Sentences with phrase «attacks on humans»

Volusia County Beaches, Florida where more unprovoked shark attacks on humans have occurred per square mile than anywhere else in the world — six in 2011 alone.

The results of attacks on humans, particularly young children, by these animals, can be truly devastating.

Breed specific legislation (or BSL) are laws regulate or ban certain dog breeds in an attempt to reduce the number of attacks on humans, but are they fair?

These laws regulate or ban certain breeds in an attempt to reduce the number of attacks on humans.

«Out of the 350 species of sharks, humans have to be careful with about 5,» says Cousteau, «and there are only about 10 fatal shark attacks on humans each year around the globe.

«The paper also focuses much attention on the potential for increases in polar bear attacks on humans due to sea ice loss (blamed on global warming) but ignores totally the increased risk stemming from the larger proportion of adult males that now exist in protected populations.»

While I was there, there was heated debate around the practice of «shark chumming,» and whether or not it increases the risk of attacks on humans.

[93] Increased human - bear interactions, including fatal attacks on humans, are likely to increase as the sea ice shrinks and hungry bears try to find food on land.

If you look at the shark attack statistics in California, where a few decades ago they went through a similar phenomenon with the seal populations responding to protection and white shark attacks on seals increasing, there was no similar trend in attacks on humans.»

There are no recorded attacks on humans in history from wild orcas.

Between 1985 and 2016 there were more than 20 recorded dragon attacks on humans, four of which were fatal... We saw some empty dragons» nests (the mating season is from July to August) and also found three dragons resting in the shadow of some trees.

Did you know that more than 80 percent of dogs involved in fatal attacks on humans are not spayed or neutered?

More specifically, the term refers to regional laws that ban or regulate certain breeds of dog in the hopes of reducing attacks on humans.

Polsky (2000) meanwhile describes severe attacks on humans by dogs who were being trained or maintained on an electronic pet containment system.

Notwithstanding relative stability in the number of dog bites over time (Bradley, 2006), and the fact that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only two percent of those seeking emergency room treatment for dog bites each year are actually hospitalized (CDC WISQARS), some communities have enacted laws that intensively regulate or even ban certain dog breeds in an effort to decrease dog attacks on humans (AVMA, 2001).

Breed - specific legislation (BSL) is the blanket term for laws that either regulate or ban certain dog breeds in an effort to decrease dog attacks on humans and other animals.

For example, a study published in the September 15, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reported that 17 % of dogs involved in fatal attacks on humans between 1979 and 1998 were restrained on their owners» property at the time of the attack.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, there have been no reported coyote attacks on humans in the neighborhoods.

(An article in the current issue of The Wildlife Professional (PDF)-- to which ABC refers in their media release — suggests that preventing coyote attacks on humans «might mean removing all exterior food sources such as trash, bird feeders, free - roaming cats, or tethered dogs.»

Of the dog attacks on humans reported in the study, a full 60 percent involved two breeds alone.

That said, the results show that while «fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed - specific problem (pit bull - type dogs and Rottweilers), other breeds may bite and cause fatalities at higher rates.

Pitbulls are disproportionately involved in serious attacks on humans, just as African Americans are found guilty of a disproportionate number of crimes in the United States.

Lockwood, who has studied wolves in the wild and canine attacks on humans and animals for 15 years, said the recent publicity about dog attacks has put a spotlight on the pit bull, a generic term for several breeds developed in England as fighting animals.

A rabies alert for Port Orange and South Daytona has been issued following two attacks on humans by feral cats during the past month.

The pit bull, in its purebred or mixed form, has been responsible for most of the fatal dog attacks on humans in the last two years, said Lockwood.

Statistically, when you look at dog attacks on humans, you will see that about 90 percent of dog bites are considered to be only minor injuries.

The pit bull, in its purebred or mixed form, has been responsible for most of the fatal dog attacks on humans in the last two years.

Of the 5,206 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the U.S. & Canada since September 1982, when I began logging the data, 3,595 (68 %) were pit bulls; 567 were Rottweilers; 4,713 (85 %) were of related molosser breeds, including pit bulls, Rottweilers, mastiffs, bull mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

Of them, only 44 are statistically represented in attacks on humans.

Although Pit Bulls have been responsible for attacks on humans and animals, other breeds like the

Of the 4,558 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the U.S. & Canada since September 1982, when I began logging the data, 2,923 (64 %) were pit bulls; 541 were Rottweilers; 3,696 were of related molosser breeds, including pit bulls, Rottweilers, mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Polar bear attacks on humans rising as climate changes»

Of 142 reported attacks on humans between 1960 and 2006, 70 percent occurred on or adjacent to the victim's residence and at least 30 percent near a site of prior intentional or unintentional human feeding.

But experts insist that while the great white's hunting habits do earn it the title of a seal serial killer, attacks on humans are rare.

A series of attacks on humans last year debunked a foolish notion that sharks actually are harmless cowards.

While I agree in the heinous attack on human life that is abortion, the way you write this is close to insanity.

This is why, Francis insists, we must oppose, not just assaults on the environment, but grave attacks on human rights — such as abortion and coercive population control — and condemn destructive gender ideologies, since «it is not healthy to cancel out sexual difference.»

It isn't an attack on something around human beings — their «environs» — but an attack on the human beings themselves, one that involves them at the level of their livelihood, just like the early labor wars.

On the eve of his assassination, his sermon was being broadcast on the radio, in which he condemned the attack on human rights and the violence done to the men, women and children.

Besides condemning abortion and euthanasia as attacks on human life, Evangelium Vitae addresses other hotly debated issues in medical ethics that implicate the value and dignity of human life.

Their empirical and policy analyses lead to morally prudent political and civic efforts to diminish these attacks on human dignity.

Dear friends — I am pleased to announce the release of my latest work entitled «Human Sexuality, Pornography and the Attack on Human Love,» which is now available on DVD as a two - part DVD set.

Britain has never been very interested in international affairs, so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited the Tory attack on human rights just days before appearing before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

Nick Clegg: Jack Straw's attack on the Human Rights Act is sly populism of the worst kind, and in keeping with his party's statist tradition

The agreement text gives us some grounds for hope on this score, but we have not yet seen how our new Conservative colleagues will respond to a renewed tabloid attack on the Human Rights Act.

Ben Bradshaw has said the new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - which the leader of the Catholic church in Scotland has called «a monstrous attack on human rights» - would be «to the potential benefit of many people in this country».

Bondy - Denomy says if someone launched a CRISPR attack on humans or our crops, anti-CRISPR could work as an antidote.

Two advocacy groups joined with cancer patients and doctors yesterday to launch a sweeping attack on human gene patents.