Sentences with phrase «than smaller animals»

This poses a serious problem, as the bigger dogs with the stronger lungs can go out with less pain and complications, than the smaller animals that gasp, writhe and struggle to breath through the choking.

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.

Much cheaper than small animal litters because it is sold in larger quantities.

Technicians who do not wish to deal with clients and those who wish to specialize in a particular aspect of animal care can use their education and training in other than small animal practice.

For many years cats have been second - rate citizens in the pet world — more popular than small animals, but much less so than dogs; in recent years that has begun to change.

Not exact matches

While the pet - transportation unit is small, United Airlines ships more animals than any other U.S. carrier.

At Hess's clinic, one of only two in the country accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association, she even treats wallabies, marsupials similar to but smaller than kangaroos.

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

It says that a 600 - year - old man built a ship big enough to hold hundreds of thousands of animals, even though the ship was smaller than most current cruise ships.

Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

The ark was SMALLER than some of today's cruise ships; had to hold MILLIONS of different animals and a YEAR»S SUPPLY of food for millions of animals and 8 people.

I know the history of philosophy far better than I do current science, except some small parts of the latter having to do with sensation and animal behavior.

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.

Some of the lowest quality grain goes into animal feed - you don't want to buy grain to make your daily bread at a feed store, from accounts it is prone to be less clean than grain intended for human consumption and often has small stones in it which can damage many mills.

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

Report author Rabobank senior animal proteins analyst Angus Gidley - Baird said while the decline in prices would more than offset the small rise in production — meaning producers» incomes would generally be lower in 2018 — the outlook was still for an overall profitable 2018 for Australia's beef producers.

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.

Impossible Foods makes meat directly from plants — with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals

Animals from smaller farms vary more in terms of size and taste than their factory - farmed brethren.

While these standards make welfare better than conventional farming, «organic» does not guarentee that the meat was produced on a small farm, where animals roamed freely, or that the animals were treated humanely.

The design of this paci, since it has a small animal attached, helps keep it in place better than just a plain old paci.

And although he terms the new study «bold,» the factors that limit maximum speed in small animals are likely very different than those limiting large ones, he suggests.

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.

Spears and arrows would have let early hunters catch small fast - moving creatures rather than tackling large dangerous animals with hand - held blades.

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.

When injected with cancer cells, animals housed there developed tumors 80 % smaller than those in control mice, or no tumors at all.

By attaching small data - logging packs with motion sensors to the backs of four colugos, researchers found that it takes one - and - a-half times more energy for the animals to climb up a tree and glide from point A to B than it does for them to move the same distance through the trees.

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.

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

Microscopic fossil burrows found in ancient rocks reveal that small worm - like animals existed more than half a billion years ago

Species along the border are, in effect, competing with one another for DHS funding, and the larger animals tend to do better than smaller ones in the competition.

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

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.

For instance, domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild counterparts probably because they do not require the extra brainpower that could help them evade predators or hunt for food.

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

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

(Roughly, the more bison there are, the greater their genetic diversity and the longer it will take to find the common ancestor of two animals chosen at random — just as one would expect residents of a small English village to be more closely related than two people picked at random from the world population.)

Therefore, the small animals close to the eel get shocked, rather than the discharging eel itself.

«These results show that larger marine animals are poised to disappear from the seas faster than smaller ones,» Skog said.

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.

In today's oceans, larger - bodied marine animals are more likely to become extinct than smaller creatures, according to a Stanford - led report.

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

They discovered a pattern: Small - brained animals with fewer neurons in the wrinkly outer layer of the brain, called the cortex, had shorter yawns than large - brained animals with more cortical neurons.

This domino effect is a particular threat to animal species that only interact with a small number of plant species, since they are more sensitive to climate change than generalists.

Showing its transitional nature, the animal was slightly smaller than a modern black bear, with a flatter head and a combination of primitive and advanced dental characters.

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.

Animals that are routinely subject to pursuit are, on average, 20 percent smaller and reproduce at a 25 percent younger age than what would be expected without human influence, the researchers determined.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

This is because large animals disperse large seeded plant species often associated with large trees and high wood density — which are more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than smaller trees.

Soon after, more than 60 species of small Red Sea marine animals, known as foraminifera, also invaded the Mediterranean.