Sentences with phrase «animals were at large»

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With the evolution of life, at a certain stage, came the development of animals with a nervous system, and eventually human beings with a large brain.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

God also created all of the animals in the beginning, but the population is certainly larger than it was at the start.

Now in its second year, Europe's largest vegan conference is a day of education about food made with zero animal products and will be held at the Royal Institution in Piccadilly.

Much of the cruelty witnessed over the years has been the result of individuals buying animals for private or backyard slaughter or fearful and un-trained workers not having the training or the equipment to manage large, frightened animals in a way that would at least reduce their suffering.

Christian Pappanicholas, owner at Cannibal in New York and Los Angeles, grew up in a Greek household where large family gatherings meant grilling whole animals on spits — he remembers his cousins killing lambs in the garage when he was a kid.

At the end of that first meal, a server asked if we'd like to have a hot cocktail on the large outdoor patio, where there are a few benches draped in animal pelts, arranged around a roaring fireplace.

I think the animals are eating better, seriously look at what the small and large mammals eat in a day every day.

Located in the Aquatics Center building this small free museum is perfect for little ones who like to see animals, but don't have the stamina for a long drive or a day at a large museum.

Rather, it is now a large forbidding place of wild animals, unpredictable threats, danger at every turn...

Despite support from Ms. Mark - Viverito, there seemed to be little political will from the City Council at large, where many members benefit from the endorsements of unions and where some grew deeply frustrated with calls and ads from animal groups, to pass a ban.

In a paper published in the journal Systematic Biology and delivered at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference this week, Dr Phillips said biases in models of DNA evolution inflated estimates of when modern mammals, which were once no larger than a guinea pig, diversified and evolved into the animals familiar to us today.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Despite being an iconic image — a fossil with a striped body, large tail, a pair of stalks terminating in dark, oval - shaped «blobs» and a large elephant trunk - like proboscis at the head end which has a pincer - like claw filled with teeth — it is a complete mystery as to what kind of extinct animal it was.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

Analysis suggests it was probably fashioned from the bladder of some large animal, perhaps a woolly rhinoceros, and was at one time attached to some long, thin bones found arrayed around the impression.

The biggest land animal today is the African elephant, with a large male weighing in at around 6 tonnes.

Because large animals play an important role in the ocean food web, «a threat profile focused on the largest species is particularly concerning from an ecological perspective,» said lead author Jonathan Payne, an associate professor in the school of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

Researchers at Aarhus University have carried out the first global analysis of the extinction of the large animals, and the conclusion is clear — humans are to blame.

«This is clear evidence that plant - eating mammals actually have larger guts,» explains Marcus Clauss, a professor of comparative digestive physiology in wild animals at UZH.

The move comes in response to an exposé published in The New York Times last month, which documented numerous cases of animal suffering and death at a Department of Agriculture facility that has been trying to create larger and more fecund farm animals for several decades.

The ability to manufacture proteins, which at present are very difficult or even impossible to produce, in large quantities and in their native form, rapidly and inexpensively, will have an enormous impact in all sectors of biology (biotechnology, nutrition, pharmacy, human and animal health care, and, in the near future, nanotechnology).

The method must now be tested on larger animals before it can be tried in humans, but the hope is that tissue - engineered repairs for congenital diaphragm malformations will be at least as effective as current surgical options with the added benefit of growing with children throughout their lives.

ARS came under fire early this year when The New York Times documented numerous cases of animal suffering and death at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm ananimal suffering and death at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm anAnimal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm animals.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

«Oceans in the future may provide less fish and shellfish for us to eat, and larger animals that are at the top of the food web, in particular, will suffer.

If large arm - feathers a sort of proto - wing — developed only once adulthood was reached, that implies that they weren't necessary for the young animal's day - to - day survival, says lead author Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontology professor at University of Calgary.

«Larger marine animals at higher risk of extinction, and humans are to blame.»

The study suggests there may be «many more such instances of misidentification of animal species» — especially considering that the sunfish is relatively large and hard to miss — says Byrappa Venkatesh, a geneticist at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, who was not involved in the new research.

While Payne and his colleagues did not directly examine why large modern marine animals are at higher risk of extinction, their findings are consistent with a growing body of scientific literature that point to humans as the main culprits.

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The terra preta soils at Hatahara and the other sites are made from a mixture of plant refuse and animal and fish bones, along with large quantities of charcoal that were deposited after settlers used stone axes and slow - burning fires to clear forest.

At first, this was a cold pine forest filled with large animals like elephants and bison.

«Dolphins evolved from relatively small - brained animals like cows and hippos into this large - brained, highly specialized aquatic organism,» says Caro - Beth Stewart, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York, Albany, who was not involved in the research.

Today, it is well known that human activities put larger animals at greater risk of extinction.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

View a slide show of the animal market But more recently, she boosted the fortunes of larger cats as well by helping expose the fact that the Xiongsen Bear & Tiger Zoo near the city of Guilin was killing the endangered cats in its «zoo» and serving the meat at its snack bar or dropping the carcasses into vats of wine.

As a result, «they were able to more finely divide up the day in terms of the different types of activity the animals were engaged in,» says John Laundré, a large carnivore ecologist at UC Riverside, who was not involved in either study.

But as today's large animal populations become more in danger of extinction, the environment too is at risk.

This is because large animals disperse large seeded plant species often associated with large trees and high wood density — which are more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than smaller trees.

Research at the University of Witwatersrand and the Transvaal Museum suggests that the animals and the hominids found at Makansgat were the prey of hyenas and large cats that used the cave as a den.

Spanier, who announced the finding this week in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, says that the peptide is generated from a larger, parent protein as beef ages after an animal has been slaughtered.

Polar bears and penguins get all the attention but there's more than large, fuzzy and feathered animals thriving at the frozen antipodes of our planet.

Reproduction is often associated with significant investments, especially when animals produce large quantities of offspring, at the expense of their own growth or well - being.

If similar tests in larger animals pan out, humans will be next, says Gerald Shulman, a molecular biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut whose team discovered this new role for the molecule, called N - acylphosphatidylethanolamine (NAPE).

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.

It is poisonous but only at relatively large doses; in rats it killed half of the animals tested at concentrations above 825 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

After comparing fossils of 78 species of carnivores that lived during five different periods of time between 3.5 million years ago (when large carnivores were at their peak) and 1.5 million years ago, Werdelin found that all but six of 29 species of large carnivores (animals that weighed more than 21.5 kilos) had gone extinct in that time.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research senior fellows Brian Leander and Patrick Keeling supervised lead author Greg Gavelis at the University of British Columbia and, in collaboration with senior fellow Curtis Suttle, showed that this eye - like structure contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes that can detect objects — known as camera eyes — that are found in humans and other larger animals.