Sentences with phrase «excreta of»

Many ridiculous hypothesis were started to account for its origin, and among others it was conjectured to be the solidified foam of the sea, a rungoid growth in the ocean similar to the fungi which form on trees, the excreta of sea - birds, & c.

Just look at it as an ordinary litter box with built - in mechanism for separating and scooping the excreta of your feline friend.

Hyraceum, also called «Africa stone,» is the petrified and rocklike excreta of the rock hyrax, a medium - size mammal that looks like a big guinea pig and whose closest living relative, oddly, is the elephant.

Not exact matches

Eire does not give much away in his personal assessment of Luther, though alongside a meticulous analysis of the theology we get ample quotation illustrating Luther's disconcerting penchant for scatological insult and a preoccupation with excreta aimed indiscriminately at Catholics and the devil.

When our news team visited the crime scene on Monday, a strange development was noticed: human excreta was found near the very spot where the victim was discovered, a development some superstitious residents believe is meant to foil attempts to track perpetrators of the heinous crime.

Ace comedian Babatunde Omidina yesterday narrated how the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) made him fish through his excreta in search of alleged drugs.

Some residents of New Takoradi have expressed displeasure about the indiscriminate dumping of human excreta into gutters, market places and in the sea by some members of the community.

NiV is directly transmissible to people, often via the consumption of date palm sap, which the bats contaminate with saliva or excreta.

It is the default method of excreta disposal in most of the industrialized, technologically advanced world.

Toilet historians, of which there are few, attribute the modern flush toilet to Sir John Harington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, who thought his godmother might like something that flushed away her excreta and devised the Ajax, a play on the Elizabethan word «jakes», meaning privy.

Pitted dates, for example, are condemned only if 5 percent or more of each batch are contaminated by dead insects or their excreta.

This form of nitrogen is more abundant in animal tissues and excreta than in plants.

To test if the trees profit from the presence of bats by incorporating nutrients from bat excreta into their seeds, the researchers analysed a specific form of nitrogen, the stable isotope 15N.

An international team of scientists recently discovered that seeds of a tropical tree species, which regularly hosts bats in large hollows, contain nutrients from bat excreta.

Determining the source of fecal water contamination, can protect humans and the environment from potentially pathogenic E. coli from human and animal excreta.

Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.

The honey - suckers of Bangalore are evidence that the world of excreta is being turned upside down.

[34] As urine contains phosphorus, it has fertilising qualities which are still harnessed today in some countries, including Sweden, using methods for reuse of excreta.

«They are balls of bark and wasp excreta that once nurtured a wasp larva,» Dr. Gunter explains on her site, and they «grow when a gall wasp punctures an oak tree and deposits larva.»

At the end of the 7 - d exposures in rabbits, about 3.2 percent of the available permethrin had reached the skin, 2 percent having been recovered from excreta (absorbed) and 1.2 percent remaining on the skin surface.»

No; none of us in the BB&W Crew buy this horse excreta, but many, many MANY others do.

I do understand with a background in the rarified world of NYC publishing that such vulgar agricultural matters may not come his way much, despite the vast quantity of male bovine excreta produced there.

In 1947, a man named Ed Lowe realized that fuller's earth — a blend of clay materials that has long been used to extract grease and other impurities from cloth — was a highly effective and marketable receptacle for cat excreta.

However, instead of a fully automated raking system, you'll be the one to manually «sift» the excreta without ever touching it.

However, if you plan on using it as their permanent home, you need to clean it frequently to prevent a buildup of excreta and urine.

2) The story of one case in which inspectors foudn 13 violations of current laws, including excessive excreta, feces, weeds, trash, unclean facilities and no shade for some dogs.

She had long, thin, red lines that meandered over the skin of her forearms and chest: dog or cat tapeworms — quite a common problem among those who sunbathe on tropical beaches contaminated with animal excreta.

Nearly 20 % of the world population — mainly in rural areas - still practise open defecation, resulting in 300 million tons of untreated human excreta polluting fresh water resources each year.

But even as toilets get built, the challenge of managing excreta grows....

We know that current technologies, which use large amounts of clean water to transport small amounts of excreta through expensive pipes to costly treatment plants, are unworkable and unaffordable in much of the world.

Narain is the director general of the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi and author of a new two - volume book, «Excreta Matters: How Urban India is Soaking up Water, Polluting Rivers and Drowning in its Own Waste.»

The Clivus Multrum composting toilets at the Philip Merrill Center are waterless and allow the nutrients in human excreta to be used as a fertilizer instead of polluting the bay.

«Safe and productive use of solid and liquid waste» implies using rainwater or wastewater (treated or untreated) and organic waste (including human / animal excreta) in small - scale urban and peri-urban agricultural production, as part of resilient urban development.

There are numerous examples of the cholera apparently being transmitted by consumption of water polluted by excreta.

In developing countries - where food is scarce and reliable energy supplies are even scarcer - necessity often becomes the mother of invention; so it is in Uganda, where farmers have resorted to using human urine and excreta -

Designed by Appasheb Patwardan in India in the 1940s, takes advantage of a special characteristic of human excreta: feces transmit pathogens, but urine is sterile.