Sentences with phrase «about animal»

A well - known example are dinosaurs: Many theories about animal gigantism offer high levels of atmospheric oxygen as an explanation.

We had been through a lot of concerns about animal health.

Panicked about an animal escaping, I searched high and low.

We were very glad that they eventually decided to give it to us, because otherwise we would have left and never had known about this animal,» he said.

[see: http://bit.ly/cDdbUx] When we think about animal locomotion... whether it's walking, running, or just standing around... we usually focus on the bones and muscles in the legs and feet.

Blood is the material of choice for learning about an animal's health, because it contains every substance circulating in the body.

And the loss of genetic diversity in wild axolotls — owing to their diminishing population — means that scientists lose out on learning all they can about the animal's biology.

A Mexican national who went to school not far from Xochimilco, she never thought much about the animal and certainly never considered studying it until she came to Germany.

For more than 140 years nearly all that scientists knew about this animal was derived from one lonely specimen preserved in a jar of alcohol in the Natural History Museum, London.

«I recommend institutions doing biomedical research educate their in - house counsels about these animal rights strategies and be prepared.»

Primate redux With James Franco in the lead and a political undercurrent about animal testing, Rise of the Apes reboots the reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise in June.

Capsaspora was originally discovered living inside a freshwater snail and has been used by Ruiz - Trillo's group to learn more about animal evolution.

Health problems among clones raise concerns about animal welfare and food safety, Hansen adds.

«Once you've sorted out the sediment, you can better interpret the actual foot and what that tells you about the animal that made it,» Whyte says.

«For many years, the only «information» or images that the public could access about animal research were provided by organizations opposed to the use of animals in scientific progress.

Each commitment has a series of suggested actions for organizations, including nominating a spokesperson to answer questions about animal research, supporting researchers who want to talk about their work, and including information on the role animals played in announcements about scientific advances.

At an event in Berlin today, the organizations launched a new project to educate the public about animal studies, after harsh attacks by animal rights activists in recent years.

After all, why care about an animal that wants to eat us?

Prior to the start of experiments, participants were asked to report their feelings about animal rights.

With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.

Members of both parties have been supporting this review, because there's nothing partisan about animal welfare.»

This month, UAR and more than 40 science organizations will publish a joint document, or concordat, laying out how they plan to be more open and transparent about their animal research work.

He taught us that our vanity had blinded us to the true nature of minds, animal and human; that so much more is to be learned about animal minds than received doctrine allowed.

The idea of bees «speaking» with chemicals raised questions about animal language and cognition that are hotly debated to this day.

Alex taught us how little we know about animal minds and how much more there is to discover.

And whereas the rest of the biological sciences can safely hide behind the behaviourist logic that we can never know what another organism, human or otherwise, is consciously experiencing, even asking a question about animal welfare forces us to conclude that we must at least try to find out.

«We started working on vertebrates about 4 years ago not knowing anything about animal physiology, and we just started learning as we went along.»

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

Various theories emerged about the animal's bizarre mix of features, including a long, crocodilian snout and a 6 - foot - tall dorsal sail.

With this and other ideas about animal markings, Thayer earned himself the title «father of camouflage».

The X-rays picked up details as fine as 20 micrometers, revealing much about the animal's natural history.

And a growing body of evidence does threaten what we thought we knew about animal cognition.

«[These are] basic data about animal use and compliance that taxpayers have a right to access, particularly when it comes to taxpayer - funded labs,» says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, a Washington, D.C. — based group that opposes taxpayer - funded animal experiments.

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

No modern creature squats defensively, so this is a fairly radical assertion to make about an animal that has been dead for 150 million years.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

«Ideas about animal [species] being transitional had yet to materialize.

Students can go to our Nevada Agriculture Experiment Station in the morning, follow animal harvest activities in our USDA - inspected meat processing plant, learn about animal welfare practices and spend the afternoon in the lab developing research.»

Timid types get a bad rap, but discoveries about animal personalities suggest we should value shy people just as much as extroverts

He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere.

Quinn acknowledged concerns about Animal Care and Control resources and performance.

Mark is passionate about animal welfare.

The Smiths, widely considered one of the greatest British bands of the 1980s, incoporated several songs about animal rights into their repertoire, but also featured several damning attacks on Conservatives, including Margaret on the Guillotine, a song imagining Margaret Thatcher's execution.

That day she had shared a clip of Dave Grohl's band and wrote «I f ****** love the Foo Fighters» and shared a friend's poster about animal - free cosmetics and a cartoon about veganism.

Many New York City Council members say the pending horse - carriage legislation that could erase hundreds of jobs and cost the city millions is less about animal rights and more about Mayor Bill de Blasio keeping a campaign promise to wealthy donors.

It's the latest salvo in a running fight between her and the bill's sponsor, Democrat Peter Vallone Jr. (She cut his discretionary spending; he complained about her animal bill.)

Many New York City Council members believe the pending horse - carriage legislation that could erase hundreds of jobs and cost the city millions is less about animal rights and more about de Blasio keeping a campaign promise to wealthy donors.

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Public feelings about animal testing have led many manufacturers and retailers to advertise their «cruelty - free» credentials - Anita Roddick's «Body Shop» chain was at the forefront of this movement.

«If the Tories» claims about animal welfare were true, they would have ruled out the return of foxhunting months ago, rethought their poorly regulated badger cull, and not tried to water down existing EU standards on animal welfare.»