Sentences with phrase «number of animals which»

We often have the opportunity to observe a great number of animals which are most active at night.

No - kill shelters are trying to end this killing by increasing the demand for shelter dogs and cats and reducing the supply by reducing the number of animals born and thus the number of animals which end up in shelters, and through increased spay / neuter, including low - cost / free help for low - income people.

The numerator represents the number of animals which were hypothyroid and the denominator the number showing aberrant behavior.

That's just one fifth of the number of animals which they euthanized back in 2003.

Not exact matches

PETA focuses its attention on four main areas in which the largest number of animals suffer the most intensely including factory farms: the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.

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.

The biblical story says that Noah planned for it, that the flood covered all land, that a number of each animal (2 or 7 depending upon which chapter you believe) were saved, as were a few members of Noah's family.

In this psalm in verse 20 (Hebrew numbering) the hart (deer or doe, male and female), which is in the inscription (1), is also invoked within the three circles of animals in verses 13 - 22 (bulls lions dogs — dogs lions wild bulls).

The Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals (ASWA) is raising concerns over a number luxury foods including Foie Gras which it claims employs «an incredibly method of farming the geese to obtain a fatty liver».

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.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbAnimal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbanimal husbandry.

What you can learn on this website is that animal foods come in packages which are disease promoting for a number of factors in addition to their protein: the fat, the lack of fiber, the dearth of antioxidants, the large number of contaminants, and hormones to name a few.

There have been lots of cell and animal research, which prove that turmeric has a good influence on a number of illnesses and also several human studies have shown positive results as well.

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.

Limiting the number of animals allowed in an area adds to practices which insure proper care and feeding of animals.

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.

It would make the animals more adoptable, therefore cutting back on a high number of animals that are euthanized in Onondaga County, and it would offer inmates an opportunity to work with these animals, which in other programs, has led to better behavior among the incarcerated and lowered recidivism.

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

Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet minister given the job of drawing up the manifesto, has agreed to commit to a free vote on 2004's Hunting Act, which outlawed the hunting of foxes and a number of other wild animals with hounds.

In an effort to reduce the number of feral cats throughout the city, the measure requires owners to spay or neuter cats they allow to roam free and seeks to strengthen trap - neuter - return, in which groups or individuals collect feral cats and neuter, vaccinate and identify them before returning the animals to the streets.

In animal studies, repeated dosages of psilocybin diminish the number of 2A serotonin receptors, which dampens their expression.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

The results showed a statistically significant number of genes associated with domestication which overlapped between domestic animals and modern humans, but not with their wild equals, like Neanderthals.

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

The strength of the paper, he says, is that the large number of animals involved provide a good sample of the different ways in which chimp brains age.

The finding, experts say, has implications for conservation management, which often solely focuses on the number of animals in a population, and may extend to chimpanzees, dolphins, whales, and other species.

«When we started clearing it we found a lot of debris inside, which included substantial numbers of animal bones and then right at the bottom we came across a number of vessels, which seemed to be sitting on the floor — cooking pots and bits of an oven as well,» Gibson said.

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.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

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.

Participants then went through five standard cognitive tests involving immediate recall of a list of presented words, delayed recall of those words later, forward and backward recall of long lists of numbers, and a verbal fluency test in which they listed as many animals as possible without repetition, the use of proper nouns or descriptors.

Remarkably, giving animals injections of lithium salts — which mimics WNT signaling by inhibiting the molecule GSK3 — or giving animals a more specific GSK inhibitor, the researchers were able to restore normal synapse and spine numbers and also improve some of the most significant psychiatric - like behavioral abnormalities in these mice.

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 result is often a greater number of infected animals, which in turn leads to mass die - offs.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

But little is known on how sound affects invertebrates, which account for the largest number of animals in the sea.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

All of which means, that story number 1 about hibernating animals waking up to raise their body temperatures is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

Nevertheless, we are constantly looking for ways in which we can minimize the number of animal tests.

He and his colleagues have discovered that the locomotion of most creatures that fly or swim can be characterized by a single mathematical proportion called the Strouhal number — the ratio between an animal's cruising speed and the rate at which it flaps its wings or swishes its tail.

«This particular sponge species, which is among the most ancient animals inhabiting the earth today, is home to a very diverse, very crowded number of microorganisms,» said Prof. Micha Ilan of the Department of Zoology at TAU's Faculty of Life Sciences, who led the study.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

The tags, which travel with the animal on its descent to the clouds of shrimplike krill, measure the animal's speed, depth, orientation and the number of times it beats its tail; they then pop off and float to the surface, ready to be retrieved by pursuing biologists.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

A new estimate, based on mathematical modeling and a major bug - counting effort in New Guinea, puts the number of arthropod species in the tropics — which account for most of the animal species in the world — at about 3.7 million, way below the 30 million once suggested.

The animal diet, for instance, curbed the numbers of microbes that break down carbohydrates from plants and boosted levels of organisms that can tolerate bile, which helps to digest fats.

Drastic measures This desperate situation has led conservationists in Sabah to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to maintain the rhino population here is to capture as many as possible of the remaining animals — which may number as few as 30 — and subject them to assisted reproductive technology.

To support his argument that we and other animals don't have an evolved capacity for number per se, Nunez cites several different strands of research in the current literature, including experimental work with humans from non-industrialized cultures, which suggests an imprecise approach to quantity.