Sentences with phrase «at animal calls»

«The more closely we look at animal calls, the more information we find,» Templeton says.

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In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owner.

Though her owner, photographer Sandra Boos, managed to bring the animal in the first time, the 20 - year - old pony ran much further in her second attempt, prompting an onlooker to call the police at 5:30 p.m.

For example, the folks at a rescue animal shelter called Fur Baby Rescue wanted to leverage BuzzFeed's hundreds of millions of readers.

To advise us that you will be traveling with a live animal or if you have any questions, please call a Customer Service Representative at 1 -800-CAPE-AIR.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris Grand Mosque, called the cartoon a «a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation,» but added that «We are not like animals of Pavlov to react at each insult.»

The response at the natural level and at the so - called «animal level» may be minimal.

Id al - Adha, also called Id al - Qurban, the festival at the end of the pilgrimage, is the Great Festival at which Muslims from all over the world gather at the mosques to worship and then kill animals to memorialize the story of Abraham and Ishimael and their willingness to obey the authority of God.

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.»

Higher animals all seem to contain at least one such society, called a «living person,» present in the body in addition to the cells and molecules of the central nervous system, even though dependent upon them.

In this very old prescription only two simple sacrifices are called for: the burnt offering (the complete consumption by fire of an animal victim), signifying the worshiper's homage to the god - ness of God; and the peace offering, a joyous, religious, communion meal celebrating the full three - member relationship of the Covenant by enacting the oneness at the common board of the Lord with his people, and his people with each other.

«The call came into us at 11 am, and as foxes are nocturnal animals I can only imagine he had been there from the night before.

But then the waitress brings a plate of salami, his face lights up and he changes tack, telling me he's recently become a part - owner of a pig farm on the Yorke Peninsula («It's called Pork on the Yorke», he says, laughing — it's not), and that he's considering getting a piglet as a pet to follow him around at Seppeltsfield («fuck they're funny animals!»).

Along the way we've seen 20 investigations, tens of thousands of people turn out to represent animals at national rallies, television exposé after television exposé, and we've seen more and more courageous MP's stand up to injustice and echo your calls, giving a strong voice to animals in Parliament.

New round of «Stop the toxic soybeans» call / Toxicological dossier on combinatorial effects of pesticides / Report on genetically engineered animals / New conflict of interest case at EFSA

Meanwhile, Animals Australia has called for the export licence of the company at the centre of the latest live export row to be suspended.

Investigation showed that the pipe in the earth was a so - called «coyote getter,» a deadly device loaded and cocked and set to shoot a cyanide charge into the mouth of any animal that pulled at its aromatic wick.

If you stop by your local law enforcement center (sometimes they have car seat clinics but if you call ahead they'll always help) they'll help you get the seat installed properly, check the fit on your child and they have pre-cut fun noodles ready to go (bonus, baby gets a cute stuffed animal and gets to state in awe at the shiney stuff on the officer's uniform) I went when we used the infant seat, again when we upgraded to the convertible and yet again when turned her around to face forward.

For instance, when looking at a book with a small child, you can ask questions like «What's that animal called?

The brutal stabbing of a Western New York police dog last November has spurred a call at the state Capitol to increase the penalties for seriously injuring and killing a police animal.

Oneida County residents may contact the CNYSPCA Animal Cruelty Investigations Division, beginning April 1st, by calling CNYSPCA through their Animal Cruelty Hotline at 315-454-3469.

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.

Also at 9:30 a.m., NYC Council Members Paul Vallone and Corey Johnson will hold a press conference to call for the establishment of full service animal shelters in Queens and the Bronx; City Hall steps, Manhattan.

To report a suspected rabid animal call Delaware County Public Health Services at 607-832-5200.

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.

For more information on animal rabies or the vaccine call the Rockland County Department of Health at 845-364-2594.

To get around those limitations, Hirt and her colleagues looked at previously collected data for a wide variety of creatures, including ectotherms (so - called cold - blooded animals) as well as warm - blooded endotherms.

The shark tank alone will be 20 times the size of the exhibit at the previous location, and features a walk - through tunnel, the better to ogle the 2,000 animals that will call it home.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

Many events that humans call disaster rarely are for plants, animals and other organisms, at least in the long term.

In most animals, exposure to acid stimulates special channels at the tips of sensory neurons called nociceptors.

«There's a lot of anecdotal evidence for how animals and even plants respond to totality,» when the moon completely blocks the sun, says Elise Ricard, spokesperson for an eclipse project called Life Responds at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco...

And at Boston College, biochemist David Newburg and his colleagues have found that another oligosaccharide called 2» - fucosyllactose is effective at warding off Campylobacter, cholera, and enteropathogenic E. coli — a frequent cause of diarrhea — in animal models.

In the animal model, so - called DNA crosslinkers have shown to be very efficient at this.

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

They simply failed at picking out the calls of older, socially dominant animals.»

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

Nuno Franco, who studies laboratory animal welfare and ethics at the University of Porto in Portugal, calls the ban «poorly justified» and «damaging» to science.

However, according to new results presented at the International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, the caterpillars have learned to mimic birds» distress calls by forcing air through holes in their bodies with an accordionlike contraction, The Scientist reports.

A few years later, he used a technique called biotelemetry — sophisticated trackers emitting acoustic pulses that he followed from above in a small skiff or through underwater listening stations that tracked the animals for days at a time.

A comparison of orangutan social groups shows that the animals have at least some hallmarks of what in humans is commonly called culture.

This sets off a process called stimulus - timing dependent plasticity, or STDP, which was first explored in animals and led to long - term changes in the rate at which the nerves fire.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.

Since the dinosaur was found in a part of the Sonoran Desert called the Chihuahua Desert, Ratkevich at first wanted to name the dinosaur Chihuahuasaurus but felt it wasn't appropriate for a 51 - foot - long animal.

But a new paper in the journal Conservation Biology calls out a troubling side effect: Some tags can be accessed by people who don't have the animals» best interests at heart, from hunters and poachers to antipredator groups and even nature tourists.

Her research is part of a new field of study, called aeroecology, that looks at the interactions between flying animals and their airspace.

Parish recounts an interaction between Lana and a male called Akili at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.

Michael Cranfield, a veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, and co-director of one organization called Gorilla Doctors, and his colleagues provided samples from blood collected while treating injured animals or dissecting dead ones, including Kaboko.