Sentences with phrase «as elephant mothers»

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Hmmm, there are certainly things we don't want to mimic in an elephant birth, but those calves are close to their mothers and nurse immediately after birth, which is something we are getting back to as a standard of care in many U.S. hospital births.

Sweden «Breast warmers,» which BabyCenter editor Carina Westling describes as «a cross between a baby elephant's ear and a 1980s shoulder pad, that you stuff into your bra to hold in body heat,» are popular among new mothers.

Most of the elephants, aside from mother - juvenile pairs, were unrelated and did not live in family groups as wild elephants do.

As part of the study, Cherney measured the isotopic composition of tail hairs from a mother - calf pair of African elephants at the Toledo Zoo.

This planned technique would eliminate the need to use Asian Elephants as surrogate mothers to breed a new generation of Woolly Mammoths.

The story mines territory familiar to Picoult — family, memory and identity — as it follows 13 - year - old Jenna Metcalf, whose mother Alice (a scientist specializing in elephant behavior) went missing in the wake of a tragic accident more than a decade ago.

The game's missions are inspired by PETA's real - world exposés of animal abuse, including baby elephants who were exploited by Ringling Bros. circus, mother cows whose calves are repeatedly torn away from them on dairy farms, and sheep who are beaten on wool farms, as was documented at shearing facilities in Australia, the U.S., and Argentina.