Sentences with phrase «animal colonies in»

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

Not exact matches

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

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.

That the construction of super-organisms is a hazardous operation (like all Life's major transactions) is something of which we find ample evidence in the study of animal colonies, or, where Man is concerned, the spectacle afforded by recent totalitarian experiments.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colonIn order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colonin that laboratory colony.

As soon as the nervous system forming in the embryo begins to function as a whole — and not before — the cell colony begins to turn into a genuinely individual animal.

Animals from New South Wales were also sent to the French colony of New Caledonia, and in small numbers farther afield to Russia, Japan and India.

In view of the ongoing controversy over cattle colonies, it is interesting to note that Buhari owns a ranch in which, it must be assumed, his animals are kepIn view of the ongoing controversy over cattle colonies, it is interesting to note that Buhari owns a ranch in which, it must be assumed, his animals are kepin which, it must be assumed, his animals are kept.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

Cells in most animals and plants use short - interfering RNA (siRNA) segments to inhibit the formation of viral proteins; here siRNA designed to target IAPV would be fed to colonies as part of double - stranded RNA mixed into a syrup.

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shows that tree bumblebees have rapidly spread despite them carrying high levels of an infection that normally prevents queen bees from producing colonies.

«They nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies and often gang up on a predator,» says Pat Monaghan, a professor of animal ecology at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

This sort of communication may occur in pipes, across colonies of soil bacteria, and in the intestinal tract of animals, potentially aiding the spread of disease.

Parish filmed a 15 - minute scene at a bonobo colony at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in which a male, Vernon, repeatedly solicited two females, Lisa and Loretta.

This was little different from the normal rate of retaining mates: in 1990, 72 per cent of the birds in the same colony kept their previous mates (Animal Behaviour, vol 50, p 455).

Over several years studying an elephant seal colony in Año Nuevo State Park, California, the researchers were able to recognize many of the individual animals just by the rhythm of their voices, he says.

From the video, Lissette and her fellow researchers from the NOC and the Universities of Bristol, Essex and Newfoundland identified over 30 000 animals living on the surface of the Annan Seamount in the Equatorial - Atlantic, including spectacular cold - water coral colonies.

An international research paper, led by the University of Sydney, shows that the majority of micro-organisms in the termite gut is not found in any other animals and that they are not only inherited from parents but are also shared across colonies and among distantly related termite species.

Animals that live in large social colonies may benefit from many aspects of group living, but also have to contend with many of the downsides of living and foraging, with countless neighbors.

He points out that at the time, the turtles in the nearby colony were suffering from an unexplained disease which left many animals covered in tumours.

Researchers traced the unusual rat colony to a single room at the vendor's facility, and they restored the original urine composition in a few weeks by cohousing the rats with animals from other rooms.

They also found that an outbreak in a prairie dog colony might go unnoticed for years, because the animals are dying underground.

Earlier this year, his lab brought in its own «dirty» colony from a company that sells mice as food for zoo animals.

«First arrival at the colony is crucial in the mating system of colonial animals like seabirds,» writes Patrick Pinet of the University of Réunion, France.

Because these animals rely on vents as stepping - stones to establish new colonies, eliminating one vent might stop a species in its tracks.

Recently, Paul Sherman, an animal behaviorist at Cornell, and Timothy Judd, a graduate student at Colorado State University, have observed another hive - like trait among the pink, gerbil - size animals: some of them behave — at least in laboratory colonies — like selfless worker bees, providing food for the rest of a sometimes indolent colony.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

Corals are colonies of small, tentacled animals that encase themselves in bony structures made of the mineral calcium carbonate, the same material that makes up the shells of other sea creatures.

So far, Dr Gross and his team have tested Turing Learning in robot swarms but the next step is to reveal the workings of some animal collectives such as schools of fish or colonies of bees.

A colony of these animals was established in our facility after receiving breeding pairs from P.C. Butler (University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA).

The animals weigh 7 - 8 gram and live in small colonies of up to 40 individuals.

Careful colony management ensures the timely use of animals by scientists in experiments, as well as the enforcement of humane endpoints.

Isolation of single cell - derived colonies is required for developing methods of Cas9 / gRNA - mediated targeting in livestock by animal cloning.

We thank the Animal Facility Core for help in maintaining animal colonies and other members of the Tang laboratory for support and helpful discuAnimal Facility Core for help in maintaining animal colonies and other members of the Tang laboratory for support and helpful discuanimal colonies and other members of the Tang laboratory for support and helpful discussion.

Several zoos in Europe have stable prairie dog colonies that generate enough supernumerary pups to saturate the EU internal demand, and several associations help owners to give adoption to captivity - born animals.

She is the largest animal in the colony, averaging nearly two ounces.

The Oklahoma Alliance for Animals assisted with funding the rescue, veterinary evaluation, disease testing, spay / neuter, and placement of the cats in the colony described here.

I've been spending my time in the Animal Welfare Division of the SPCA, which targets its efforts on the implementation of a trap - neuter - return (TNR) program for stray dogs and its Cat Colony Care Programme (CCCP).

There are animal rescue groups that try to help out as much as they can with the stray cat colonies or with the overpopulation of stray dogs in their communities.

Animals rights group, The Animals» Battalion has announced that a 20 - year - old cat colony in Whitestone is being relocated by the Department of Transportation.

An occasional clinic day may be scheduled to serve only one barn, as was the case of the stray cat colony that grew to 41 animals in need of spay / neuter.

The morning's general session will feature a keynote address by Jane Hoffman, Founder and President of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals; a report on non-surgical sterilization research by the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs (ACC&D); an update on the TNR study being conducted in Alachua County and funded by Maddie's Fund, a demonstration of the Feral Cat Colony Online Database; a screening of The Humane Society of the United States» new film, «Trap - Neuter - Return: Fixing Feral Cat Overpopulation,» and a Regional Roundtable discussion on «Building Working TNR Coalitions» sponsored by Best Friends Animal Society.

Kat Kennedy, a spokeswoman for Orange County Animal Services, said the agency has notified a volunteer organization that helps establish and care for feral - cat colonies and is working to coordinate the various groups interested in resolving the situation.

If a kitten is sick or a cat is injured when we trap, the animal receives whatever medical treatment is necessary, then returned to its colony in a healthy state.

The preferred approach in many places has become animal control: Culling a colony by humanely trapping, and then bringing cats into the shelter for humane euthanization or adoption.

Newport News Animal Services Technician Erika Holub said that the city currently has 22 registered feral cat colonies with another four in the process of being registered.

York Fire Capt. Paul Long said when a cat colony is identified in York where there is a caretaker, animal control officers will provide information about resources to help care for the colony.

Also, we can help control disease and continued overbreeding of these cats in the wild, and ultimately reduce the number of euthanized cats in animal shelters while stabilizing colony populations.

In Case of Emergency Carry information about your colony (and your companion animals at home) in your walleIn Case of Emergency Carry information about your colony (and your companion animals at home) in your wallein your wallet.