Sentences with phrase «clear whether animals»

Neighborhood residents frequently report dogs running freely between houses, and it's not always clear whether the animals are pets that are allowed to roam free (which is, of course, irresponsible), or if they're strays.

Not exact matches

«The question remains whether the same gains in animal welfare could have been made through a simpler, clearer and ultimately cheaper system.»

The clear sides allow baby to see what's inside, whether it's a tiny car, a zoo animal, or a cool spinner.

The definition does not make it clear, for example, whether it applies to microbes or animals not known to feel pain.

While it's clear that high doses of phthalates are harmful to animals, it remains to be shown whether these effects translate to humans.

What has not been clear, says Anders Garm at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, is whether these cells simply tell the starfish about ambient light levels, as happens in more primitive light - sensitive animals, or whether they actually form spatial images.

* Update, 7 December, 11:30 a.m.: This item has been updated to indicate that although Zika has been shown to infect mice, it is not clear whether it would have similar effects on pregnant animals as it may in humans.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

It wasn't clear for instance, whether the animal testing provisions — which were in the Senate bill, but not the House's — would ultimately survive.

This means it is still not clear whether companies may patent genetically modified plants and animals in Europe, as they can in the US.

While monkeys may be infected with the bacterium, it's not yet clear whether the infection can pass from human to animal and vice versa, said Sheila Lukehart, a UW professor of medicine and global health who co-authored the study.

However, because they don't engage the immune system the way antibodies do, and because of questions of stability and potency, it was not clear whether they would be able to prevent infection in animals, or eventually, in humans.

The most clear finding of thousands of nutrition studies — regardless of whether we eat animal flesh, or we don't — is that vegetables, fruits, and other plant foods, virtually all of them high in fiber, are extremely important in the diet.

The evidence is fairly strong that higher levels of animal fat result in greater risk for colon cancer, but it is not clear whether that is due to the fat or other compounds in meat.

(It's possible, but not yet clear whether or not this could contribute to anemia in animals and humans.)

Throw in some weed and a lengthy debate about whether it's possible to taste animals» fear, and it should be clear that even a defanged adaptation could only fuck up this material so much.

The ad should be titled «Lost Cat» or «Lost Dog» and should include your phone number, the date that the animal was lost, where she was last seen, and a clear, brief description containing the animal's name, breed, color, sex, age, and whether she was wearing a collar.

Since 1997 the MBTC has been working closely with the Animal Health Trust at Newmarket to collect blood samples and gather funding to enable work to be done on determining a genetic test to identify the PLL gene and determine whether a given dog is affected, a carrier or clear.

Whether President Trump is directly responsible for the website purging isn't clear, but one member of his USDA transition team, Brian Klippenstein, has a long history of fighting animal welfare organizations.

During voir dire for a DUI case, Seidler asked potential jurors questions such as whether they liked animals, whether they could «envision the coffee table in front of them» or describe a house that they might see if, hypothetically, they were in a forest and came to a clearing.