Sentences with phrase «know whether an animal»

Until recently, researchers working with octopuses and squids faced the dilemma of not knowing whether the animals were truly sedated or whether only their ability to respond had been suppressed.

«In previous studies, the increases in fructose consumption were accompanied by increases in overall food intake, so it is difficult to know whether the animals put on weight due to the fructose itself or simply because they were eating more,» Rhodes said.

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When animals kept as exotic pets show up in the wild it is usually difficult to know whether the animal escaped or was purposely released.

Now it is far more challenging to know whether animals are being treated properly in research labs, puppy mills, zoos, circuses, aquariums.

Shelters, rescue groups or private parties looking to place puppies and dogs often know whether an animal has successfully lived with one.

Not exact matches

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Whether we expose the harrowing sea journeys or the horror of being butchered alive, stabbed, beaten, and sledgehammered, we know that the risks our investigators face to capture this evidence are nothing compared to the risks animals face when no one is watching.

But whether they are from Australia, South America or Europe, while any animal continues to be exposed to all the known risks of live export — and with most still enduring fully conscious slaughter in importing countries — Animals Australia's investigations into this trade will continue.

Whether you're interested in plant - based proteins for health, environmental, or animal protection reasons, any change, no matter how small, can make a big impact.

We know there is growing interest in the way production animals are raised, and consumers are concerned whether current practices match their values and expectations.

Regardless of the Beauty Stage you're in when you get pregnant, whether you still eat some animal products or you no longer eat them at all, you can meet all of the nutritional goals for a healthy pregnancy.

Another way to test whether the baby knows his reflection: while he is looking in the mirror, put a toy or stuffed animal behind him.

And don't point out errors unless he wants you to — for example, if he wants to know whether he found all the hidden animals in a puzzle.

The definition does not make it clear, for example, whether it applies to microbes or animals not known to feel pain.

The answer to the question of whether the sponges or the comb jellies (also known as sea gooseberries) represent the oldest extant animal phylum is of crucial importance to our understanding of organismic evolution.

This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

Although the researchers don't know whether the embedded viral sequences have a function, they suspect they are helpful to the animals — otherwise, they wouldn't have endured through millions of years of evolution.

The team found that 89 % of the animal studies were not published at all, making it impossible for the IRBs to know whether the study had been reviewed by other experts.

Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the brain.

«Whether or not Patagotitan is the largest known dinosaur,» he says, «it fills an important gap in our understanding of these gigantic animals.»

And the trouble with extrapolating so much from mouse studies is that «nobody has actually shown over the long term how long these quote un-quote improvements persist, and we don't know whether it's broadly improving aspects of aging or it's specific to certain tissues,» said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist who studies aging in dogs and other animal models at the University of Washington.

But nobody knew whether the virus would be able to survive the winter, either in mosquitoes or their eggs, or in birds, the virus's animal reservoir.

He's eager to know whether this same set of genes is involved in social responsiveness of other animals.

«We want to know whether this fragmentation is resulting in reduced gene flow or inbreeding or other things that might be detrimental to the animals.

However, it is important to know whether the response depends on the abundance of grazing animals, particularly reindeer, voles and lemmings, which are very common in tundra ecosystems.

Some are known to be highly toxic to aquatic creatures, but little is known about whether they are actually harming frogs or other animals in the environment.

By comparing the hibernation habits of eastern dwarf lemurs and their western counterparts, researchers hope to shed light on what sends hibernating animals into standby mode, and whether lemurs — our closest genetic relatives known to hibernate — do it differently from other hibernating animals.

Researchers and health officials still do not even know whether bat - to - bat transmission, bat - to - human transmission or bat - to - other animal - to - human transmission is responsible for the beginning of the current outbreak.

DiChristina: Well you can set them to work then back on the ground and then see what the worms do, so in this way you can directly test what the animals are doing, you know, whether they interact with each other.

We know next to nothing about whether or not these animals — or invertebrates in general — actually suffer.

Michael Brooks asks whether animals know things (1 April, p 37).

Pietsch suspects that the light is bioluminescent — meaning, it's produced within the animal itself — but he notes that it's hard to know whether the structures are reflecting light from the submersible or are actually glowing.

The paper is «interesting and useful,» Hotez says, but there is still too much uncertainty in the numbers to know whether targeting animals will be necessary to eliminate the disease.

Washington knew that the mechanisms involved in vision tend to be similar throughout the animal kingdom, so he wondered whether chlorophyll could also enhance the vision of other animals, including humans.

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.

It's not known whether the leashes in the Shuwaymis rock art panels are literal or symbolic, but it certainly suggests these Holocene hunters had a lot of control over their dogs, that some dogs could have been more valuable than others (and therefore kept closer), and that the people likely bred and trained these animals.

«We already knew that the buildup of fibrin appears early in the development of MS — both in animal models and in human patients, so we wondered whether thrombin activity could in turn serve as an early marker of disease.»

You may already know many of them, but this time when you practice them, get in touch with your inner animal before you focus on whether you're toning your tummy or trimming your thighs.

The metal has been shown to trigger cancer in animals but it is not known whether or not this could cause the same problems in humans.»

No matter what the particulars of the diet — whether in the frozen north, the Alpine highlands or the tropical South Seas — traditional peoples consumed plentiful amounts of vitamins A, D and what Dr. Price referred to as Activator X — now determined to be vitamin K2 — from seafood, organ meats and the fat of grass - fed animals.

In that post, I addressed the question of whether we should avoid animal protein in order to optimize an important health - related process known as methylation.

In the end, all I really wanted to know was whether I should track ALL proteins I consume (and keep to Fontana's RDA) or only track the animal - based proteins and remain within the RDA for only those.

As for further health effects, absolutely no studies on carcinogenicity have been conducted in people or animals, so it's not known whether the chemical causes cancer.

As soon as I open a stomach, I know whether or not the animal has been eating grain, because whatever the animal has been fed is present in the paunch.

Since these studies looked at blood levels of retinol in the mothers rather than their food intake, we don't know whether low blood levels were the result of poor carotenoid intake from plant foods, poor retinoid intake from animal foods, or a combination of the two.

If you're into «slow food» — the ethical response to «fast food» — you probably want to know how the animals were treated or whether pesticides were used on your vegetables.

People with herpes or the survivor of brain herpes can no longer identify whether a drawing made is of a real animal or fictional Hybrid beast.

War Machine is unexpectedly flat and disjointed, and it's hard to know whether to blame this on Michôd (an Australian director best known for his excellent 2010 crime melodrama, Animal Kingdom) or the general bad vibes around the project.

Whether that's getting your favorite visitors to their maximum levels, setting up the perfect rock stage, or paying off the largest loan, there's no right or wrong way to win at Animal Crossing.