Sentences with phrase «at animal carcasses»

An Australian archaeologist fired replicas of Middle Stone Age projectiles with a crossbow (left) at animal carcasses.

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For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

The disease was detected on a cow carcass taken in for rendering last Wednesday at an animal - rendering plant in Hanford, Calif., said Dennis Luckey, vice president of Baker Commodities Inc., a Los Angeles - based processor of animal byproducts that operates the facility.

Lead, which condors consume when scavenging at carcasses of animals killed with lead ammunition, is the main factor limiting their recovery; lead toxicosis was responsible for 26 % of juvenile condor deaths and 67 % of adult condor deaths between 1992 and 2009.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

Njau retrieved and studied cow and goat bones from carcasses that had been eaten by crocodiles housed at two animal farms in Tanzania.

Under cover of an animal park, the zookeepers at Xiongsen Bear & Tiger Zoo in China were killing the endangered cats, serving the meat as a snack and then dropping the carcasses into vats of wine.

(Reuters)- Carcasses of bottlenose dolphins are washing up on U.S. East Coast beaches from New Jersey to Virginia at a higher than normal pace, with more than 120 dead animals discovered since June, local and federal officials said on Thursday.

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.

Carcasses of bottlenose dolphins are washing up on U.S. East Coast beaches from New Jersey to Virginia at a higher than normal pace, with more than 120 dead animals discovered since June, local and federal officials said on Thursday.

Dr Wenban - Smith comments: «Although there is no direct evidence of how this particular animal met its end, the discovery of flint tools close to the carcass confirm butchery for its meat, probably by a group of at least four individuals.

«In the rainforest, many animals die each and every day, but it's really rare to find a carcass,» says Sébastien Calvignac - Spencer, an evolutionary biologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and lead author of the new study.

If carrion flies have one enviable talent, it's finding animal carcasses in the wilderness, something they surpass even the most systematic and intrepid field biologists at doing.

«The traditional view was that hominins started knapping to make sharp - edged flakes so they could cut meat off of animal carcasses, and maybe used the cores, called «choppers», to break open bones to get at the marrow» Lewis says.

But these animals are generally eating carcasses that are only a few days old at most and generally the parts they eat at this stage contain mostly oxidation resistant saturated fatty acids.

Computer generated decomposing of animal carcasses taps into Darwin's unsettling yet organic vision that all of nature is at war from the smallest to largest predator.

City agencies were asked nine questions aimed at learning the number of animals handled, numbers euthanized, and methods of euthanasia and carcass disposal.

Fey said it was in everyone's «best interest» for the government to take ownership of the animals, who were living at least two dogs to a crate and eating rotting deer and cow carcasses — maybe even hair — as a food source.

Soutine studied traditional still - lifes — careful, elaborate and minutely detailed — at the Louvre and then created visceral, expressionist paintings of tortured animal carcasses, establishing a parallel between the animal and human, beauty and pain.