Sentences with phrase «animal groups such»

Ash continues her work with animals in our personal lives as well, and while I make small improvements in my own way, my time is often taken up by my freelance web design business and my many side projects (like creating websites for animal groups such as this one).

Gloves should be changed between examinations of individual animals or animal groups such as litters of puppies or kittens, between clean and dirty procedures performed on a single patient, and whenever they become torn or their integrity is in question.

Not exact matches

That could include content shared by animal rights groups to expose animal testing conditions or animal abuse, or content that raises awareness of humanitarian crises around the world, such as famine and the impact of war, according to Instagram.

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

Animals that live in groups, such as baboons, both compete and cooperate to stay together.

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.

When with others, you start getting into group morality, which is something that comes with cultures of social animals, such as we are.

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

The balance of nature, Type II, although commonly stated in a metaphor of two terms, obviously involves many terms such as animals, waste, water, oxygen, algae, industries, governments, conservation groups, etc..

Australian animal protection groups have written to the Department requesting that they use their power to ensure that no more animals are placed at such grave risk of appalling cruelty in Jordan.

We are also a peak body representing around 40 Australian «Member Society» groups for whom we provide campaign advice or representation on animal welfare committees and government advisory groups, such as the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Commanimal welfare committees and government advisory groups, such as the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory CommAnimal Welfare Advisory Committee.

Animal rights groups such as World Animal Protection have sought to ban the sale of cage - sourced Kopi Luwak, and many retailers have taken the product off their shelves.

Little children start to understand object groupings, such as collecting all the cars together, or all the animals.

In the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuit.

Previous studies of animal speed have focused only on certain groups of animals, such as mammals.

«The carnivorous theropods were more closely related to the herbivorous ornithischians and, what's more, some animals, such as Diplodocus, would fall outside the traditional grouping that we called dinosaurs.

One common idea is that such animals form social groups to reduce the risk of being gobbled up.

The social intelligence hypothesis posits that having to navigate a complex communal life, which involves challenges such as keeping track of who is a friend and who is an enemy, has pushed group - living animals to evolve the mental machinery required to solve and remember mental tasks such as the box puzzle.

«Examples with predators were limited to social animals, such as meerkats, where small groups spend more time being vigilant and consequently are more likely to go extinct.

The researchers read all of those studies, looking for things such as appropriate control groups and whether a sufficient number of animals had been used.

Psychiatric drugs are also used in birds, though animal welfare groups worried that the use of such drugs to treat behavioural problems in animals would create a population of «pill - popping pets».

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

The group adds that the animals are killed in very inhumane ways — such as by electrocution, gassing or poisoning — to preserve the quality of the pelts above all else.

Even animal - rights groups were partially pleased with the outcome, with the Dr Hadwen Trust, a U.K. medical - research charity that promotes the use of alternatives to animal research, citing positive changes such as improved pain - severity classifications and more investment in alternatives to animal testing.

For such «group selection» to take place, he argued, animals don't need to be closely related, they just need to stick together and...

Such changes in populations of certain animal groups can upset the balance of food webs.

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.

For centuries, scientists and non-scientists alike have been fascinated by the beautiful and often complex collective behaviour of animal groups, such as the highly synchronised movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish.

Institutions that conduct research with animals have been targeted by groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, for example, and institutions that do defense - related studies may need to increase staff awareness of those who might seek access to restricted materials or information.

«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

Animals that live in groups and defend territories, such as wolves and chimps, tend to be more violent.

Recent work by the same group of researchers showed that such disruptions in sleep were also a hallmark of fetal alcohol syndrome, both in animal models and in people.

This enabled them to greatly reduce the number of laboratory animals, because usually different groups of animals have to be used for such comparative studies.

In future, such data may be key to figuring out whether groups of dogs form complex social hierarchies like wild wolves — a hotly debated question in animal psychology.

The researchers will now focus on determining how widespread this hormone is in other animal groups related to the worms, such as snails or mussels, to get further insight into its role in the animal kingdom.

In fact, they occur wherever animals live in «bonded» groups — where individuals gather together because of their personal relationships rather than being forced to by environmental factors such as a food source or safe sleeping site.

«Animal welfare in research settings has made such great strides that the arguments of antivivisection groups have become largely baseless,» said Jan Schnupp, professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, in a statement relayed by the Science Media Centre in London.

It demonstrates too the value of captive breeding, even for such a diverse group as this: not only to preserve at least some threatened species, but also to provide contact between humans and animals, and promote human understanding, without which all conservation is doomed.

The animals are known to move up and down a water column, often settling at the bottom during the day, but they haven't been observed in such a large group.

Behavioral and genetics studies requiring more animals could potentially be done in nontraditional research setting such as sanctuaries or zoos, suggested working group co-chair neurologist Daniel Geschwind of the University of California, Los Angeles.

«Based on the results of animal studies done by other groups, we hypothesize such differences are due to other biological causes (e.g. sex hormones),» Sun said.

The third group of organisms comprises all visible life, such as humans, animals, and fungi — collectively known as eukaryotes.

«These levels are known to impact both the human experience in national parks and have a range of repercussions for wildlife... so animals use sounds for many essential life functions, such as predator avoidance, navigation, finding food, mate attraction and maintenance of social groups.

A minority view held that the two major groups of bats actually had separate origins and that animals such as the squirrellike colugo might be more closely related to one type of bat.

The findings could help explain group behavior of other animals, such as schooling fish, says evolutionary biologist Iain Couzin of Princeton University.

For animals living in such small groups, it is especially important to accurately identify other members of their species.