact matches

Darren Seifer, food consumption industry analyst for NPD Group, notes that most adults say the best protein sources are animals.

It gave us a new appreciation for the animals and the groups working to promote their well - being.»

This means that trivial human pleasures and comforts must indeed be sacrificed for the sake of another animal's well - being, or for that of a group of animals.

Furthermore, by being in groups (herds, colonies) through the gregarious instincts, the animal is better able to preserve its species compared to infra - animal forms of life.

This binds them together in larger organisms such as animals, and since these are internally related to one another as well, larger groupings too have an organic character.

We are social animals and must, when possible deny our selfish interests for the good of the group if we are to succeed.

Costco's decision follows discussions with animal welfare group Mercy For Animals about undercover video taken by the organization at a gestation crate pig confinement facility supplying pork to Costco stores, as well as after discussions with The HSUS.

His office had received well over 1000 contacts, of which some 300 had been generated by individuals rather than animal rights groups.

The best way to get involved and develop skills in the field of animal advocacy, is to join our national volunteer group the Action Network.

alright - on the one hand, we have a group of good but insecure people who want to show that humankind has dominion over the earth and must therefore not do or show anything that relates us with animals - no skin, no cleavage, no suckling children, must stay clean and prim and proper (don't talk about bodily functions, either) so as to show how civilized and advanced we really are compared to the wild.

This is the best way to corral small items like crayons and pens, Lego and other building toys, miniature plastic animals and dolls, craft supplies and all of the other messy, multi-pieced toys so beloved by this age group.

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Absent from that group are the animal rights groups that have fervently pushed for a total ban of the horse carriage industry, including New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, better known as NYCLASS.

The borough president insisted that he did not have all the details on the five probes into Mr. de Blasio's political nonprofits, his funneling cash into Democratic State Senate campaigns in 2014, his administration's decision to lift a deed restriction for a well - connected developer, on his acceptance of cash from potential straw donors in 2013 and into his relationship with animal rights groups dedicating to abolishing horse - driven carriages in Central Park.

His group assessed the animals for changes in body weight as well as potential toxicity to the liver, kidney, and blood cells — none of which was observed.

Sugar gliders can form very strong bonds with their human families, but as highly social animals they should live in pairs or small groups and must have a spacious enclosure, as well as a carefully monitored diet.

But many of the recommendations aren't sitting well with groups concerned about animal research.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Many social animals start to feel itchy after watching one of their fellows scratch, and scientists now have a better understanding of why an itch can spread through a group.

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

Wendy Jarrett, chief executive of a London - based group called «Understanding Animal Research,» says that «Explaining what really goes on inside labs is the best way to counter the sometimes hysterical claims of so - called animal rights activists.&Animal Research,» says that «Explaining what really goes on inside labs is the best way to counter the sometimes hysterical claims of so - called animal rights activists.&animal rights activists.»

She says that perhaps the best advice is to stick with a group; that sharply reduces the risk of attack, because animals typically target lone prey who have no chance of backup support from a herd.

Environmental groups urged the panel to recommend that FDA consider the JAMA paper, as well as the complete range of animal studies, and revise its calculation of a safe level.

The agency recently created a working group to help figure out which animals would be better off staying where they are.

If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.

«The American Southwest is, at best, marginal habitat for the animals,» he noted, adding that to really boost the species» chances, efforts should be focused on their current, more established habitats in Latin America, where his group works.

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilAnimal Welfare Act, including research facilities.

Therapsids roamed the Earth and dominated terrestrial ecosystems well before dinosaurs and are known from all continents in the world, but South Africa has by far the most diverse and long - ranging record of this important group of animals.

«Discoveries of new species of animals like Ichibengops are particularly exciting because they help us to better understand the group of animals that gave rise to mammals,» said Field Museum's Kenneth Angielczyk, PhD, associate curator of paleomammalogy.

For years, scientists have been debating the phylogenetic position of brachiopods and molluscs, as well as their affinities for other animals in the same group, the Lophotrochozoa, comprising segmented worms, clams, oysters, snails, squids, and so on.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The three groups kept the animals on tight rations, but well above starvation levels.

But with such a large group of eggs, he says, researchers can make quantitative measurements to better understand the range of egg sizes and shapes to get a sense of variation in animal size.

Basically 75 percent of all the emerging diseases come from animals, and the seminar which brought together a group of diverse researchers, tried to look at what we can do to better contain or spot potential outbreaks.

The vaccines provided good but imperfect protection against pathogenic SIV, which means that a group of 20 animals ended up infected, with a range of viral levels.

This study agitates the feud between conservationists, who fear free - roaming cats are devastating wildlife, and animal welfare groups that argue neutering feral cats is a better solution than removing them from the environment altogether.

But a new paper in the journal Conservation Biology calls out a troubling side effect: Some tags can be accessed by people who don't have the animals» best interests at heart, from hunters and poachers to antipredator groups and even nature tourists.

Dr Webb added: «When we concentrate on those groups of animals and plants which are best known, and where estimates of extinction risk are likely to be most reliable, the difference between marine and non-marine species disappears.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

Among pack animals, higher group numbers are thought to come with the benefit of better access to shared social information like the approach of prowling predators.

Ironmonger lists 130 other safari parks, aquaria, bird gardens and so on, as well as the 31 described at length; he has sections on the different animal groups kept in zoos and — extremely useful — a chart showing where all of the 350 different mammalian species and subspecies in British zoos are to be found.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia aniGroup - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia anigroup of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

While populations of wild animals have halved, only about 1 to 2 per cent of species have been lost so far — at least in well - studied groups such as mammals and birds.

In comparison to a control group which only received a placebo, the treated animals achieved significantly better results on memory tests.

«But why we get the strange groups of animals, and why we get some animals doing so well and others doing so badly — that's part of the great charm of this place.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.