Sentences with phrase «of warm blooded animals»

(Some say they'll let go of warm blooded animals on their own; but the natural response, which I share, is to yank it off with a free hand and get drunk in a failed attempt to forget it).

The virus attacks the brain of warm blooded animals, including people.

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Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott project the possibility and the desirability of extending the realm of moral consideration beyond the human community to include not only warm - blooded creatures, not only animals who can feel pain, but all living things and their systems and habitats (SCA 237 - 39, IDLE 76 - 94).

So, if you have dropsy, gout, or jaundice, by including some of your warm blood in the shell and white of an egg, which, exposed to a gentle heat, and mixed with a bait of flesh, you shall give to a hungry dog or hog, the disease shall instantly pass from you into the animal, and leave you entirely.

For more of a challenge, expand the subject to carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores, or animals that are cold - blooded or warm - blooded.

To get around those limitations, Hirt and her colleagues looked at previously collected data for a wide variety of creatures, including ectotherms (so - called cold - blooded animals) as well as warm - blooded endotherms.

One such unexplained trend is that warm - blooded land animals are usually faster than cold - blooded creatures of comparable size, whereas at sea the reverse is usually true.

Scientists now think this was caused by a bacterium that flourished because of a warmer, wetter spring and poisoned the animals» blood.

«Enzymes and bacteria typical of our warm - blooded meat animals normally work at 100 degrees Fahrenheit and slow to a crawl in a refrigerator at 40 °F.

The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species and specialized skin glands in monotremes that seep or ooze milk; the presence of hair or fur; specialized teeth; three minute bones within the ear; the presence of a neocortex region in the brain; and endothermic or «warm - blooded» bodies.

Prof. Dr. Martin Sander of the University of Bonn's Steinmann Institute summarizes the implications of this development: «This allowed dinosaurs to not only show off their colorful feathery attire, but to be warm - blooded animals at the same time — something mammals never managed.»

Fear that a warming climate will constrict this temperature range underlies recent studies that warn of the detrimental effects of climate change on the activity and survival of cold - blooded animals.

In earlier findings, Ruben argued that CAT scans of dinosaur nasal structure clearly suggested that dinosaurs were not warm - blooded, since they lacked the nasal «turbinates» that warm - blooded animals use to prevent excess heat and water loss while breathing.

It's very well adapted to living inside warm blooded animals that eat a lot of food that gets broken down into sugar.

warm - blooded Adjective for animals (chiefly mammals and birds) that maintain a constant body temperature, typically above that of their surroundings.

Only 250 million years after life reached the earth's surface emerged, the first warm - blooded animals appeared, as for example the dinosaurs of the Jurassic period, that disappeared 66 million years ago due to a supposed asteroid impact on Earth.

Since no warm - blooded animal can survive once its temperature is over 108 °F (42.2 °C) due to a coagulation of body proteins, monitoring your pet for signs of fever is important.

Although these different rabies variants prefer certain hosts, they are capable of infecting all warm - blooded animals, including pets and people.

The oocyst shedding leads to the other mode of infection for people and other warm - blooded animals: consuming feces that contain the oocysts, such as by eating a plant with feces residue or by gardening and not washing your hands before eating.

The Flea is a wingless, bloodsucking insect of the order Siphonaptera that parasitizes warm - blooded animals.

It is true that the risk of flea infestation for pets with an indoor lifestyle is lower than pets that frequent the great outdoors; however, fleas have the ability to jump quickly from one warm - blooded animal (e.g. people, animals passing through your property) to another (e.g. your indoor or outdoor dog or cat).

Hookworms thrive in moist warm environments; they get their name from the teeth like suckers they use to attach themselves to the intestinal wall where they feed on the blood of the animal.

«Toxo» is an internal parasite of many warm blooded animals.

RABIES infects all warm - blooded animals, including humans, with fatality at nearly 100 % of the infected, untreated victims.

The human temperature of 98.6 degrees and the dog temperature of 101.5 - 102 are both dependent on basal metabolic rate, just as the body temperatures of all warm - blooded animals depends on their BMR.

Rabies Vaccination Rabies is a fatal infection of the nervous system that can attack any warm blooded animal including a human.

All warm - blooded animals are susceptible to infection, and an untold number of animals die from rabies each year worldwide.

Fleas thrive in warm and humid weather, feeding on the blood of animals.

The new rule will also apply to large commercial breeders of other warm - blooded pets such as kittens and small mammals and will improve the welfare of thousands of animals across the country, including those in your own backyard.»

[7] In this system, arteries and veins are organized in a way to maintain a constant body temperature by having the cool blood flowing to the heart warmed by blood going to external areas of the animal.

A new study indicated that warm - blooded animals have a better chance of surviving climate change than cold - blooded creatures.

(Simple life forms can survive outside of these boundaries, and warm - blooded animals can live in below freezing conditions maintaining their body temperature through metabolism, to be accurate).

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