Sentences with phrase «than animal bites»

Human bites are more likely to become infected than animal bites.

Not exact matches

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

By the way, I had always felt that Gandhi's quote was a bit self - serving coming from him, as respect for animals is one of the few things that Hinduism and other eastern religions does better than most.

Interesting on the crust and the coconut custard, maybe the oil in the coconut burns at a lower temperature than the animal fat in the cream and eggs and thus it tastes a bit off?

«Seahorse parenting goes a little bit differently than in the rest of the animal kingdom.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

Falcarius had a sizable gut designed to ferment plants, and teeth better suited for shredding leaves than biting another animal.

Jaenicke's 15 - year study found that more than a billion tons of bioaerosols — bits of proteins and cells, animal fur, dandruff, dead plants, and insects — are sloughed off into the atmosphere every year, an amount about 20 times greater than previously estimated.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

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?

Analyzing much smaller bits of animal bone than Mellaart ever found, Martin has determined that most of them did not come from cattle; most came from sheep and goats.

But strangely for an animal with a tougher bite than a great white shark, some of the bones that make up a T. rex skull are not fused and would only have been held together by connective tissue.

That's greater than the bite of almost any animal on land, including leopards, most bears, and wild dogs.

«We know, for example, that oxygen was likely very high a bit more than 2 billion years ago — but there were no animals,» he says.

When scientists used computers to simulate how biting would strain S. melilutra's jaws, they concluded that the animal had much firmer jaw bones than expected.

Bites from domestic animals (primarily dogs) account for more than 90 percent of bBites from domestic animals (primarily dogs) account for more than 90 percent of bitesbites.

Thanks to hippos» stunning wound - healing abilities — perhaps related to the antibacterial properties of the creepy «red sweat» that coats their skin — all the surviving animals were able to return to their feces - infested communal pools within hours of the surgery with no negative consequences, just a little bit nicer than when they left.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Unmasking the Zorro of the avian world, The worm that looks like a tree, The bird that cares for its rival's chicks, Itsy bitsy teeny weeny chameleons, Don't bite — how the zebra got its stripes, The only males with more brain than females, How a blurry - eyed spider pounces on target, Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own, Unique life form is half plant, half animal, Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip, My brain's so big it spills into my legs, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, To kill a mockingbird?

Of note, the plasma glucose values obtained for our untreated Tg - hIAPP animals were a bit lower than those reported by Janson et al. (1996).

«Until now, it's only been suspected that mosquitoes bite males — whether they're humans, birds or other animals — more often than females,» he said.

But Dog is also a pack animal, so choose your loyalties carefully in 2018 — and avoid the divisive Alpha figure whose bark may (or may not) be worse than their bite.

I eat a whole foods plant based diet, no oil, no animal foods, and some days I can approach 20 % if I have a bit more tahini or nut butter than usual.

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They are I: meat cooked on the bone; II: organs and offal (what Bourdain calls «the nasty bits»); III: fresh (raw) plant and animal products; and IV: better than fresh — fermented and sprouted.»

Most organic beauty items are a little bit expensive, however it is better than tested with animals.

For me, ditching meat and chicken more than 30 years ago had less to do with a concern for animal welfare and more with a distaste for biting into bone or chewing on a piece of fat.

«It's still a bit of a mystery why they are overeating, but we definitely have evidence that the animals getting artificially sweetened yogurt end up eating more calories than the ones getting calorically sweetened yogurt.»

As an enthusiastic vegan cook and an herbalist, I just had to play with the classic recipe a little bit to see if I could make an animal - friendly version that's even more effective and delicious than the original.

If that sounds like it's just getting a bit too silly, fear not, since the whole animal transformation angle is more of an audience - baiting ruse than an essential part of the narrative, which is more dystopian satire than surreal flouncery.

Large wheels and narrow tire sidewalls conspire to yield a choppier ride than expected â $ «a bit like animal hooves pounding the pavement.

If you suspect your animal has been bitten by a snake, seek care immediately at an emergency facility which is more likely to keep antivenin in stock than a general practice vet.

Impossible though it is to diagnose rabies at a glance, millions of healthy animals have been executed for no more than drooling or biting in self - defense.

These wild animals are outdoors 24/7, so they're exposed to a much higher risk of being bitten by mosquitoes than our domestic dogs who spend most of their time indoors.

Animal control departments in at least 25 U.S. states report that pit bulls are biting more than all other dog breeds.

