Sentences with phrase «smaller live animals»

But the stores sell other, smaller live animals, many from out - of - state breeders.

Not exact matches

Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

The ark could not have contained more than a very small proportion of the animal life on the globe, to say nothing of the food needed for them, nor could eight people have attended to their wants, nor apart from a constant miracle could the very different conditions they required in order to live at all have been supplied.

Well believers or not, lets say that all living things «plants, small animals and humans» were to attempt to join as one, reproduce, how long would life exist?

While in school I dreamed of having a dog as I grew up with countless animals, but the NYC apartment was too small and had too little extra time with my life being consumed with grad school.

Female breeding pigs were crammed inside «gestation crates» so small the animals could barely move for virtually their entire lives.

The graphic video also documents prolonged suffering of pigs used for breeding who are confined in gestation crates, two - foot - wide metal cages so small the animals can't even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for almost their entire lives.

«Individual consumers and major food companies alike have sent the message loud and clear that they don't support forcing pigs to spend their lives crammed inside cages so small they can't even turn around,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for The HSUS.

Nonetheless, live sales of cattle and sheep are a small slice of Australian meat exports, in part because it is easier to slaughter animals in Australia rather than ship them alive to Asia and the Middle East.

The graphic videos document prolonged suffering of pigs used for breeding who are confined in cages so small the animals can't even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for their entire lives.

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.

With the Niteangel Natural Living Tunnel System for small animals, your creatures will have multiple places to explore in an all - natural setting.

Timi lives on a small farm with her husband, two children and assorted animals.

We live on a small farm where we spend our time growing food, raising animals and enjoying the fun of being outdoors.

There was another law showing that life span increases as mass raised to approximately one - quarter, which translates into larger animals having a longer life span than smaller animals.

Although trees and birds and animals remain, humans are gone from the landscape, except for pockets of people who have drifted back, despite the official prohibition, to live and die in their small villages.

Sugar gliders can form very strong bonds with their human families, but as highly social animals they should live in pairs or small groups and must have a spacious enclosure, as well as a carefully monitored diet.

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.

They are microscopically small and live both on humans and animals.

At 3.75 - 4 meters long, this late Eocene animal was smaller than any of its living relatives, but the most important difference was in the skull.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

With feeding arms «adapted to grope for small organisms living in anoxic mud» and a cutting beak «appropriate for an opportunistic scavenger», the animal expends little energy in hunting and feeding.

Large animals also create living spaces for smaller critters.

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.

In China's Guizhou Province, a thin band of rock crowded with fossils smaller than poppy seeds may reveal the origin of all the animals that ever lived.

The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they were living as pets in small riverbank settlements — suggesting that the number of undiscovered species in the Amazon basin is even greater than scientists suspect.

Researchers have long observed that smaller animals have faster metabolic rates and shorter lives than larger ones.

Our work shows how animals living in a small geographic area can modify their appearance over time to match their respective environment.»

When a live animal — a small shrimp, perhaps — brushes against its tentacles, the hydra shoots out poisoned barbs to sting and paralyze its prey.

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

I live and write on a small farm in New York State, and since my work, most days, means asking questions about the world around me, I find myself wondering about the animals I live with.

The two animals at the forefront of this discussion are the woolly mammoth, a hairy, close relative of the elephant that lived in the Arctic, and the passenger pigeon, a small, gray bird with a pinkish red breast once extremely common in North America.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

Small animals have a higher metabolic rate than big ones, and also tend to live shorter lives.

The pet market boasted many of the same animals (if slightly smaller in size) as the markets for live food that I have seen.

The new study demonstrated the advantages of an in vivo DNA barcoding technique, which attaches small snippets of DNA to different lipid - based nanoparticles that are then injected into living animals; more than a hundred nanoparticles can be tested in a single animal.

Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.

There was only a small effect on animals fed on old animals for their entire lives; people don't tend to eat old animals and our diets are more varied.

Next - generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life.

«Colobops would have been a diminutive but plucky little beast, part of a little - known menagerie of small animals that lived among the first dinosaurs,» said Bhart - Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in geology and geophysics at Yale, and senior author of a new paper about the discovery in the journal Nature Communications.

After they injected a small amount of minced brain tissue into the brains of gerbils, however — which are very prone to BDV infection — the virus started multiplying, and they could isolate and culture live virus from the animals» brains.

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

Based on the fossils of extinct animal species, he had postulated as early as 1794 that all life had originated from small, microscopic mollusks.

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.

They lived in the shadow of the Rangeomorphs, he says, but when these larger organisms went extinct the small Ediacarans may have flourished, evolving into familiar animals.

She and her colleagues believe the clawed dino was an omnivore that ate vegetation, small animals and perhaps eggs while living on a wet floodplain.

«These small animals, known as Gardiner's frogs, have been living isolated in the rainforest of the Seychelles for 47 to 65 million years, ever since these islands split away from the main continent.