Sentences with phrase «other groups of animals»

Other groups of animals seemed to do okay, though.

The findings could shed light on how other groups of animals behave en masse, such as herds of wildebeest, schools of fish, and even crowds of humans.

But some other groups of animals are facing similar steep declines.

One group of animals was pretreated with a specific inhibitor of NFAT and the other group of animals received only vehicle.

Unfortunately, kittens younger than eight weeks old account for more of the animals killed in most municipal shelters than any other group of animals.

John Woinarksi: Australian mammals have suffered a terrible crisis over the last 200 years, probably a greater rate of extinction than any other group of animals in the world over that time period.

Because of this, birds are more susceptible to toxins in the air than any other group of animals.

Not exact matches

You can «zoom in» on plants and other creatures and become «one» with them, then create a group of animals.

Last year, Airlines for America, a trade group representing United and other large U.S. airlines, included the reporting requirements of animal deaths or injuries among those federal rules it would like to see repealed or changed.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

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.

When with others, you start getting into group morality, which is something that comes with cultures of social animals, such as we are.

Those groups of animals which evolved the ability to help each other, were more likely to survive.

Maple Lodge Farms also strictly adheres to the Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Poultry, a series of strict industry guidelines developed by farm groups, animal welfare groups, veterinarians, animal scientists, federal and provincial governments, related agricultural sectors and others.

Submitting to pressure from animal rights groups including Mercy for Animals and the Humane Society of the United States, Walmart joins dozens of other major food companies making the switch.

For a meat product to be certified organic it must also have been processed at a certified organic abattoirs which keeps cattle in their social groups, provides comfortable holding pens with feed, water and bedding, don't kill animals in the line of sight of other animals and render animals unconscious before they're killed.

One group of the animals exercised in the fasting state while the others had sugar, whole milk, or whey protein.

Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.

Restaurants, grocery stores and other food industry groups are transforming their supply chains, voters and state legislatures are taking a stand and undercover investigations are opening consumers» eyes to the plight of farm animals.

The emphasis here, more than any other food group, is on the quality and provenance - animal produce must be of the highest quality: organic, grass - fed, outdoor - reared, free - range, line - caught.

Certified organic abattoirs keep cattle in their social groups, provide comfortable holding pens with feed, water and bedding, don't kill animals in the line of sight of other animals and render animals unconscious before they're killed.

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.

In the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuit.

• 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

The annual Bob Evans Memorial Predator Calling Hunt, which last year raised the hackles of an animal rights group and others, was cancelled earlier this month due to lack of entries by the event's registration deadline.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the bill's sponsor, Jessica Lappin, said the legislation was a response to an animal «emergency» in New York, and released statements in support of the new law from the ASPCA and PETA, among other animal - advocacy groups.

Yet while many animal rights groups applauded the measure, other organizations and some elected officials condemned it as a ploy to relieve the city of having to provide additional services and of possibly losing a lawsuit challenging its treatment of animals.

At up to 15 metres long, the necks of one group of dinosaurs grew six times as long as those of any other land animal.

The evolution of complexity The traditional view of the issue postulates that the sponges were the first group to diverge from the lineage that gave rise to all other animals — in other words, Porifera are the sister group of all other animal species.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

Zoologists are taught that life starts with animals, and they block out four - fifths of the information in biology [by ignoring the other four major groups of life] and all of the information in geology.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

Many animals yawn, but only humans and a few other primates are known to trigger cascades of yawns around a group.

Previously, it was thought that a group of animals that has diversified rapidly will later diversify more than others after a mass extinction.

At the end of the last ice age, both horse groups became extinct in North America, along with other large animals like woolly mammoths and saber - toothed cats.

We have seen animals in groups of 40 or more that stay exactly the same distance away from each other and swim vertically to create a shape resembling a double helix.

That's the demand made in a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by an animal law expert at Harvard University, together with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and several other animal welfare groups.

Still, he says, other groups have arrived at opposing results regarding the role of T cells in the disease, in part, perhaps, because their animal models aren't the same.

They found that, within the first three days of injury, fish in the concussion group were slower to find a school of fish with which they previously swam, a measure of spatial memory which is impaired in other animal models of concussion and human patients.

The researchers monitored groups of neurons in the visual processing areas of macaque monkeys as the animals paid attention to one particular stimuli and ignored others around them.

In general, the group's lyrics are distinctly naturalist — painting pictures of wildlife and untouched ecosystems — but birds tend to appear in these narratives more often than other animals.

The specific forms of each coccolith most likely evolved under pressure from zooplankton, the microscopic animal group a notch up the food chain that developed mandibles, claws, and other accoutrements for getting past the hard calcite coccoliths.

The animals make close friendships, hoot in celebration, and kiss each other in greeting.Such behavior is even more exaggerated among the lightly built bonobos, each of which uses sex with every member of the group — male and female both — to say hello or calm tensions.

The tick enmeshed in the feather belongs to the same group of ticks as the deer ticks that bite humans and other animals today.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

In a similar way, we and other groups have early data that exposure of rats and mice to high levels of social stress can make the offspring of those animals more susceptible to social stress, again something that persists for several generations.

The growth of plaques in animals receiving APOE3 was intermediate between that of the other two groups and similar to what was seen in control animals.

For years, scientists have been debating the phylogenetic position of brachiopods and molluscs, as well as their affinities for other animals in the same group, the Lophotrochozoa, comprising segmented worms, clams, oysters, snails, squids, and so on.