«The injuries these dogs inflict are more serious than other breeds because they go for the deep musculature and don't release; they hold and shake,» says Sheryl Blair of the Tufts Veterinary School, in North Grafton, Mass., which last year held a symposium entitled Animal Agression: Dog Bites and the Pit Bull Terrier.

SHERYL BLAIR, Tufts Veterinary School symposium — Animal Aggression: Dog Bites and the Pit Bull Terrier The injuries these dogs inflict are more serious than other breeds because they go for the deep musculature and don't release; they hold and shake.

The beleaguered 51 - employee department gets more than 25,000 complaint calls, responds to nearly 2,800 bite cases, and impounds 11,200 animals and exterminates 9,000 of them.

Like their counterparts in big cities, dog owners in Lake County may have to start cleaning up after their pets with pooper scoopers.That was one of several changes to the county's animal control ordinance suggested during a public hearing Tuesday.The revamped proposal, which aims primarily to stop vicious animals before they bite or harm someone, will undergo more tinkering to include suggestions like cleaning up after dogs.Pooper scoopers will be needed if the county sticks with the idea to ban defecating by dogs on both public and private property other than that belonging to the animal's owner, County Commissioner Richard Swartz said.

Animal - control records show that less than a week before the poodle was killed, another neighbor reported that one of Amende's female pit bulls bit the neighbor's 10 - year - old Rottweiler - Labrador retriever mix.

More than 100 pit bulls were brought to shelters in the Los Angeles area after an animal control officer there was badly bitten by a pit bull, said Barbara Cassidy, director of animal sheltering and control at the Humane Society of the United States.

Any animal which, when unprovoked and off the property of the owner or keeper, bites a person and breaks the skin, but causes less than severe injury.

Flea bite saliva is very allergenic (with some animals» response being more pronounced than others), so flea allergy dermatitis (FAD, or skin inflammation due to flea bites and saliva) is not exclusive to the bitten body part.

Examples: Afghan, Borzoi, Greyhound, Saluki; Rhodesian Ridgeback My Favorites: Greyhounds; Italian Greyhounds Hunters by sight «triggered to chase and bite moving objects and animals Need same amount of exercise as any other working breed Not bred to obey commands; they are game chasers Can easily jump fences if you aren't watching; very athletic and muscular Usually not dog fighters, but will chase and kill some small animals; Rhodesian Ridgebacks are more pack oriented, more likely to be territorial, and can do higher levels of obedience than typical sighthounds; can be quite protective of the owner and property; not for novices Tough on the outside, soft on the inside.

2904, 115 L.Ed.2 d 1067 (1991)(harboring a «dog commonly known as a pit bull dog» is prima facie evidence of ownership of a vicious dog); City of Richardson v. Responsible Dog Owners of Texas, 794 S.W. 2d 17 (Tex. 1990); Greenwood v. North Salt Lake City, 817 P. 2d 816, 821 (Utah 1991)(pit bull dogs «are known for a unique combination of strength, agility, tolerance for pain, ․ aggressiveness ․ were historically bred for fighting and killing, ․ have experienced a proportionately higher number of bites and attacks ․ [and] that Animal Control treats pit bull dogs differently than other breeds»); American Dog Owners Assoc. v. City of Yakima, 113 Wash. 2d 213, 217, 777 P. 2d 1046, 1048 (1989); Dog Federation of Wisconsin, Inc. v. City of South Milwaukee, 178 Wis. 2d 353, 367, 504 N.W. 2d 375, 381 (Wis.Ct.App.)

Before reaching out to an area animal shelter for help, O'Grady fed his hungry new passengers (salad for the bunny and some lunch meat for the dog), and then went the extra mile to get supplies for the rabbit, who O'Grady learned would be traveling with him quite a bit further than the dog.

Other than that, going by what they look like is about the stupidest way of making sure you're not going to get a neurotic, unappreciative, badly bred animal that bites neighbors, chews shoes, fouls upholstery, howls at night and chases bicycles.

It is uncommon for hypersensitivity to develop in very young animals (less than 6 months of age) because they do not yet have a fully developed immune system to react to the flea bite.

I mean, I'm not saying you should feed your dog the mulch or anything, but you might want to relax a bit and just accept the fact that nature leads animals far more than we are ever going to be able to do.

This year alone, they have responded to nearly 7,200 animal - related complaints, transported more than 2,000 dogs, cats and other critters to animal shelters and recorded about 15 bite cases each month.

Most dogs bite out of fear rather than anything else, but the Staffordshire Terrier is literally fearless so it is great with children, other animals and people too.