Sentences with phrase «of animal movement»

Movebank is an archive of animal movement data collected by scientists in the course of their studies.

The mystery Liu was trying to unravel — regarding the origins of animal movement — is central to solving the larger mystery of how that alien planet transformed into the natural world we all know.

Of all the manifold questions surrounding these elusive, soft - bodied organisms, the biggest might concern the origins of animal movement.

And that makes Mistaken Point a key site for paleontologist Alex Liu, who's trying to understand the origins of animal movement.

«I think we're entering a new, data - rich realm of animal movement.

The beauty of animal movements is that they can be incorporated into almost any workout, whether you are a strongman, a yogi, a traceur, an MMA fighter, and so on.

Plate from Animal Locomotion: an Electro - Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements, Philadelphia 1887.

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The movement of these other animals creates underwater waves, which the sharks sense.

His company now facilitates the movement of pets and animals worldwide, from cats to poison dart frogs.

Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

Through my experiences and discussions with countless other animal advocates representing a broad swath of our movement, I've come to realize organizations with the best cultures espouse these two philosophies:

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

We are happy to support the effective implementation of those interventions, but we also believe that engaging in a wider range of promising tactics may increase the animal advocacy movement's chance of success.

Whereas many animal charities draw funds primarily from within the movement (e.g., from other animal advocates and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system, and human health.

Given their focus on plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products, much of GFI's work does not have a direct bearing on much of the animal advocacy movement, although they are contributing to a neglected and potentially high - impact area.

Since some of these funds would probably not have otherwise been used to help animals, GFI's fundraising activities might be more effective than other animal charities» fundraising activities at building the capacity of the movement.

Working to build the capacity of the animal advocacy movement can have a far - reaching impact.

GFI builds the capacity of the animal advocacy movement by recruiting scientists and entrepreneurs to work in cellular agriculture and plant - based technology and by doing scientific research.

GFI pursues many different avenues for creating change for animals: They work to build the capacity of the movement, to influence industry, to build alliances, and to influence policy and law.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

He worries that the animal rights movement is falling backwards because of the «humane meat» campaigns that, in his mind, have made carne respectable to consume for some who were once abstainers.

Further exploration of the attitudes of animals is necessary here, and the lines of demarcation blur, but the «play» of animals seems best understood as instinctive, almost automatic movement rather than play.

Speciesism is universally condemned within the animal rights movement (as distinguished from animal welfare advocacy), which holds, in the words of PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, «There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

A professor of ethics at Princeton University, Singer is the author of Animal Liberation (1975), which instigated the modern animal rights movAnimal Liberation (1975), which instigated the modern animal rights movanimal rights movement.

in choosing the phrase «animal liberation» as paradigmatic of the animal rights movement, I am following Callicott, AL..

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

Using Whitehead's philosophy, I argue that the truths of the land ethics tradition and the animal rights movement can be jointly affirmed.

Schweitzer's interest in eliminating the unnecessary suffering of individual animals is at the heart of the animal rights movement.

everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values and morality, and all we get back is hatred from abortion groups, gay right movements and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing humans to the same level as animals.

But however influential Schumacher's work may have been a decade ago, Rubin would have done better to offer a detailed analysis of the current strains influencing environmentalism, including «environmental justice» or the animal rights movement.

The animal rights movement focuses on the suffering of individual animals, especially domesticated ones.

Instead, I find increasingly within the animal rights movement and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated from the rest of nature the human species has become.

David R. Carlin sees the animal rights movement as anti «Christian and an attempt to promote a purely biological concept of human nature, thus linking it to Hitler and the Holocaust.

This is quite an assessment of a movement that in its Christian expression traces a concern for the rights of animals back to St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom and, in its later formulations, to John Wesley, Cardinal Newman, and John Paul II.

Rather than attempting to have animals classified as «persons,» which Professor Carlin says would «narrow the gap between humans and the lower animals,» the Christian animal rights movement wants them to be recognized as the sentient beings they are, demonstrably capable of physical and emotional suffering.

Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 366 pages, $ 59.95 cloth, $ 22.95 Anyone whose image of the animal rights movement is one of nasty - tempered radicals who bomb laboratories and spray paint on fur coats will be in forAnimal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 366 pages, $ 59.95 cloth, $ 22.95 Anyone whose image of the animal rights movement is one of nasty - tempered radicals who bomb laboratories and spray paint on fur coats will be in foranimal rights movement is one of nasty - tempered radicals who bomb laboratories and spray paint on fur coats will be in for a....

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

The power of the movement for animal rights» a movement that until recently was located for most people on the edge of the ridiculous» can no longer be denied.

Marie Hendrickz, official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that in view of the growing popularity of animal rights movements, the church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's dictum, «Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,» can be applied to the animal world.

A person is more alive than an animal, and the movement and adaptability of most animals is greater than that of fish and insects.

Today we're sharing with you just a few reasons why we're joining the international movement and giving up animal products for the first month of the year.

«Of these, 23 were for movement of livestock outside the supply chain nominated on the ESCAS paperwork to facilities that have been audited and are OIE compliant, with no compromise of animal welfare,» the report saiOf these, 23 were for movement of livestock outside the supply chain nominated on the ESCAS paperwork to facilities that have been audited and are OIE compliant, with no compromise of animal welfare,» the report saiof livestock outside the supply chain nominated on the ESCAS paperwork to facilities that have been audited and are OIE compliant, with no compromise of animal welfare,» the report saiof animal welfare,» the report said.

So I encourage you to join the Green Monday SA movement and simply reduce the amount of animal products you consume.

As the jaguar advanced under cover of darkness, the infrared sensors detected the animal's body temperature and movements, setting off a camera.

As the vegan movement continues to gain prominence in the UK, especially in urban areas, and large numbers of consumers make the switch to animal - free diets, we'll increasingly see suitable for vegans stickers on all sorts of unexpected products on supermarket shelves.

This January I've also noticed a lot more people taking part in Veganuary, a movement to encourage people to eat without any animal products for the month of January.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

Certified organic animal welfare standards address a wide range of topics, including feed rations, appropriate housing, pasture conditions, sanitation practices for animals, conditions which allow for freedom of movement and reduction of stress, prevention of disease, and administration of approved medications under organic standards.

If a quill becomes lodged in the tissues of an animal, the barbs act to pull the quill further into the tissues with the normal muscle movements of that animal, moving up to several millimeters in a day.