Sentences with phrase «animal equivalent»

«This is one I felt we could get closer to the animal equivalent than other categories.»

Wild animals are not owed citizenship rights but should be regarded as members of sovereign communities and granted the animal equivalent of universal human rights.

Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

This candid snap is the animal equivalent of an intrusive long - lens shot you might see in a tabloid.

The study provides an animal equivalent to «a frequent, maladaptive feature of human behavior during stress: We fall into doing the same thing... instead of trying something new,» says Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist at the Stanford School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California.

The experiments were enough to set Vedral wondering if he and his colleagues could find quantum effects within the animal equivalent of photosynthesis.

Mali, an eight - year - old Belgian Malinois, has been awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross for sniffing out explosives and Taliban insurgents with the Special Boat Service.

According to PetMD (the animal equivalent of WebMD), although many cats don't develop the symptoms, some do.

The results of the necropsies (the animal equivalent of autopsies) of 13 of those whales, which beached in Germany, near the town of Tönning in Schleswig - Holstein, have just been released.