Sentences with phrase «number of animals from»

If the puppies are allowed to reproduce in their turn, the number of animals from just one pregnancy expands exponentially.

If our goal is to prevent as great a number of animals from suffering as possible, and in our region we see a lot of animals whose lives fall far below the norm, we need to find ways to be as effective as possible with our precious resources.

The Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park is home to a number of animals from squirrel monkeys to the Green Tree Python.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

San Francisco - based Memphis Meats produces meat from self - reproducing cells, thereby producing meat that is an «animal - based» product but avoiding the need to breed, raise, and slaughter huge numbers of animals.

GFI has a number of expert advisors from a variety of fields, which reflects their strong connections to the fields such as food tech, animal advocacy, and entrepreneurship.

There are tariffs placed on an eye - popping number of products, from building materials and vegetables, to chemicals and even live animals.

A number of Church of England and Catholic schools are offering pupils a type of halal meat from animals which are not stunned before they are killed, according to the leader of the county council.

I have quoted Calvin's Institutes: «God [exalted] man above all the other animals to separate him from the common number, because he has attained to no vulgar life, but a life connected with the light of intelligence and reason --[this] at the same time shows how he was made in the image of God.»

Our brilliant minded scientists have been able to prove that no your sky daddy did not create our universe and no your sky daddy did not create man, and no your sky daddy did not have anything to do with animal life... we can back all of those with physical evidence... your god delusion has only existed for a mere 2700 years.We have far greater and more accurate numbers from science that tend to make more sense.

LCTs exist primarily in foods derived from animals and have been linked to heart disease and a number of other chronic conditions.

Animals from New South Wales were also sent to the French colony of New Caledonia, and in small numbers farther afield to Russia, Japan and India.

Over a number of days evidence was collected that showed Australian sheep being offered for sale from 26 roadside stalls and markets — in direct contravention of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) which dictates that animals must only go to approved abattoirs.

They regulate long, industrial supply chains in a world where a frozen pizza product can contain 35 different ingredients that have passed through 60 countries and carry the label «country of origin Ireland», and a packet of mince can contain meat from 17 animals from an unknown number of farms.

A number of lab and animal studies have found that healthy organic food may increase antioxidant content, helping to protect cells from damage.

These swings come with a number of different special features, from built - in speakers, to attached stuffed animals, to vibration features, and more.

With a variety of options for your ticker's background and marker (everything from a little peanut to a swaddled baby, images of hand - holding couples to a variety of cute animals), you can customize your ticker in a countless number of ways!

Appropriate for: 7 months to 1 year Skills developed: Verbal, auditory What you'll need: A flannel board, available from educational toy stores and catalogs; sheets of colored felt and scissors or purchased felt shapes You can use traditional store - bought felt shapes, which usually come in themed sets (farm animals, numbers, faces) or make your own by cutting them out with scissors.

New figures from the Home Office published in July 2011 showed there had been a 3 % increase in the number of scientific procedures carried out on living animals, much to the dismay of the animal charities.

Excluding the breeding of GM and HM animals, the total number of procedures increased in 2011 (an increase of +71,300 or +3 %, from 2.10 million to 2.18 million).

It will wipe out huge numbers of this much - loved species, virtually eliminating badgers from these areas, including many animals which are healthy.

To help boost production, Cuomo announced plans Wednesday to loosen restrictions on dairy farmers by increasing from 200 to 300 the number of cows that farmers can keep without needing pricey «Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation» permits.

Butterworth's concept of numerosity coding may be an important part of number sense, says Dehaene, but there is still much to learn about it — for instance, whether it is present in other animals or in children from a very early age.

From accelerating the identification and validation of novel therapeutic targets, to creating better animal models of human diseases in a shorter time frame, to reducing the number of failed products, Crispr looks set to shave millions off R&D costs and boost drug discovery, she says.

Critics have long argued that transplanting animal tissue into even a small number of immune - suppressed patients could allow obscure pathogens to jump from animals to humans.

The articles address these questions from a number of varied disciplinary viewpoints, including those of ecology, engineering, functional morphology, animal nutrition, and palaeontology.

Scientists have previously identified a number of mouse smell receptors, cell - surface proteins in the animals» noses that pick up everything from the fragrance of food to the scent of fear (ScienceNOW, 21 August 2008).

Industrial - scale farms that raise animals for food — called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), in the parlance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — have a number of documented impacts on the environment, mostly from the massive quantities of manure they produce.

Another important finding, Dunn and his colleagues report, was how these two body measures are related to the number of males in a howler monkey's immediate social group, which ranges from one to three animals depending on the species.

Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»

Self - assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable individuals.

Using clinical, genetic, and gene expression data as filters to distinguish genes whose copy number alteration causes cancer from those for whom copy number changes are incidental, the team whittled down their list from 14,000 to a more manageable number, each of which they systematically tested using genetic experiments in animals.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

The review's sole author, Dr. Patricia Lopes from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that animals from a number of different species will eat and drink less, reduce their activity and sleep more when they are sick in order to conserve energy for their recovery.

Animal breeders have sometimes seen such large sperm from livestock, but those turned out to have twice the number of chromosomes they were supposed to and were likely unable to fertilize eggs.

Thirty days later, however, when the protein had been cleared from their bodies, the animals» memory troubles were gone as well, and the number of newly formed brain cells was back to normal.

Since 1989, the number of animals in the Delta herd has plummeted from 10 700 to 4500, partly because of predation by wolves and bears, but also because a run of bad weather has meant cows in the herd have produced fewer calves.

In a paper currently in review at the journal Oryx Hamburg University zoologist Jrg Ganzhorn and his colleagues report that at least three of Madagascars unique ecosystems have sustained so much damage that many of the resident large animal species, including a number of lemurs, have disappeared from them.

As increasing global demand for meat boosts numbers and density of livestock, the market for animal vaccines is predicted to grow from $ 4 billion in 2009 to $ 5.6 billion in 2015, according to a report from analysts BCC Research.

«However, this notion may be a peculiar world view that comes from living in an age where the number and size of animals have been drastically reduced from their former bounty,» the team of nine scientists write.

Scientists routinely include large numbers of animals to smooth out the noise from individual differences.

The large number of lions in the park may have somehow compromised their immunity, or it may have simply made it easier for the disease to pass from animal to animal because they were in more frequent contact with each other.

The evidence comes from increasingly frequent scenes of dead and rotting fish on beaches; shellfish harvesting quarantines; dead whales, manatees and other marine animals; and a number of other highly visible outcomes.

The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2 - 3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

The activists cite a letter from Berns stating that «mice are available» with a low background incidence of tumours, and a high sensitivity to carcinogens, «thereby reducing both the time of testing and the number of animals required for a reliable measurement».

They have already seen changes in the numbers and types of deep - sea animals living at Station M that appear to result from the feasts of 2011 and 2012.

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that, at least in animals, these unusual fats fight a host of chronic health conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer (SN: 3/3/01, p. 136).

The number of experimental animals used in Germany has declined, he said, from 2.64 million in 1989, to 2.45 million in 1990.

Using a mathematical model that combines a huge number of cattle and badgers that have TB, the researchers were able to quantify the relationship between the two animals and use a big data approach to show that the route of infection for cattle is from other cattle rather than from other species.