Sentences with phrase «life as an elephant»

Thanks to the similarity of their genomes, the genes of woolly mammoth traits can be edited into the Asian elephant genome, and the combination brought to life as an elephant cousin, once again adapted for the conditions of the far north.

Not exact matches

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

Let's turn our attention for a moment to the elephant in the living room, or should I say the «alleged» elephant, since Cardinal Dulles refers to «the alleged increase of homosexual tendencies among younger members in the Society of Jesus as well as in other religious orders and diocesan seminaries.»

Their action suggests that, despite their recognition of elephants as pests, they also recognized that elephants had intrinsic value and had a right to live.

When the state of Rwanda decided that land on which elephants lived was too valuable for elephants and was needed for the cultivation of food for humans, they did not kill the elephants as pests.

Even our trackers, Mamu and Methui, who had lived all their lives with elephants, were visibly nervous as we moved closer and closer to the group in which our big tusker was.

The governor's office says entertainment elephants live half as long as wild elephants due to abusive treatments.

The aim of current de-extinction efforts is to use gene - editing tools to engineer living species to re-create extinct cousins, such as engineering a woolly mammoth from an elephant.

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

Empty hives and recorded buzzing also deterred elephants but were not as effective as live bees, report zoologist Fritz Vollrath of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and a colleague online 1 November in the journal Naturwissenschaften.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

Forest elephants are integral to a functioning forest in Africa, opening up the forest floor and acting as a vital part of the life cycle of many plant species through their role as seed dispersers.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Most of the elephants, aside from mother - juvenile pairs, were unrelated and did not live in family groups as wild elephants do.

The researchers» statistical analysis of the elephants» relationships shows that female Asian elephants live in a highly dynamic and fluid society, with individuals leaving and rejoining, much as chimpanzees and bottlenose dolphins are known to do.

The scientists and their DWC colleagues also put GPS collars on 12 elephants that lived partly or completely outside the parks, 10 of whom were also identified as problem elephants, but were not translocated.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

Biologist R. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks largely agrees with the findings, but he says more work is needed to explain why some mammoths seem to have survived in regions colonized by humans and why many modern elephants live in areas easily accessible to humans, such as the African savannah.

«That showed how they helped and why they lived so long after menopause, but it didn't explain why they stop reproducing,» he says, noting that in other species, such as elephants, older females also share wisdom and knowledge with their daughters, but continue to have calves.

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Elephants are good luck in life and a good fashion decision, as this slender clutch proves.

My fiancee & I are doing custom Stubbs — we live in / are getting married in DC and have opposing political parties, so we thought it would be fun to do the elephant & donkey slippers as a nod to our new home city!

My name is Mary, I am 29 years old, well my friends are telling me that I live in my own world there pink elephants can fly as I am still valuing morality and believe in real unconditional love.

Almereyda lets loose too, with neat touches like utilizing rear - projection backdrops and employing a real - life elephant to stalk behind Sarsgaard down a hall as a fun metaphor.

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The ultra-violence is on show here with many gruesome moments such as beating an elephant warrior to near the end of its life as you pin him down and stab away whilst avoiding his dying attempts to push you off, culminating in Kratos carving is head open and brains falling out.

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Vimes's «elephant» adventure is as profound as it is hilarious, sending up every aspect of modern life from royalty (a British specialty) to bureaucrats (inescapable anywhere), from cops (especially those unusually dressed) to criminals (who, like fools, have their own guild), from fantasy literature to satire itself.

Interestingly, while NaNo is more of a writing exercise and a motivational tool, there have been a number of books that at least began life as NaNo novels, but through massive editing and polishing did go on to become bestsellers; Sara Gruen's Like Water for Elephants is perhaps the most well - known, having been also adapted for film.

For example, Laura E. Richards» «Eletelephony» appears next to a neat, bright, and sunny living room, but, echoing the jumbled syllables in the poem, a gatefold page opens to reveal a massive, blueish - purple elephant chaotically turning over furniture as it answers the phone.

Still, as GigaOM points out, Oyster has a fair share of bestsellers, including Water for Elephants, Life of Pi, and Lord of the Rings.

An in - house video advertisement for an all - you - can - read service was circulated on a Kindle forum this week promising reader access to popular titles such as the Man Booker prize winner The Life of Pi, Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants and the Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, «all in the palm of your hand».

However, as with anything in life, talking about the «elephant in the room» is usually the best thing you can do to improve your Forex trading.

Before veterinary school, she lived in South Africa for 5 years working with wildlife as a professional field guide specializing in animal behavior, and the Big Five game species (elephants, lions, leopards, buffalo, and rhino).

Watch the elephant enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and than meet our head mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephant get saddled up for the explorer or adventure treks.

Our elephant come from Wai Kanbas (elephant training center in Sumatra) and as part of our efforts to conserve this magnificent species, we would like you to learn more about them, go trekking and experience life for 30 minutes (The Adventure Short Trek) with our incredible elephants!

Major storm events, such as those we often see during El Niño years, can be significant causes of mortality for elephant seals in their first year of life, says National Park Service ecologist Sarah Allen.

During the day, the decks overlook a reed bed, a fascinating microecology affording close study of bird and fish life, as well as elephant, hippo and buffalo.

A bull southern elephant seal is about 40 % heavier than a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), more than twice as heavy as a male walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), [3][4] and six to seven times heavier than the largest living terrestrial carnivorans, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and the Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).

Watch the elephants enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and then meet our Head Mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephants get saddled - up for the «Explorer» or «Adventurer» treks.

The elephants in the park are encouraged to live as natural life as possible, only eat, sleep and play.

I am a freelance travel writer who shares stories about my life as a solo female traveler, expat and responsible elephant tourism expert on d travels» round.

Whether that's surfing in Australia in between client calls, spending your days volunteering with elephants in Thailand as a travel blogger, or launching a graphic design business from Cape Horn, my clients and I are living proof that your dreams are possible.

In the Santa Barbara Channel, you can find over 30 marine mammal species including whales, dolphins, and elephant seals, as well as marine life ranging from tiny sea stars and anemones to blue whales (the largest animals in the world).

As someone who can not imagine life without travel and lives in what can only be described as a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the rooAs someone who can not imagine life without travel and lives in what can only be described as a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the rooas a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the room.

At Yala National Park on an early morning safari, you are sure to see a wide variety of wild life such as elephants, wild buffalo, mongoose, sloth bear, spotted deer and even maybe a leopard.

You can expect to dive a lot of walls and see a lot of healthy coral growth and marine life such as eagle rays, horse - eye jacks, nurse sharks, gray reef sharks, orange elephant ear sponges, and an array of macro life.

But, as anyone who has ever played Gran Turismo will know, the elephant in the living room has always been the absence of damage to vehicles.

Suffocated by his image as the «elephant dung YBA», painter Chris Ofili left 12 years ago to live and work in Trinidad... Here he describes the island's strange hold on him, now revealed in the extraordinary tapestry The Caged Bird's Song