Sentences with phrase «of aggressive animals»

This course will discuss options for the approach to and sedation of aggressive animals in an ER setting to alleviate pain and distress, and to provide safe handling for veterinarians and technicians.

Reports of aggressive animals — once the domain of animal control officers — are now falling to deputies, who often don't have much training in dealing with them.

But something has happened to the pit bull in the last decade that says as much about the nature of American society as it does about the nature of this aggressive animal.

> > > Are the Roberts victims of aggressive animal rights activists both locally > and nationally that are predatory in nature who hold the belief that animals > should not be bred, sold, hunted or eaten?

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There are doubts whether pepper spray will really work against a two - ton bull seal, but it's a possible alternative to shooting aggressive animals that are being driven into dangerous encounters by a lack of other food sources.

Aside from the concerns over L'Oreal's record on animal testing and other ethical issues, the cosmetic giant is part - owned by Nestlé, the target of a boycott over its aggressive marketing of baby milks.

The drivers passed out English and Spanish - language fliers on Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street in Jackson Heights — pushing back against the aggressive organizing efforts of animal rights groups like NYCLASS.

A new study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found no evidence of increased aggressive behavior toward strangers in an animal model of the condition.

To find out, Max Wolf of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, created simple simulated animals with personalities that were either consistently aggressive or meek, or flipped between the two.

For example, aggressive animals had increased activity of some genes for sensing dopamine.

Hueffer said that although vaccinations for rabies were first developed in the mid-19th century, scientists have struggled to explain how the virus can induce aggressive behavior in animals like dogs, which contribute up to 99 percent of all rabies transmissions to humans, according to World Health Organization estimates.

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

North American killer bees are hybrids, the offspring of relatively placid European bees — the kind favored by honey producers — and an aggressive African species that earned its nickname by reputedly stinging to death small animals.

Since the late 1990s, Huntingdon Life Sciences — a company that conducts testing of substances on animals mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration — has become a proving ground for increasingly aggressive tactics by animal - rights militants.

The aggressive fungus, which presumably came to Europe through the amphibian trade, affects the skin of the animals, leading to the formation of skin necrosis and ultimately death.

BIG BITES An aggressive biter, the Asian tiger mosquito can carry a variety of pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and some domestic animals.

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

By analyzing the affected animals, the scientists isolated an aggressive new flavivirus, a class of viruses that includes yellow and dengue fevers — the first flavivirus ever identified in ducks.

«The aggressive animals were so aggressive I got the feeling that 10 or 20 of them would probably kill me if they got out of the cages.»

When researchers replaced a quarter of the water, wrestling and other aggressive behavior immediately increased as the fish sought to reestablish a hierarchy, they report in the current issue of Applied Animal Behavior Science.

He notes that aggressive ring - culling would always reduce the number of new cases — because some of those farms undoubtedly housed animals that were infected though asymptomatic — but the outbreak could bounce back.

In the course of evolution, some animals have overcome the fear and stress they feel when encountering humans or unfamiliar members of their own species and become less aggressive.

But youngsters 6 to 10 years of age have no trouble understanding the threat in a dog's aggressive bark, researchers report in the current issue of Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

Rhesus macaques could potentially impact the native plant and animal species in the park in several ways; for example, eating plants needed by other animals, changing the plant composition in the park, or pushing other animals out of the habitat by being aggressive, Anderson said.

Zoo veterinarians have been attempting, with varying degrees of success, to castrate the 2 - ton animals for more than 90 years, in hopes of controlling the size of captive populations and reducing the number of fights between the males of this aggressive species.

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

The scientists suspect that this versatility allows the 315 - kilogram animal to create deeper, more aggressive noises in combat situations along with higher - pitched noises that can carry far over the open landscapes of the West to attract mates.

In the most extreme case aggressive conservation could involve bringing in new animals to fill the role of animals that have gone extinct.

Bold, aggressive animals use a lot of energy fast in relatively short lives, the thinking goes, whereas calmer animals last longer, saving themselves to reproduce later in life.

When Pandolfi and colleagues increased the levels of saturated fats — the kind found in fast food cheeseburgers and fries — in the animals» diet, the mice developed aggressive, metastatic tumors.

Because the animals that were exposed to escapable defeat were paired with the aggressive conspecific for less time, however, it is unclear whether the difference in CD is due to the ability to control the end of the pairing or simply to the shorter overall duration of defeat experienced.

But this discovery revealed that simply changing the diet of the animals to mimic the levels of saturated fats found in a human «fast food» style diet resulted in aggressive metastatic progression in the tumors.

Levels of the stress hormone cortisol are much lower in the blood of tame foxes than in the aggressive animals.

Hippos are one of the most aggressive animals out there so I'd be scared I'd be doomed to death with one of them in my house.

The three animals rapidly grow exponentially bigger, tougher and more aggressive, instinctually uniting to knock gigantic chunks out of Chicago.

Infected with a serum to make him uncontrollably aggressive, the movie finds surprising humanity in an animal driven to hurting others in a situation out of his control.

John Cena lends his voice to the bull that is Ferdinand along with a cast of other animals voiced by many stars in which Ferdinand grows up on a bullfighting farm and is heckled for protecting flowers instead of being an aggressive bull.

It is one of the most aggressive animals in the world, and is often regarded as the most dangerous animal in Africa and can prove quite agile and powerful when provoked.

The Hyundai Veloster is a vastly under - rated car, the kind of unique animal that bucks mainline design conventions and offers a truly aggressive drive at an affordable price.

This paper described three behaviors - bedwetting past age 5, cruelty to animals, and the setting of fires - as «red flag» indicators of sociopathy and future episodic, aggressive behaviors.

It is a nocturnal, carnivorous marsupial about the size of a pit bull with an aggressive disposition and a territorial ferocity when protecting food, fighting for a mate or when confronted by another animal.

Aggressive spay / neuter programs could cut the number of animals euthanized by half in less than five years.

These include reporting owners who fail to clean up after their animals who may defecate in public places, cause some sort of environmental damage, or are aggressive and exhibit behaviours like chasing, biting or excessive barking, both within or outside their dwelling.

Unsupervised, your cat faces the very real dangers of road traffic, disease, and other animals who may be aggressive.

Reserves the right to refuse to accommodate an animal in the cabin if credible proof of service and training is not available, or if the animal is considered aggressive or disruptive.

Large aggressive dogs or predatory animals can easily get in to the yard to hurt, fight even injure dogs confined with this type of fence.

Rabies spreads through the saliva of the infected animal, and rabid animals are much more likely to attack because the disease makes them aggressive.

Many pets become less aggressive towards other animals, are less likely to wander and will stop that endearing practice of spraying furniture to mark their territory.

In a study of 6,000 dog owners published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science, researchers found that the dachshund is the most aggressive dog: 1 out of 5 bit or tried to bite a stranger and 1 in 12 bit or tried to bite their owner.

PETA, the so - called People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, supports the ban: They claim they have rescued many pit bulls from abusive homes where they were badly hurt, kicked, and beaten to the point of aggression for dog fights, or they chain them up on a short chain to make aggressive guard dogs, or drug dealers use them as weapons.