Sentences with phrase «other small animals in»

His works often depict flowers, birds and other small animals in his typical styling with clusters of dots.

If you are considering adopting a Greyhound and have cats or other small animals in the house, please mention this to your Adoption Coordinator who will work to find the right dog for you.

Pee Wee's Pals is focused on helping all types of dogs, cats and other small animals in need.

Always transport cats, small dogs and other small animals in a secure, well - ventilated pet carrier.

In addition to feeding your goldfish, you can also use these pellets to feed other small animals in your tank or pond, like frogs or turtles.

Interested in becoming a foster parent to a cat or dog or other small animal in need?

Not exact matches

Yet by that same token, when we regard the smallest humans as inferior to other animals, we are being «species - ist» in reverse.

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).

There are five main stories interwoven with another 32 small stories, in which animals and other creatures are the main figures.

Since you're getting so much from such a small package, it's easy to add in omega - 3s to your diet, just be sure you're also getting enough EPA and DHA, the type found in fish and other animal products.

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-...]

Isolated and nearly immobilized in such small crates, these sensitive animals are unable to even walk, turn around, or lie down comfortably, let alone play, explore, or engage in other natural behaviors that make life worth living.

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.

The competition encourages participants to reveal the Commonwealth's natural wonders, large and small: birds and other animals in their habitats, lush forests and fields, and people enjoying the outdoors.

«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.

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.

Yanik and colleagues, who have extensive expertise with high - throughput screening in zebrafish and other small animals, have teamed up with Anderson et al., who are leading experts in RNA delivery, to create a new platform for rapidly screening biologics and methods to deliver them.

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.

While feasting, the animals — just slightly bigger than mice — huddle together in a small group and appear to lick each other's faces.

«The animals — who are housed in unbearably small cages — live with fear, stress, disease, parasites and other physical and psychological hardships...» reports PETA.

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.

In the dark deep, sperm whales and other animals become «visible» because their movements disturb small organisms that give off light, similar to a flashing firefly.

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.

Balafoutas describes the underlying theory as follows: «Our basic assumption is that humans, in contrast to animals, cooperate with each other on various levels — not just in small groups, but also with strangers.»

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

Their bodies harbor a bacterium that helps them turn plant sap into usable nutrients, and this bacterium itself harbors an even smaller bacterium, creating a three - tiered symbiotic relationship that hasn't been observed in any other animal.

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.

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).

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.

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.

And like other animals, our bodies also convert ALA to EPA and DHA, but in smaller amounts, and not in the levels we need.

Net protein utilization tells us, among other things, that when we include animal protein in our diet, we can satisfy our daily protein requirements with smaller amounts of food than if we rely on vegetable products alone.

Pea protein, however, is a standout exception because it's rich in all nine essential amino acids except for methionine, which is easy to correct for by including small amounts of animal protein in your diet or even other plant proteins like rice protein.

When pregnant women eat lots of animal products, because of these pollutants in animal fats, they risk having babies with smaller brains, lower intelligence, poorer attention span, other cognitive impairments, and more pediatric respiratory infections.

Some cultures, such as the Inuit of the arctic and several tribes in Africa, thrived in stellar health on almost an entirely animal - based diet, and other cultures around the world thrived on almost an entirely plant - based diet... But all cultures generally had some mixture of plant and animal foods, even if the amount of animal food was small in some cultures, or the amount of plant food was small in other cultures.

Animal food was important to EVERY culture — and the fact that some ate it in smaller amounts than others doesn't make it less significant.