Sentences with phrase «of other wild animals»

 And we have our fair share of other wild animals that can become a nuisance.
Wild animals are evolutionary adapted to outdoor environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity and the presence of other wild animals.
Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet minister given the job of drawing up the manifesto, has agreed to commit to a free vote on 2004's Hunting Act, which outlawed the hunting of foxes and a number of other wild animals with hounds.

Not exact matches

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.
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.
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Restless, like a wild animal, Charles Ingalls eschews the company of those other than his family.
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).
Nobody can assess the mental qualities of a dog without having once possessed the love of one, and the same thing applies to many other intelligent socially living animals, such as ravens, jackdaws, large parrots, wild geese and monkeys.
Moreover, the food God gives the wild animals is, of course, other, weaker animals.
But wishing this is doubly wicked, since it also discounts the damage to the souls of the perpetrators — as if other imprisoned men are no more than wild animals to whom we throw further malefactors.
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.
The key is to make sure you're getting plenty of Omega - 3 fats as well from plant - based foods like flax and chia seeds, walnuts and greens, as well as animal sources like wild salmon and other seafood.
«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.
The pain of being rejected over and over for weeks on end is far greater than the physical effect but combine them both and you have a wild animal who comes on sites like this and talks about fucking other people.
The wild turkey known to most locals as Tom — beloved by some and disdained by others - was trapped by an animal control officer after police received an increased number of complaints about him.
Oliver sent his postdoctoral student Tom Kollars to trap animals, including wild rabbits, at a farm where two of Masters» patients had developed EM rashes along with arthritis, muscle aches and other Lyme - like symptoms after lone star tick bites.
Injuries from wild animals are relatively uncommon, with a risk of unusual infections and other potentially severe complications, according to a paper in the November issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Over thousands of years, these early farmers domesticated the first crops and transformed sheep, wild boars and other creatures into domestic animals.
He thinks surveillance of an entire rural ecosystem — pigs, birds, people, as well as dogs, cats, horses, and other domesticated and wild animals — would finally yield some deeper insights into why and how flu viruses evolve.
«Hence, our findings offer hope that amphibians and other wild animals threatened by fungal pathogens — such as bats, bees, and snakes — might be capable of acquiring resistance to fungi and thus might be rescued by management approaches based on herd immunity.»
Disease in wild animals can have a greater impact on the health of others than on the infected animals themselves, a study suggests.
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 movements of marine mammals and other large animals that spend their lives in the ocean were largely unknown prior to the development of sophisticated tracking devices researchers could deploy on animals in the wild.
Other wild animal disease donors include rats, the source of the plague and typhus.
That type of facial remodeling is part of the domestication syndrome, which also includes curly tails, floppy ears and other characteristics common among domesticated animals but not wild ones.
Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.
If cats sport genetic changes akin to those of other domestic animals, why are they still a bit wilder than our other favorite domesticate, the dog?
In the mid-1980s, this region had possibly the highest density of wild pandas in all of China — feces and other signs of bamboo consumption could be seen everywhere — but observing the animals themselves seemed impossible.
But another hypothesis holds that folktales mutate and evolve so quickly that all of these stories emerged and evolved independently from each other; their similarities are due to chance and the universality of a world filled with wild animals and vulnerable children.
While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.
Over generations, the human appreciates some benefit that the animal provides and encourages its presence while the animal becomes separated from others of its kind in the wild.
Horses and other animals typically used for transport are products of directed domestication: Humans take an animal out of the wild with a specific use in mind, and breed subsequent generations for that purpose.
His adviser at the time, animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.
However, contrary to many of the continent's other wild animals, these long - necked giants are still rather poorly studied.
Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.
Species in zoos are often protected from total extinction because they are commonly the subjects of captive breeding programs in which staffers entice animals to mate and reproduce offspring that can then be released into the wild or shared with other zoos.
It would not be ethical to intentionally create stressful situations for the animals as a test, she notes — which is why, until now, researchers have had to rely on well - documented but anecdotal observations of wild and captive elephants to back up claims that they reassure each other.
University of Adelaide researchers in Australia, supported by the Invasive Animals Co-operative Research Centre, have developed a model of the likelihood of establishment of alien species of snakes and other reptiles if they are introduced to the wild, accidentally or on purpose.
More animals died as a result of interactions with humans than from any other cause, and captive - born animals suffered more fatalities from human interactions than their counterparts caught in the wild.
Beisiegel says she hopes her videos will inspire others to protect jaguars and reject a bill currently moving through the Brazilian Congress that would legalize the sport hunting of wild animals.
«It's the first instance we're aware of to show wild animals detecting illness in others,» says Butler.
«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.
The findings give new insights into the social behaviour of birds and demonstrate how social interactions can shape other aspects of wild animals» lives, such as the environmental conditions they will experience based on their choice of home location.
Latest research on social networks in wild baboon troops has revealed how the animals get information from each other on the whereabouts of food.
While we all hope and work towards keeping the snow leopard alive in the wild zoo populations also have their role in helping to educate the public about conservation of this and other endangered animals.
He suspects that other scientists will start looking for copied genes in the evolutionary history of other animals, both domestic and wild.
To expand their existence for many other generations through their new born animals descendants.Thank you again.Heaven bless you and protect you all.Thank you again, you really care about the future of those wild animals.
In comments to the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, ten other conservation groups, and several bee scientists have formally asked for protection of wild bumble bees from the threat of disease.
Arizona authorities have long opposed the release of captive wolf families into the wild, even though that is the most reliable means of bringing in more genetically diverse animals to ensure the survival of the wild population; currently, nearly all the wolves are related to each other as if they were siblings.
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