Sentences with phrase «animal kingdom at»

Head to Tenerife's popular animal kingdom at Loro Parque and enjoy a day of adventure and fun for all the family!

In addition to humans» place in the animal kingdom at a scientific level, Lestel also highlights our essential, existential animality in his opening comments with fellow editor, Hollis Taylor.

Was the ruthlessness of the animal kingdom at fault?

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ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

But, he says: «The emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom is perhaps as great a mystery as the origin of life itself» He will, however, agree that there can be little doubt that consciousness in animals has some function and can be looked at as if it were a bodily organ.

Michael Reiss, an evolutionary biologist now based at the University of London's Institute of Education, looks at the evidence of certain altruistic behaviour in the animal kingdom (19th March).

@nascarcasm had this to say about his discovery: «This week at Pocono Raceway, the animal kingdom means business.»

When City were cruising against the Hammers at the beginning of the season, home keeper Willy Caballero dropped a clanger, and the former Barca boss subsequently kicked an imaginary cat high into the Etihad animal kingdom, such was his frustration.

i look around at the animal kingdom and i think if the mother or father is protecting there young then why shouldnt i.

Even in the animal kingdom the mom will swat at her babies when they do something wrong.

She wrote, «When we look at the animal kingdom we do not see a mother leaving her child to fend for themselves overnight.

Although I still maintain that squirrels are at the top of the animal kingdom in the urban concrete jungles of NYC.

Fake pastor fake professor yemi osinbajo and his wife fake pastoress Dolapo osinbajo are the owl and the pussycat of the animal kingdom called Nigeria, a dubious pair of wizard and witch occultic at night but forming holy in the daytime.

Her inauguration to the Westminster animal kingdom follows PHammond's decision to move his dogs, Rex and Oscar, into Downing Street, and the more controversial move by chief whip Gavin Williamson, whose tarantula Cronus was at the centre of a media storm in recent weeks.

Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»

The grisly practice of eating your own kind turns out to be widespread in the animal kingdom, a zoologist explains in this captivating look at cannibalism (SN: 2/18/17, p. 29).

In a new study published in the Dec. 11 issue of Current Biology, marine biologist Greg Rouse at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his collaborators reported a new twist to the Osedax story, revealing an evolutionary oddity unlike any other in the animal kingdom.

The sea slug Aplysia californica, a red, green or brown hermaphrodite that can grow up to 16 inches long, has the biggest brain cells, or neurons, in the animal kingdom, at up to a millimeter long.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

At night these same animals venture up near the surface in what may be the greatest migration in the animal kingdom.

For decades biologists have marveled at the diversity of penises across the animal kingdom.

A new study from researchers at the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University now sheds light on the pervasiveness of SSB in the animal kingdom.

The engineering of the feat, which seemed not far short of a miracle back in the late 1950s, seems not far short of a miracle today, quite frankly, especially when you consider that our closest rivals in the animal kingdom are still dining out on being able to open a coconut by hurling it at a rock.

Followers of the Ig Nobel Prizes may be familiar with at least one example of necrophilia in the animal kingdom.

«HIV is a human virus,» Devin Sok of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute said in a press release, «but researchers can certainly learn from immune responses across the animal kingdom.»

«The beautifully preserved remains — dubbed Ida — is believed to be a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom,» the article said — a sentence that makes no sense the first time you read it and then somehow manages to make even less sense the longer you look at it.

Whether it is a display of courage to impress a potential mate in the animal kingdom, or seeking to become stronger and larger than the average man, there is little doubt that much male behaviour is governed at a primal level by the evolutionary drive to impress females to increase the potential for mating opportunities and thereby perpetuate your genes.

The maternal diet can help to «boost» the secretory sIgA levels transferred to milk, at least in the animal kingdom.

Dr. Helen Fisher, a noted anthropologist at Rutgers University said, «In the animal kingdom, you can't spend three months discussing your resume; you need to feel instant sparks to start the breeding process.»

Schrader and Scorsese put the cage on wheels, as a yellow cab in which Travis seethes at all the other night animals, unaware of his place in the kingdom.

My first big book — I read it at about 11 or 12 — was called The Territorial Imperative which looked at the animal kingdom and at how humans also are territorial.

Let's take a look at some of the most interesting comparisons in the animal kingdom.

Her big dream is to become a Veterinary Technician at Disney's Animal kingdom!

Ungulates include barnyard favorites like cows, sheep and donkeys — all great additions at petting zoos but not known for winning any intelligence prizes in the animal kingdom... read more

At the moment, their commonality is limited to membership in the animal kingdom.

The game gives you a birdseye view (sorry) of the decadence and struggle at both ends of society in a formerly aristocratic France, albeit with the characters taking the form of members of the animal kingdom.

Then again, if riding on dirt is not your thing, you might want to have a glance at the Bugatti below, a nice alternative to fight the animal kingdom governed by Jaguars and every other car we can only dream of ever racing.

Inspired by the work of American musician and bioacoustician Bernie Krause, this exhibition (until 8 January 2017) at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, which brings together artists from all over the world, invites its audience to immerse themselves in an aesthetic meditation, both aural and visual, on an animal kingdom that is increasingly under threat.

The upcoming group exhibition «Feral Creatures» at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco is not a documentary portrayal of the animal kingdom.

Two themes recur frequently — memento mori and the animal kingdom — and together they communicate the spirit of the entire collection, a combination of contemporary masterpieces and works of another kind: unique, unusual objets d'art that fascinate and at the same time intimidate — unexpected and surprising works.

You've also got a short while left to take in the group show Animalia, which in its wheeling celebration of the animal kingdom makes, we'd say, a very nice companion show to the San Diego Natural History Museum's Photo Ark that we recently profiled here at the blog.

Yet, while the great artist had a love for critters (his pet dachshund Lump would even eat at the dinner table), his use of cats, camels and more was not a case of whimsical affection, but a recognition that the animal kingdom is often harnessed allegorically to express human desires and truths.

Wilner often turns to the animal kingdom, as he does in Making History: March 2009 to metaphorically narrate our relationship to other species, many endangered largely at our own hands.

Of the thirty - odd phyla in the animal kingdom, at least a third are generally referred to as worms.

It's been another rough year for the animal kingdom — all that rarefied air at the top of the food chain must be leaving us brain - addled — but a few small victories for our furred, feathered, finned, hooved, and scaled cohorts

We're not much to look at, and we're preyed upon by just about every creature in the animal kingdom.