Sentences with phrase «help animals and their humans»

Our mission is to help animals and their humans achieve optimal health through compassion, shared knowledge and hospitality.

By funding these adoptable animals, you can be a part of our movement at YWAC as we help animals and humans alike find their loving forever companions.

On a daily basis, the two officers in the Animal Control division perform a variety of services that help animals and humans alike.

On a daily basis, officers in our Animal Control Unit perform a variety of services that help animals and humans alike.

We admire the runners fighting for the high - energy dogs, the nurturers fighting for the bottle babies, the suckers for cute who help socialize puppies and kittens, those who see the wisdom and beauty in the eyes of an older dog, the angels who take in hospice cases, the skilled caretakers who make medical rehabilitation possible, the big hearted fosters consistently serving as the bridge to a new life, the visionaries attacking the problem at its source through spay / neuter services and community outreach, the writers, photographers, videographers, and forces of marketing who make the animals shine, the adoption counselors and matchmakers who help animals and humans find each other, and the every day dog walkers, kennel cleaners, bowl fillers, and paperwork filers who provide the very foundation upon which the rest of us stand.

Not exact matches

Rice and I were discussing the effects of technology on human health and how it has certainly helped — but what about animals?

Myriad spiritual and high - tech options are available to help owners find their missing animals, but human trackers are still the best bet.

Play's attitudinal locus helps define not only the border between animal and human «play,» but also a second boundary — that between authentic and inauthentic play.

It may help if we consider the sexual instinct on two levels: the animal and the properly human.

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

Humans were to partner with the plants and with the animals to guide, help, and direct all things to work together in unison and for the purpose God intended.

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

Like MFM, the intention of the World Meatless Lunch initiative is to help people take small steps towards a greater goal: reducing global meat consumption and livestock production for the sake of human health, animal welfare and the environment.

While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that is better for humans, animals and the planet.»

Sorry, I can't offer that kind of help and I will never be quiet as long as there are people out there that believe a living breathing animal is worth little because it is not human.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect - borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer for Medgene Labs, an animal health company that develops therapeutics and diagnostics, including vaccines.

The findings of this work will help scientists identify possible shortcomings of current animal models and construct a more accurate picture of how genes work in humans.

Overuse of drugs on human patients and farm animals has helped fuel the rise of such drug resistance.

The physical energy and strength, with which nature insufficiently endowed humans, is found in animals that help them to discover new territories.»

Although the drug levodopa can relieve some symptoms, there is no cure — intensifying the pressure to find an animal model that can help clarify the pathological processes underlying human PD and find new medications to treat the pathology and / or relieve symptoms.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

The price for trainer and dog to travel and work for a week would range between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000, but using other specialized tests — say, genetic fingerprinting to help investigators distinguish between animal and human fecal bacteria — would cost more than $ 100,000, Bell said.

Stories on animals that didn't need human help to become tame; false news spreads deeper, wider, and faster than true news — with or without bots; and listening for gender and sexual orientation in human speech

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

Whether the species is a pronghorn, a 200 - pound jaguar or a pygmy owl, the fortifications and human activity can not help but impede animals» movements and reproductive behavior.

That kind of monitoring helped scientists understand the factors that trigger flu viruses to jump from animals to humans — and it may one day lead to a similar understanding for Ebola.

Foley could have missed a viable answer to world hunger that would also help mitigate climate change: insects as human and other animal food.

The discovery may help reveal how humans and other animals evolved from single - celled organisms over the last 600 million years.

Although my experiences in basic animal research were rewarding, I felt I was too far removed from the «human condition» and wanted to do research that could more directly affect (and hopefully help) people.

But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.

The authors suggest that the observed laws might describe a variety of dynamic phenomena from the motion of synthetic active particles to animal flocks and herds, human crowd or opinion dynamics and help to formulate the general laws of collective behaviour.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida's state animal recover have had limited success

RUN has allowed us to take this idea from nerve cells, to animal models and eventually will help us investigate whether it could be a feasible treatment in humans.

Sheldrake contends that a variety of messages can be communicated telepathically between animals and humans, including fear, alarm, excitement, calls for help, anticipation of arrivals or departures, and distress.

Surveillance of animal mortality may help to predict and prevent human Ebola outbreaks.

«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

Indeed, she states provocatively, in the process of becoming human we gave up something primal, and being around animals helps us get a measure of that back.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

«Gaining a better understanding of the functions genes perform in cells, whether plant or animal, is going to help us understand how to diagnose and treat diseases in humans,» says Richard K. Wilson of Washington University.

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

It could be used to diagnose almost any human disease, sometimes before symptoms appear, help identify new drugs, and even change the way we use animal models to understand disease.

«With the help of animal biologists, we found that chem7 had no effect on budding yeasts and human cells, which indicates that chem7 does not inhibit the cell division of animal cells.»

That helps keep toxic metal out of forests, fields and waterways — and the digestive systems of humans who eat game animals.

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»

«These findings help us understand risks to these animals from human sound and inform timely conservation and management decisions.»

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»