Sentences with phrase «nonhuman animals»

Based on our synthesis of published anatomical and functional data in humans and nonhuman animals (see Materials and Methods), we hypothesized that the amygdala would parse into three subregions that each anchor a large - scale network of brain regions implicated in distinct processes of social cognition.

Project lawyer Steven Wise told Reuters that Fahey's opinion «could be a historical turning point in the struggle to obtain legal rights for nonhuman animals in the United States.»

Certainly, these kind of capabilities, like many others that we continue to find in nonhuman animals, require rethinking our positions on animal intelligence.

But exploring issues related to water, and taking positive action to solve water challenges for people, nonhuman animals, and the earth, must be a year - round endeavor.»

In conjunction with the group show Between Species, UVP presents an evening of curated videos and panel talk exploring the idea of «the animal» and attempts to imagine and engage with nonhuman animals through visual technologies.

Studies have shown that PEMF units have helped heal non healing fractures and poorly healing wounds in humans and nonhuman animals.

The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights actively works toward the acquisition of rights for all nonhuman animals by educating the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animal use.

«Nonhuman animals can teach us humans SO MUCH!

He saw that emotions were experienced by the animals; the difference between humans and nonhuman animals emotions not in kind but in degree.

Do nonhuman animals have ethics?

She has developed a gift for getting into the minds of nonhuman animals, for understanding their sensibilities, sensitivities and fears, and shares insights in this 2009 book.

Part of the problem is that the alternative / homeopathic / holistic / herbal supplement industries for people and nonhuman animals are unregulated to any significant degree.

Cats and dogs can develop subclinical infections with these organisms but still pose a risk to livestock, other nonhuman animals, and humans, especially children, older persons, and immunocompromised individuals.»

It's a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature — legal, social or biological — of nonhuman animals is an important factor.

A combination of moral intention, along with innovation and technology, is allowing us to move beyond this ugly chapter in our dealings with animals and usher in a better, safer era for nonhuman animals and for humans as well.

It is about fostering kindness, respect and empathy for both human and nonhuman animals, and looking after the environment and its diverse habitats.

«Together we celebrate the human - animal bond in respect and admiration of the many roles of nonhuman animals in our lives, of our profound familiar relationships with them, and of our shared genuine love for many of them,» he said.

As Dr. Michael Fox asked, «Can we justify using parts of many other severely deprived and prematurely killed nonhuman animals to maintain each individual cat's well - being?»

Beyond the initial impact of trauma from natural or manmade disasters, nonhuman animals may suffer psychosocial aspects of trauma.

Do nonhuman animals understand what death is?

Comparing Three Melbourne Welfare Shelters for Nonhuman Animals, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Volume 8, Issue 1

To support that mission, ALDF strives to create an office atmosphere that encourages and supports the best practices and products available to reduce the suffering of and harm to nonhuman animals.

A significantly higher percentage of those in the intensive - outreach group reported knowing at least 1 way to get help for their companion animals and that the caregiver - defined general well being of nonhuman animals in their neighborhood was better during the previous year.

The Humane Society of Pinellas» Deanna Marie Palestra Humane Education and Outreach program teaches kindness, respect, and empathy for both human and nonhuman animals, and respect for the environment that we all share.

Vitiligo: a lack of pigment in the skin (called vitiligo in man and hypopigmentation in nonhuman animals).

Factor VIII deficiency or hemophilia A: the most common severe inherited clotting disorder of humans and nonhuman animals.

We begin with attorney Elizabeth Baker, Senior Science Policy Specialist at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, PCRM, who joins Peter to discuss the problems and limitations of using nonhuman animals in testing for drugs being developed for use in humans.

Nonhuman animals have what researchers refer to as an «approximate» number system.

But emerging data are showing that some nonhuman animals — a lot of them, actually — manage almost - math without a need for true numbers.

Taken together, these results suggest that active vocal control may be possible in nonhuman animals, in particular for nonhuman primates.

The idea that nonhuman animals can consciously remember things they've done or witnessed in the past, called episodic memory, is controversial — largely because it's thought that these animals aren't self - aware.

We — human and nonhuman animals alike — do seem to have a shared ability, grounded in our biology and helped along by evolutionary pressures, to tell apart «some» and «many» or even small amounts of something.

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

Biologists disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animals, and especially whether they consciously experience their emotions.

Even though her own work doesn't include nonhuman animals, she has to be able to read that literature and understand it.

The group can marshal tens of thousands of its members to protest what they think is detrimental to the philosophical position of moral equivalence for humans and nonhuman animals.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

Therefore we should expect to see similar cognitive abilities in both human and nonhuman animals.

Or are we projecting human abilities onto nonhuman animals?

Cognitive animal behaviorist Bekoff and philosopher Pierce argue that nonhuman animals are also moral beings — with not just building blocks or precursors of morality but the real deal.

Hauser is well - known for his research on the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals and has been an admired teacher and mentor, as well as the author of several popular books on animal behavior.

«This decision is the first step to recognizing that the gulf between human and nonhuman animals is not absolute but a matter of degree,» Singer says.

«I do hope it helps people look differently at their relationship with nonhuman animals.»

The chimps» actions, she would later report, set them apart from other nonhuman animals — and they may reveal the evolutionary origins of how we came to master fire.

Studying these functions in nonhuman animals has given us the most detail about how neurons get put together to do complex functions because we can really look, neuron by neuron, at how vision gets put together, how motor control gets put together.

«But our study demonstrates that nonhuman animals can accumulate knowledge and improve performance over generations, satisfying the criteria for cumulative cultural evolution,» Sasaki says.

Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes.

Mating with a close relative, known as inbreeding, reduces nonhuman animals» evolutionary fitness — measured by the ability to produce offspring.

The contributors explore moral, legal, social, and epistemological aspects of our relations with nonhuman animals.

Many nonhuman animals thought to lack theory of mind show clear signs of basic empathy — and sympathy too.