Sentences with phrase «higher animals such»

Dogs are more complex than a light switch... flip the switch up, the light goes on... but it doesn't work that way with animal behavior, especially higher animals such as mammals.

Overall, it is known that DDT concentrates in biological systems (particularly in body fat), that it is a toxin, and that it bioaccumulates up the food chain, reaching its greatest concentrations in higher animals such as humans.

Not exact matches

Passengers who increasingly bring along comfort animals say they calm them during stressful flights, or alert them to problems such as high or low blood sugar.

However, at least in the higher animals, such responses can be overcome by association of other entities with the signal.

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

Hence the full analysis of these animals requires not only the recognition that all the entities that make up their bodies are internally related to other such entities but also that there is present another set of entities of a much higher grade of experience which constitute the psyche, soul, or mind of the animal.

What at stake is not merely the logical possibility of a particular, limited situation, such as higher values without predation, or animals who need no food.

The difference is that in man and the higher animals there is a unique coordination of many such occasions over a particular area called the body, and a unique inheritance of past occasions that is able consciously to identify a self through history.

Furthermore, we know that animals have higher order emotions such as love and companionship and clearly do not follow Christianity (and other religions) disproves your idea.

Higher animals all seem to contain at least one such society, called a «living person,» present in the body in addition to the cells and molecules of the central nervous system, even though dependent upon them.

In this regard, we described two types of biologically - based teleologies: (i) an external teleology, where there is a deliberate and conscious setting of goals, those that are generally found among human beings and possibly in higher animals; and (ii) an internal teleology, where there is no self - directed or conscious goal - seeking on the part of living organisms, such as in the natural selection of favorable traits among biologically adaptive species.

The attainment of such conformation would belong to the perfection of nature in respect to the higher types of its animal life.

It's important to make sure the gelatin powder you choose is from grass - fed animals, otherwise it won't be as high in anti-inflammatory amino acids, such as glycine, which allow it to be such an amazing health food (this means, unfortunately, the packaged gelatin you find in grocery stores doesn't qualify).

Yes, chocolate is a fantastic food to improve your mood — so long as it's high - quality and not filled with sugar, animal products such as milk or cream, or odd ingredients that you can't pronounce.

High - profile devotees, such as actors Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson and Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, shun animal products and heat - processed grains; they eat nuts, seeds, sprouted grains, fruits and vegetables — ones that haven't been heated past 118 °F.

When City were cruising against the Hammers at the beginning of the season, home keeper Willy Caballero dropped a clanger, and the former Barca boss subsequently kicked an imaginary cat high into the Etihad animal kingdom, such was his frustration.

It's important to note though that plant sources of Iron are not as well absorbed as animal sources (such as meat, poultry, fish and eggs), but if you pair these iron - rich leafy greens with either iron - rich animal foods or foods high in Vitamin C such as citrus fruits, strawberries or bell peppers, this helps with the absorption of the iron.

In countries where people eat high levels of animal products, such as Norway and numerous Western countries, only a small percentage of pregnant women have a vitamin B12 deficiency.

Such farming involves large fields and / or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of mechanization.

In a study published last month, he and his colleagues suggest that oxygen levels were already high enough to support simple animals, such as sponges, hundreds of millions of years before they actually appeared.

But Higgins notes that could create misleading results: The animals Weiss tested had never been exposed to such high CO2 concentrations before.

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Some animals signal vitality through high - maintenance «badges of status,» such as the peacock's plume, whereas others have badges that seem to impose no inherent cost to the creature, raising the question of why such individuals do not simply cheat.

Lee adds: «Such aspects include effective use of land unsuitable for growing crops, production of higher quality protein and more bioavailable micronutrients, improved animal welfare, prosperous rural communities and flood prevention.

There is also a higher rate of such abnormalities in cloned animals.

The researchers now want to study whether the signal molecules in higher animals, such as mice, have the same effect.

But the experts doubt that future analysis of the Thames whale will show high levels of pollutants as this species generally feeds on animals near the bottom of the food chain — such as squid.

Such «couch - potato» animals develop a range of health problems, including insulin resistance, diabetes, high blood pressure, impaired brain function, increased oxidative stress and inflammation.

Other animals, such as the common house cat or beluga whale (see illustration), can have comparable or even wider dynamic ranges in higher frequency bands.

At 24 kilohertz, the waves used are too high - pitched to be audible to humans — but can be heard by animals such as cats or bats.

Artificial selection was probably weakest and gene flow highest in the case of pack animals such as donkeys or camelids.

I imagine most people will agree with Marc Bekoff that it is high time we recognised that animals are conscious (22 September, p 24), but I wonder if he is not naive in supposing that such recognition will help to stop the abuse of animals.

Most states and about half of high - population cities and counties had organizational infrastructure for managing animals in a disaster, such as a State or County Animal Response Team.

«Our results suggest that exotic earthworms could be responsible for the high levels of toxic metals in ground foraging animals such as birds, amphibians and even mammals across New England,» says lead author Justin Richardson, who recently received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth's Department of Earth Sciences.

Although animal ingredients are used, the majority of such traditional treatments rely on bitter herbs and flowers to cure everything from insomnia to high cholesterol, as I found out after submitting to an examination by a trained doctor at the store.

As this method is efficacious in biological materials for which genetic operation was difficult, it has been used mainly for higher eukaryotes such as animals and plants.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

However, during this period the mean firing rate is consistently higher in the self - timed task, in which the animal can not rely upon an external cue, than in the mapping task, in which such cue is available.

Such farming involves large fields and / or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides and fertilizers), and a high level of mechanization.

The Center for Predictive Medicine recognizes the challenges of translational research such as in designing and implementing high - throughput screens and assessing small molecules and potential vaccines for their efficacy in small animal models of disease.

Such articles circulate, because there's a high degree of genetic illiteracy, as demonstrated by a poll in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, in which 33 percent of respondents reported thinking that non-GM tomatoes «did not contain genes» and 32 percent said that «vegetables did not have DNA [unless modified with DNA from animals].»

Animals designed to eat high - fruit diets, such as birds and orangutans, have specialized digestive systems that allow the slow digestion of fruits.

Our digestive system is designed for smaller - quantity, higher - nutrient - density foods, such as cooked foods and animal products.

Animal research has linked such increases to a higher risk for developing anxiety and depression, explained study author Jiook Cha, an assistant professor in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

They examined how joints were affected by diets rich in various saturated fatty acids that are found in foods such as animal fat, coconut oil, butter and palm oil, and simple carbohydrates, basically a high carbohydrate, high - fat diet typical of «junk food».

Scientists were successful in reversing mitochondrial decay in old rats by feeding them alpha lipoic acid and acetyl - carnitine in higher levels, which served to speed up the enzymes» ability to function as well as to increase cognition and improve heart rate.23 Animal - based foods such as beef, chicken, milk and cheese are good sources of acetyl - carnitine.24

Any more than 10 % will likely be excessive and there is evidence that chronic disease rates increase at such high amounts, especially when including animal foods.»

Everyone knows that food from animals such as poultry and red meat are high in protein.