Sentences with phrase «groups of animals known»

Sea turtles belong to a group of animals known as Reptilia, which includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles and alligators, even dinosaurs.

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[9] One group of animal protectionists, [10] known as Christian Animal Rights activists (CAR), assert that Scripture and science require us to protect animals from harm stemming from human behanimal protectionists, [10] known as Christian Animal Rights activists (CAR), assert that Scripture and science require us to protect animals from harm stemming from human behAnimal Rights activists (CAR), assert that Scripture and science require us to protect animals from harm stemming from human behavior.

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Absent from that group are the animal rights groups that have fervently pushed for a total ban of the horse carriage industry, including New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, better known as NYCLASS.

To develop the test, the researchers targeted unique stretches of DNA or RNA from every known group of viruses that infects humans and animals.

Indeed, the «Cambrian explosion» — the burst of evolution about 540 million years ago that included the birth of most of the major animal groups we know today — was enabled by oxygen deprivation, the researchers say.

Many animals yawn, but only humans and a few other primates are known to trigger cascades of yawns around a group.

Five years after a caver in New York State first stumbled across a group of bats with white noses (including several dead ones), the disease known as white - nose syndrome has killed more than a million of the animals.

We wanted to know if these creatures were part of a group of animals that survived or a failed evolutionary experiment.

He got, you know, some European patents, a couple of American patents eventually, and with part of a group that got money from the Dutch government in 2005, I think it was, $ 2 million to explore the idea of being able to grow in vitro meat and to produce meat, you know, outside of the animal.

Therapsids roamed the Earth and dominated terrestrial ecosystems well before dinosaurs and are known from all continents in the world, but South Africa has by far the most diverse and long - ranging record of this important group of animals.

Picking up on recent discoveries that the Notch - modifying enzyme known as Rumi is necessary for animal development and that various mutants of Rumi are linked with a form of skin hyperpigmentation known as Dowling - Degos disease (made by scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Bonn, Germany), Li's group became focused on this particular enzyme.

People have been looking at this group of animals for protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but there has been no way to know which of the groups need protection because the filters are cut out and the rest of the animal is discarded, she said.

She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.

Dr Webb added: «When we concentrate on those groups of animals and plants which are best known, and where estimates of extinction risk are likely to be most reliable, the difference between marine and non-marine species disappears.

A group of researchers says that the closest known evolutionary cousin of whales, dolphins and porpoises is not the hippopotamus, as conventional wisdom has it, but an extinct deer - like animal roughly the size of a fox or raccoon.

«It is known from previous studies in animals that the active neural pattern during a certain experience is reactivated once this experience ends, so the idea was to observe in a group of volunteers what happened at the brain level when a certain episode ended,» explains researcher Ignacio Soles.

Animal advocates, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have long pressured SeaWorld to free its whales and dolphins, a group collectively known as cetaceans.

«It is almost impossible for us to know exactly where any one group of animals evolved because the fossil record is always very incomplete,» Hu says.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

The third group of organisms comprises all visible life, such as humans, animals, and fungi — collectively known as eukaryotes.

«These levels are known to impact both the human experience in national parks and have a range of repercussions for wildlife... so animals use sounds for many essential life functions, such as predator avoidance, navigation, finding food, mate attraction and maintenance of social groups.

Orcas are known to communicate amongst themselves using an array of sounds, and the animals have even demonstrated «dialects» — variations in communication signals that are specific to certain groups of the animals — the scientists reported in a new study.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

In addition, Mexico fish are the animal group best known from the point of view parasitological, so that a joint effort between farmers and scientists will greatly benefit, «the researcher INECOL.

These «delayed response tasks» suggest that working memory, at the level of brain cells, is the result of self - sustaining patterns of neural activity — a group of neurons starts firing when the initial information is presented and maintains that firing internally when the stimulus is no longer present until the animal acts on that information.

At the end of this period, the groups fed the sweet or oily chow were no heavier or fatter than were the animals fed the plain chow.

Most major animal groups appear for the first time in the fossil record some 545 million years ago on the geological time scale in a relatively short period of time known as the Cambrian explosion.

Moreover, this burst of animal forms led to most of the major animal groups we know today, that is, every extant Phylum.

The researchers used a technique called RNA interference (RNAi) to screen a group of genes known to be involved in animal development, in order to study the signaling mechanisms that regulate whether the animal would produce a head or tail during regeneration.

Basically, Bufo was a huge group that included hundreds of species — we just didn't know which of these animals were most closely related to which other ones.

Yet, amazingly, Dr. Campbell never informs us that while soy protein or wheat protein alone does not promote cancer, as a group plant proteins do contain all the amino acids to promote cancer, and that we now know that «the natural variety of plant proteins that we encounter every day» can, in fact, promote cancer just as powerfully as animal protein.

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No matter what the story, they almost always revolve around an entity, whether that is an individual, a group of individuals a family, an animal, you name it.

For the most powerful and largest of the suicide cults — a group named Heaven's Gate, originally from California — had also let it be known that animals occupied a «Level Below Human,» as the cultists put it, and must be exterminated to enable suicided cult members to travel more readily to the «Level Above Human.»

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Why: To raise money for your favorite local animal welfare group (any of Best Friends» local NKUT and No More Homeless Pets Network partners) or for Best Friends Animal Society, and to help Save Themanimal welfare group (any of Best Friends» local NKUT and No More Homeless Pets Network partners) or for Best Friends Animal Society, and to help Save ThemAnimal Society, and to help Save Them All ®

Created by an active duty military couple with several animals of their own, the group knows first - hand the value of trusted animal care.

«Even if you are just someday looking to adopt a pet, this is a great opportunity to come down and learn about the different groups and different types of animals so when you are ready to adopt, you know where to go and you are better educated,» Bank said.

While I am not familiar with the adoption policies of all the rescue groups and shelters in the area, I do know that many of them do not adopt out animals the same day that you meet them.

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We are a small local group of volunteers operating a Registered, Non-profit Charitable Society known as Vernon & District Animal Care Society (or VDACS).

Since 2012, Best Friends has been working with a group of more than 120 coalition partners, including LA Animal Services, as part of its No Kill Los Angeles initiative with a goal of making LA the nation's largest no kill city by the end of 2017.

The Association for a Pet Adoption Center (APAC) is a 501 (c) 3 not - for profit group of concerned volunteers who are working toward a time when homeless, unwanted animals are no longer being destroyed in our shelter, and when every dog and cat can be guaranteed a good life in a caring environment.

Other situations are cases of breeders who want to dump a large group of animals who have not been cared for and have been know to have serious health issues.»

He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has created successful no - kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

Then known as the Georgetown County Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the group pushed for — and won — significant improvements in humane care for animals and made great strides in ensuring better efforts were made to find responsible adoptiveAnimals, the group pushed for — and won — significant improvements in humane care for animals and made great strides in ensuring better efforts were made to find responsible adoptiveanimals and made great strides in ensuring better efforts were made to find responsible adoptive homes.

The participating shelters and rescue groups include members of the No - Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) Coalition, along with many other county shelters and other local animal welfare organizations.

Dr Bruce teaches to small groups of pet / horse owners about Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Therapy so that they can make the right choices for their animals, this course empowers owners to know more about this Holistic Medicine and to understand the treatments given to their pets or horses.

He is a past member of the very well - known animal advocacy group Sea Shepherd.