Sentences with phrase «of animal encounters»

You also have to go out into nature and experience things such as watching the bees pollinate the flowers, listen to the wind rustling through the leaves on the trees, hear what the plants are saying through the seasons, experience the weather, pay attention to the scat and animal tracks in nature, and try to understand the story of each animal you encounter.

It's especially exciting at Animal Hospital of Soquel because of the unique variety of animals we encounter.

Read the following tale — the very same story of so many of the animals we encounter daily... the reason we exist.

Her role at FloridaWild is to make the animals her # 1 priority, whether it may be just cleaning up after them or offering a helping hand to the lovely staff of doctors and technicians whose sole mission is to care for all of the animals encountered.

We are currently seeking qualified foster homes for all of the animals we encounter.

Not exact matches

From the dog that couldn't grasp the concept of an escalator to the eagle that destroyed a drone, here are some of the most epic encounters between animals and modern gadgets.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.

At the same time, I encounter a lot of young people who are interested in where their food comes from and what's happening to the animals and the workers who produce the food.

Thus humans are to practice proper management of animal populations in their encounters with wildlife.

Wesley Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement (Encounter, 2010).

He develops his argument against atypically atheistic Darwinism around the fact of evolutionary convergence: «The central point is that because organisms arrive repeatedly at the same biological solution... this provides not only a degree of predictability, but more intriguingly points to a deeper structure to life...» His viewpoint is quite clear: «Metric - sized animals that are the end - result of many billions of years of prior stellar and biological evolution may be the only way to allow at least one species to begin its encounter with God.

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.

We not only teach them about many of the plants and animals that we encounter, but we also allow them to interact and play outside in a more spontaneous way.

In this fatal theater, José Tomás assumed the role of nature — by extension death — against an immaculately strong and healthy animal who had — by Spanish law — never before encountered conflict of any kind.

Welles Park also hosts a plethora of toddler concerts / animal encounters, Shakespeare in the Park performances and other concerts and movies all summer long.

December 26 - 31: Encounter Red Pandas, Birds of the World, Camels, and Mystery Animals, plus craft and take in a few zoorific tales when the Franklin Park Zoo celebrates December School Vacation Week (Boston)

Experience excitement and wonder all week long, with Wild Animal Encounters in Carrboro, the UniverSoul Circus in Raleigh, the intrigue of Ananse the Spider in Chapel Hill, and Looney Tunes critters and aliens with Michael Jordan in «Space Jam.»

Through a variety of fun, age appropriate, educational hands - on activities, stories, live animal encounters, and adventures on Zoo grounds, Toddler Totes takes you and your child on an investigative exploration of the Zoo's animal collection examining animal body parts and adaptations, such as noses on koalas or tails on tigers.

If she shrinks at the sight of strangers, she may feel less frightened if she rehearses such encounters using dolls or stuffed animals.

Shedd's Extraordinary Experiences connect guests with the living world through personal encounters with some of the aquarium's most charismatic animals.

If you encounter resistance from you child, it may help to try offering him another source of comfort like a favorite stuffed animal or blanket.

In one of the most frightening animal encounters in recent Staten Island memory, a badly - injured deer barged into a clothing shop on busy New Dorp Lane, terrifying customers and trampling merchandise once it got trapped inside.

He also told a rambling tale about his parents rescuing frail animals but then encountering difficulties when the time came to dispose of them.

Otherwise an animal encountering a complex task would run out of neurons to make sense of it.

«These trips have a real feeling of exploring the frontier in a way that research expeditions on land perhaps no longer provide, in part because the terrain and the animals that are encountered are so often unfamiliar and surprising,» says Webster.

«Understanding animals» movement patterns and the encounters they bring about is a key step in characterizing a population's mating system and essential for determining how behavior both facilitates and is subject to sexual selection,» explained Kamath, a postdoctoral scholar in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

And in Australia — where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago — some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal - like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal «Dreamtime» mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, known today from Australia's fossil record.

The key here is to set up a controlled situation where animals encounter an ambiguous stimulus — think of it as a nonverbal version of the Emily statement.

This research shows that individual animals» behaviors can increase their chances of survival by allowing flexible, real - time adjustments to the many different microhabitats encountered in the wild.

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

Steve: So, what is your emotional state when you are encountering one of these animals up close for the first time?

So we fill them up on dry «kibble,» which combines animal products with vegetable - based starches, and meat - based canned «wet» foods, many containing parts of animals cats would likely never encounter, much less hunt and kill, in a purely natural situation.

It is clear that marine animals frequently encounter plastic debris, and that ingestion is a widespread phenomenon among all groups of marine organisms.

Many of the bees simply stopped at the first feeder they encountered after the third landmark, even though this meant that they were nowhere near the feeder on which they had been trained (Animal Behaviour, vol 49, p 159).

Animal data now suggest that some share of that hearing loss can be avoided if people consume a specific combination of dietary supplements prior to encountering a dangerous din.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

When Schweitzer first began working with the fossils, the specimens looked like others she had encountered, in which all the organic material has ordinarily decayed and been replaced by rock within a million years of the animal's death.

LIFE focuses on up - close encounters with the astonishing, quirky, and endearing behaviors of animals and plants dwelling on every continent and in every habitat.

I hoped that encountering them up close would resolve a question I've long harbored: Why do we, as animals, uproot ourselves rather than maintaining the stately fixity of trees?

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

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.

The approach allowed scientists to map out an «electrical grid» showing the moment - by - moment changes across thousands of neurons as animals encountered cues, retrieved short - term memories and made a decision.

But if Perron depleted the mice of immune cells known as T cells, the animals survived their encounter with HERV - W.

However, from our study, it is now clear that signature whistles are a vehicle to negotiate approaches between groups of animals, as the exchanges occurred only during group encounters.

More information is also needed on the state of the oceans the animals live in and travel through, as well as the types of chemicals, temperature, and sounds they encounter.

Evolution shapes each animal's microbiota, favoring populations of microorganisms that help the animal survive their environment and diseases they encounter.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

Zoonoses had once been seen primarily as the result of untamed nature, the byproduct of humans moving into wild places and encountering animals with disease.

So we've begun to delineate not only the sensory pathway but also the central components of the neural circuit that is activated when the male encounters an animal from another species.»