Sentences with phrase «in cages»

Wester and colleagues placed other bees in cages with flowers whose pollen - producing anthers and pollen - collecting stigmas had been stained with fluorescent dyes.

Mice living in cages with these fabrics for up to six months had more cell damage in their liver and brain than mice who weren't exposed to this third - hand smoke.

The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.

«Ferrets may be the best model for influenza, but ferrets in cages treated with antipyretics are very different from human populations,» he says.

They captured 97 free - ranging pigeons (Columba livia) in the highly urbanized suburbs of Paris and kept them in cages outdoors for 1 year, feeding them a diet of corn, wheat, and peas.

We all know that mice like to run on wheels in cages, but wild mice will do the same on a wheel placed outside.

After the cognitive training phase of the experiment, all three sets of mice remained in their cages for a month.

Researchers surprised by inconsistent results wonder what hidden variables may lurk in these cages.

The animals no longer compulsively buried marbles in their cages and increased their ultrasonic squeaking to typical levels.

A day later, three uninfected ferrets were placed inside cages with the infected animals, and another three uninfected ferrets were placed in cages nearby.

Small passerines are commonly kept in cages, and may be capable of seeing roughly as fast as their wild relatives.

Breeding centers in Nepal and India have raised more than 300 chicks, but most are still being held in cages, because of fears they will wind up poisoned if released.

To test the idea, they gave some mice an injection of VIP into the brain before fast - forwarding the light / dark cycle in their cages by 8 hours.

He says, however, because they are small and easy to keep in captivity — unlike wild mice, which are notoriously difficult to maintain in cages — wall lizards would make a good model species for experiments designed to determine the effects of toxins on mortality, reproduction and growth.

All the birds in cages that produce lots of eggs — regardless of which individuals are doing the egg - laying — get to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next generation.

The others had exercise wheels in their cages and were allowed to run whenever they wanted to.

In this case, they discovered that not all of the argon gets trapped in the cages — a small amount goes to the interface between the framework and ruthenium surface.

Control mice, for example, spent more time sniffing around a new item placed in their cages than investigating familiar objects — a sign that their ability to react to novelty was intact.

Booth then put the rats in cages with running wheels and measured how much each rat willingly ran on their wheels during a six - day period.

Methane hydrates consist of molecules of methane trapped in cages of H20.

To model the virus's spread in people, they housed ferrets inoculated with the reassortants in cages adjacent to healthy ferrets so the animals could pass on virus through the air.

In cages, they often try to crawl upside - down on the bars that cover the cage.

This, the inventors believe, is because battery - farmed chickens grow up in cages made of galvanized sheet metal.

Then the main lights went off, and it was time to put the birds in their cages: Wart first, then Alex, then the always reluctant Griffin.

The team collected aquatic organisms from the sea floor and placed them in cages underwater.

And they confirmed the brutal nature of green crabs: When confined in cages and pitted one against another, green crabs evicted marsh crabs from their burrows.

More than 85 % of the marsh crabs died in the cages, they report online this week in Ecology, which were littered with broken shells and severed limbs.

Sergio Pellis at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, put juvenile rats in cages that allowed them to sniff, groom and interact with others, but not to engage in rough - and - tumble play.

Last year, 6000 tonnes of pilchards were imported from Chile, Japan, Ireland and California to feed to tuna being fattened in cages at Port Lincoln in South Australia.

The clamp infuses glucose or insulin around the clock into mice that are moving freely in their cages.

They recorded a total of 57 bird species in the cages, including globally near - threatened Asian golden weavers and vulnerable yellow - breasted buntings.

«But in certain situations, it creates a trade purely for demand for animals in cages.»

The birds were locked in cages in Frankfurt, Germany, where they were being studied by biologist Hans Fromme.

The culprit in that outbreak was the Chinese horseshoe bat, which was stored in cages next to other species for sale.

In the real world, rats don't spend their lives in cages waiting for lights to turn on; these experiments don't capture the complex role that fear plays in a wild rat's life.

So Palese's team exposed hundreds of guinea pigs to a human flu strain at different temperatures and humidities, in cages that allowed only air to pass from sick animals to well ones.

They put wild rats in cages and then brought cats gradually closer to them.

They just put them in cages that simulated the magnetic field of Moscow, while still allowing the birds to experience the sun, stars and smells of the Baltic.

«Zebra finches are literally right in front of us in cages around the world,» she says.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called for the practice of keeping children in cages to be stopped as soon as she learned of it, and the prison service issued a statement saying the situation had been improved following the «criticism».

Update: After original publication of its report, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel released an amended version, acknowledging that the information from the Public Defender's Office about child prisoners being kept in cages did not refer specifically to Palestinians.

Conditions for broilers are marginally better, insofar as they are not raised in cages, but on the ground, but again in cramped, dark and hot sheds.

The New York Court of Appeals denied leave to appeal in two cases over chimpanzees being held in cages by owners upstate, which leaves the lower appellate court's ruling in place.

What I found most off - putting about the book, however, is the suggestion that parents who choose to use cribs are really placing their child in cages because they don't want to be bothered at night.

There are birds in cages which they let out during the day and iguanas running around the grounds as well.

I used to always get on my husband's case for drinking too much Mtn Dew (and really, he does drink way too much) but I now have 5 kids, including 1 yr old twins, and Mtn Dew is sometimes the only thing that keeps me from locking all the kids in cages and going back to bed lol (no, I would never really lock my kids in cages).

Put a few trollers back in their cages about a one man team.

Ozil and RVP learned their skills playing in the cages, Ronaldo got rid of his weaknesses by being the first and last to leave practice, look at him now and compare him to Rooney and you'll see why the England team has been on the decline.

«You have to cither keep them in cages or kill them.»

But giving a little comfort and stimulation for animals who will be in those cages their whole lives is worth fighting for, even as we demand those empty cages.