Sentences with phrase «of animal interaction»

We offer fun - filled birthday parties with tons of animal interaction, an interactive behind - the scenes tour and more!

Robinowitz's humorous, yet traditionally inspired line of accessories provides a constant trigger for positive memories of animal interactions.

Not exact matches

Even in fairy tales, the presence of talking stones and larger - than - life animals call attention to the powers and interactions of the concrete world.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

Such types of animal minds, evolved in relation to a reciprocal interaction between the selection of environment by animal and of animal by environment, are what we refer to rather crudely as instincts.

Spatio - temporal - causal properties — the shapes, motions, bodily behavior and interactions of animals, plants, and other things — are not ignored.

C. H. Waddington sees an interaction between the purposive behavior of animals and their environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations of neo-Darwinism.

Evolutionary theory needs to take account of the interaction between short - term purposive behavior on the part of animals and the survival value of particular characteristics.

The many different species of plants and animals each have their own particular natures because of a long history of interactions and cause - and - effect sequences which have made each species what it is.

It's a city with a living, evolving «ecological web of interactions» between man and animal, according to Gavin Van Horn.

In this spring session, we'll discover similarities and differences between types of animals with fun hands - on activities including stories, crafts, and live animal interactions.

So far, all human studies of oxytocin's role in social interaction show that we respond similarly to animals.

This and less melodramatic examples of interspecies interaction are intended to illuminate the fact of our common community with animals and our duty to respect their rights and needs in exactly the way we would those of semi-dependent human community members.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

«Cerebellar interactions with the frontal cortex in cognitive processes has never been shown before in animal models,» says Parker, UI assistant professor of psychiatry and the first faculty hire of the new Iowa Neuroscience Institute.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Identifying the factors that determine these patterns — the distances separating populations, physical barriers preventing the movement of animals, hunting behavior, and interactions with prey species — is the fun part.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

About 250 million years ago, when therapsid reptiles gave rise to birds and mammals, a neuronal structure probably evolved in some animals that allowed for interaction between those parts of the nervous system involved in carrying out perceptual categorization and those carrying out memory.

The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal manure and the appearance of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

His findings, reported in Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals: half of the 18 people who ran when they were attacked escaped injury.

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

A fourth study highlights possible interactions of CBD with existing anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) in animal models of seizures.

That's according to research published in the journal Anthrozoos, in which one studies about the interactions of humans and other animals.

The find suggests a new type of interaction between humans and animals in this era, says Chaix.

Use [animals in captivity] as education, interaction, breeding researchall of that.

As changes in regulations cause landfills to be cleaned up, covered and closed, scientists expect the behavior of scavenging animals to change — with potential consequences for other species, ecosystems and human - animal interactions.

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.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

«Interestingly, at the end, mainly traits related to interactions between plants and plants or plants and animals were important,» reports Anne Kempel, first author of the study.

Her research is part of a new field of study, called aeroecology, that looks at the interactions between flying animals and their airspace.

Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»

Molecular analysis showed that heart cells in affected animals were poorly developed and had mitochondrial defects, indicating that Sap130 - Pcdha9 gene interactions play a crucial role not only in heart development but also in regulating metabolic function of the cardiac muscle.

A 2009 analysis of same - sex animal romance notes, among other things, that half of all sexual interactions by male bottlenose dolphins occur with male partners, and male - male pairings account for up to 26 percent of bearded vulture mountings.

However, animals that had mutations with Pcdha9, but not Sap130, can display defects in the aorta, but with normal - sized left ventricles, suggesting interaction between the two genes is needed to cause all the features of HLHS,» said Xiaoqin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., the first author of the new study and a research instructor in Lo's lab.

Determining how all of those types of animals coexist is critical for understanding functional diversity, niche partitioning and interspecific interactions.»

Preclinical animal models are available that will facilitate the study of these important interactions to advance our knowledge, so that the obesity - and diabetes - driven burden of PDAC can be curbed,» commented Dr. Eibl.

The insects and other animals that frequent milkweed form a model community for the study of interactions among species.

The study included data about human - animal interactions, physical activity, frequency of doctor visits and health outcomes of the participants.

It is hoped that comparing the skin of humans and animals will provide a better understanding of the interaction of proteins.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

Researchers suggest that over the past decade, massive loss of native forests to logging and palm oil production has significantly increased interaction between villagers and macaque monkeys, enabling the parasite to jump from animal to human hosts.

Porfiri is a leading researcher in the field of ethorobotics — the study of robot - animal interaction.

But computer analyses of collective animal behavior are limited by the need for constant tracking and measurement data for each individual; hence, the mechanics of social animal interaction are not fully understood.

The researchers recorded thousands of interactions between the animals and the blocks in 20 days of experiments per species.