Sentences with phrase «in other animal groups»

The researchers will now focus on determining how widespread this hormone is in other animal groups related to the worms, such as snails or mussels, to get further insight into its role in the animal kingdom.

Not exact matches

You can «zoom in» on plants and other creatures and become «one» with them, then create a group of animals.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animalIn an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animalin reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

For a meat product to be certified organic it must also have been processed at a certified organic abattoirs which keeps cattle in their social groups, provides comfortable holding pens with feed, water and bedding, don't kill animals in the line of sight of other animals and render animals unconscious before they're killed.

One group of the animals exercised in the fasting state while the others had sugar, whole milk, or whey protein.

We are a peak body representing some 40 other animal welfare groups in Australia, each working in a specific area.

Certified organic abattoirs keep cattle in their social groups, provide comfortable holding pens with feed, water and bedding, don't kill animals in the line of sight of other animals and render animals unconscious before they're killed.

In the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuiIn the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuiin a lawsuit.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the bill's sponsor, Jessica Lappin, said the legislation was a response to an animal «emergency» in New York, and released statements in support of the new law from the ASPCA and PETA, among other animal - advocacy groups.

In the animals receiving the sphincters, fecal continence was restored throughout a three month follow - up period, compared to the other groups, which did not improve.

Other groups have attempted to induce PANDAS in animals, says James Leckman, a pediatric psychiatry researcher at Yale University, who was not involved in the study, but the results from those studies were inconsistent.

The evolution of complexity The traditional view of the issue postulates that the sponges were the first group to diverge from the lineage that gave rise to all other animals — in other words, Porifera are the sister group of all other animal species.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

Zoologists are taught that life starts with animals, and they block out four - fifths of the information in biology [by ignoring the other four major groups of life] and all of the information in geology.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

In addition to foraging for plants and berries (when available), nomadic groups hunted caribou, reindeer and other animals for food, typically with spears or darts (thrown from atlatl boards).

The new results support the group's hypothesis that in humans and other song - learning animals, the ability to imitate arose by brain pathway duplication.

At the end of the last ice age, both horse groups became extinct in North America, along with other large animals like woolly mammoths and saber - toothed cats.

We have seen animals in groups of 40 or more that stay exactly the same distance away from each other and swim vertically to create a shape resembling a double helix.

That's the demand made in a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by an animal law expert at Harvard University, together with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and several other animal welfare groups.

Still, he says, other groups have arrived at opposing results regarding the role of T cells in the disease, in part, perhaps, because their animal models aren't the same.

While feasting, the animals — just slightly bigger than mice — huddle together in a small group and appear to lick each other's faces.

They found that, within the first three days of injury, fish in the concussion group were slower to find a school of fish with which they previously swam, a measure of spatial memory which is impaired in other animal models of concussion and human patients.

The researchers monitored groups of neurons in the visual processing areas of macaque monkeys as the animals paid attention to one particular stimuli and ignored others around them.

The beetles boast more species than any other plant or animal group — 330,000 in their order, Coleoptera.

In general, the group's lyrics are distinctly naturalist — painting pictures of wildlife and untouched ecosystems — but birds tend to appear in these narratives more often than other animalIn general, the group's lyrics are distinctly naturalist — painting pictures of wildlife and untouched ecosystems — but birds tend to appear in these narratives more often than other animalin these narratives more often than other animals.

They were doing exactly what I'd seen them do before with each other: An animal in their group gets scared, or is threatened, and they hug each other in solidarity.

The animals make close friendships, hoot in celebration, and kiss each other in greeting.Such behavior is even more exaggerated among the lightly built bonobos, each of which uses sex with every member of the group — male and female both — to say hello or calm tensions.

The tick enmeshed in the feather belongs to the same group of ticks as the deer ticks that bite humans and other animals today.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

In a similar way, we and other groups have early data that exposure of rats and mice to high levels of social stress can make the offspring of those animals more susceptible to social stress, again something that persists for several generations.

The growth of plaques in animals receiving APOE3 was intermediate between that of the other two groups and similar to what was seen in control animals.

For years, scientists have been debating the phylogenetic position of brachiopods and molluscs, as well as their affinities for other animals in the same group, the Lophotrochozoa, comprising segmented worms, clams, oysters, snails, squids, and so on.

The Birds have however interested me much more than the insects, they are proportionally much more numerous, and throw great light on the laws of Geographical distribution of Animals in the East... As an instance I may mention the Cockatoos, a group of birds confined to Australia & the Moluccas, but quite unknown in Java Borneo Sumatra & Malacca... Many other species illustrate the same fact.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

A federal appeals court in Colorado last week vacated a temporary ban on U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening.

«In less than a year, our group and others have demonstrated that multiple vaccine platforms can provide robust protection against Zika virus challenge in animal modelIn less than a year, our group and others have demonstrated that multiple vaccine platforms can provide robust protection against Zika virus challenge in animal modelin animal models.

As a result, corridors are being hailed by some conservation groups, especially in the US, as potential saviours of the Florida panther, North American black bear (Ursus americanus) and many other high - profile animals.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund in San Francisco, California, and three other groups asked Judge William H. Orrick of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California to issue a preliminary injunction requiring USDA to immediately return all the records to public view.

«Fossils from classic areas in North America and Europe have been studied for over a century, but there are long - standing questions about how different animal groups dispersed to other areas that we can't answer using just those fossils,» said Angielczyk.

The findings were surprising to the group, as no other animal has been found to have a sex - linked difference in the make - up of its eye that depends on the suppression of an opsin gene.

Ironmonger lists 130 other safari parks, aquaria, bird gardens and so on, as well as the 31 described at length; he has sections on the different animal groups kept in zoos and — extremely useful — a chart showing where all of the 350 different mammalian species and subspecies in British zoos are to be found.

Genes that are grouped together on chromosomes in other animals were dispersed in the octopus genome, likely as a result of transposon activity.

The discovery offers new insights into how social animals evolved and communicate with others in their group, the researchers say.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia aniGroup - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia anigroup of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

Sperm whales live in groups of up to 12 individuals, but once in a while come together in mass «scratchathons» — congregations of hundreds of animals who rub against each other, shedding encrusted layers of skin in a gathering that has both a social and an exfoliating function.

Balafoutas describes the underlying theory as follows: «Our basic assumption is that humans, in contrast to animals, cooperate with each other on various levels — not just in small groups, but also with strangers.»

For animals living in such small groups, it is especially important to accurately identify other members of their species.