Sentences with phrase «animals headed toward»

Equally worrisome is that «species loss under BAU has the potential to be truly disastrous, conceivably with a majority of today's plants and animals headed toward extermination.»

Not exact matches

The organization's researchers wrote algorithms that use signals from the collars to automatically detect when an animal stops moving (indicating it may be dead), slows down (suggesting it may be injured) or heads toward a danger zone, such as an area known for rampant poaching.

Fascinated, she dove head first into the literature of dog training, learning theory, animal behavior, evolution, genetics and cognition, and she is now working toward graduating The Academy for Dog Trainers.

As a backdrop, a colossal painting of an asbestos - suited figure fleeing a burning Manhattan while being pursued by a human - headed snake, making its way to a garbage strewn New Jersey where a skeleton lies in wait with a gun; in front, a life - size sculpture of a map - skinned boy with flames sprouting from his body races toward a tree hung with animal skulls and a severed head.

It brought together biologists, engineers, government officials and entrepreneurs seeking — for both environmental and ethical reasons — to move from animal husbandry to technology as a means of providing the kind of protein people crave in a world heading toward 9 billion ever more affluent mouths.

We seem headed toward creating for ourselves a planet on which little is left alone, one dominated by us and populated mainly, if not exclusively, by plants and animals that prove useful to us for food, shelter, or personal enjoyment, and by those animals and plants that have adapted to living with us, from head lice to rats.

This law tells us that all in the universe, trees, human beings, plants, animals, buildings and all else are headed downward from complexity to simplicity toward decay, deterioration, decadence, and death.