Sentences with phrase «of other small animals»

Because they eat mostly meat, their feces have a stronger odor than that of other small animals.

In addition to posing a rabies risk, outdoor and feral cats that number at least 95 million animals in the United States, are responsible for killing an estimated 500 million birds annually in addition to scores of other small animals.

This is highly beneficial for pet owners, as less water intake results in less urine output — meaning that the animals» habitats don't need to be cleaned as often as habitats of other small animals.

Not exact matches

Just before the beginning of death - dealing cutbacks in already - small measures of care for people of color, women, children, others marginalized and animals, plants and minerals of many sorts in the U.S..

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

I agree with this comment, as well as with the others on industrial agriculture, though I do want to mention that there are small town, local and organic farmers out there who treat animals and the environment well — while I do not support the dairy or egg industry, I love to see our friend Bob's hens running around wild, pecking at bugs, etc. and we will eat those eggs, which are seasonal because hens naturally lay more during certain times of the year.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

Franz is extreme in his practices of fostering a diverse life of insects, small animals, and other organisms even in the world -LSB-...]

Yet this small industry continues to receive government support — despite causing untold suffering to literally millions of Australian cattle, sheep, goats and other animals over several decades.

She and her husband Walter are the proud parents of a son who came into their lives through adoption, and live on a ranchette in rural Texas with a small herd of rescued Great Danes and other farm animals.

This is the best way to corral small items like crayons and pens, Lego and other building toys, miniature plastic animals and dolls, craft supplies and all of the other messy, multi-pieced toys so beloved by this age group.

Other dolls that will stimulate new types of play are miniature dolls or figures like small people (such as the Fisher Price Little People sets) or farm animal sets.

That is why the small family company designed a line of high - contrast cards and other gifts with whimsical animal images.

Enjoys imitating animals sounds Enjoys stories about other smaller children and animals Can turn the pages of a book

put health and nutrition claims on labels (unless on a small list of permitted claims) or use other idealising text or images on infant formula (such as hearts, shields, animals)(RG 17 / GN 32).

«Even including a small amount of animal protein in the diet will increase the absorption and use of iron and other micronutrients — even improving the absorption of iron from non-animal sources, which will help to improve health while trying to conceive and during pregnancy,» says Lvova.

• Countywide Animal Control program • Cooperative purchasing of paper and other items through the Empire State Purchasing Group • Bulk purchase of LED Lighting • Shared printing through BOCES • Shared police dispatching • Formalizing agreements among Highway Departments • Joint bids for landscaping and custodial services • Dissolution of small village courts

This March it found signs of white - nose infected animals in two small caves — one hosting fewer than 10 bats and the other with around 60.

A class of small molecules found in grapes, red wine, olive oil, and other foods extends the life of yeast cells by approximately 70 % and activates genes known to extend life span in laboratory animals.

One would culture thin sheets of meat, seeded by cells from a living animal, on a reusable polymer scaffold; the other would grow meat on small edible beads that stretch with changes in temperature.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

The fossils, discovered by a team including researchers from the University of Leicester, show two species of marine worms with other, smaller worm - like animals attached to the outer surface of their body.

Other fossils had hinted that mammals might not just have been small terrestrial creatures until the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago but the beaver - tailed animal definitively pushes back the date of mammalian adaptation to an aquatic lifestyle by at least 100 million years.

The lifestyle of these giant animals impacted the entire vegetation — trees were kept small and other plants had sufficient room and nutrients for their growth.

The area is rich with animal skeletons, and they estimate there are at least 13 different species of dinosaur present based on teeth and other remains, plus birds, small mammals and some fish.

They used the butterfly — one of the world's smallest — to test how global warming and other pressures like livestock grazing might cause animal species to go extinct.

Ants are also, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson, the premier turners of soil in the world, the chief predators of other insects, and the principal scavengers of small dead animals — all activities that ultimately benefit humans.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

According to research (pdf) by Robert Kok, a Canadian involved in the project, bugs reproduce rapidly, so small farms could produce a steady stream of food for humans or other animals.

She and other veterinarians in the Small Animal Hospital at Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences are expecting to see snakebite cases any day.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

So a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester started small, forgoing migratory birds and other large animals for the humble fruit fly.

Corals are colonies of small, tentacled animals that encase themselves in bony structures made of the mineral calcium carbonate, the same material that makes up the shells of other sea creatures.

For animals living in such small groups, it is especially important to accurately identify other members of their species.

The zebrafish's transparency, small size, and rapid reproduction make it one of the best models for studying how animals and bacteria «talk» to each other, she adds.

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

As they eat their way through a sunken log, boring clams create lots of small holes in which other animals can hide.

You will hear the high - pitched chirping of the other insects, and you'll hear them and other small animals scurrying in fear.

According to him, it will also allow us to «identify any sample butterfly through its DNA, either from small parts (legs or wings), eggs and caterpillars, or even traces of butterflies that have been eaten by other animals.»

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

Although the slopes corresponding to adipocyte cross-sectional area for the subcutaneous depot were smaller than (and fell outside the 95 % confidence intervals of) the slopes for the mesenteric and perigonadal depots, this difference was entirely attributable to the fact that the data from three B6.V Lepob / ob mice fell below the line relating adipocyte area to macrophage content in the other animals (Table 1).

Perhaps because most other types of toads are much smaller than cane toads, plus the fact that the local toads «belong there», these little warty animals often are regarded with affection.

Space for housing limited numbers of small animal species other than mice is also available upon request.

These species facilitate the transfer of energy to higher trophic levels by consuming very small prey and then being eaten by larger, predatory fish and other marine animals.

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

That immediate grasp of small quantities is called subitizing, an ability that people and other animals may share.

Thus, the analytical tools developed by the Schroeder lab to identify structures and functions of biogenic small molecules will be transferable to other animal models.

Rather than condemning animal protein or even protein itself, we should be asking whether there is an intermediate level of protein that maximizes our protection against the small doses of toxins to which we are exposed every day, and whether other nutrients found in whole foods rich in protein allow us to reap the protective effects of protein safely.