Puppies with genetically - disposed diseases may
live a shorter life with more suffering than a well - bred genetically sound puppy.
«Massive
stars live short lives,» says lead author of the paper, Peter Scicluna, of the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan.
When scientists inhibited Sirt4 activity in fruit flies, the
flies lived shorter lives, had decreased fertility and activity, and had disruptions in metabolism and the way they use energy.
The poor but hard working people of
Haugerbain live short lives hunting game in the nearby forests and gathering whatever the harsh land will yield.
«We're in real danger of raising an entire generation of pets that will
live a shorter life expectancy than the dogs and cats we enjoyed as children.»
Many people enjoy watching these creatures hunt and eat, but, like humans, they will easily overfeed and
live a short life as a result.
Pet obesity contributes to a wide range of health problems, from arthritis to diabetes, and it has been well documented that obese
pets live shorter lives.
So if we don't take action now, today's kids and tomorrow's workers will be the first generation in history to
live shorter lives than their parents, not due to war but to complications from diabetes.
Get over your silly sky fairy fictions and get on with
living the short life that you have.
The curse of plentiful rich food may mean that young Australians become the first generation in a long time to
live shorter lives than their parents.
With an obesity epidemic in children like we have today, and the CDC reporting that children today will
live shorter lives than their parents, this is not something we want to take lightly.
Past studies have reported that self - control is partially inherited and partially learned and that those with less self - control are more likely to be unemployed, engage in unhealthy behaviors such as overeating, and
live a shorter life.
First, the skulls have decreased in size and, second, the evidence suggests that moose calves experiencing a warm first winter tended to be smaller as adults and
live shorter lives.
We found evidence suggesting that moose experiencing a warm first winter tended to be smaller as adults and
live shorter lives.»
Indeed, larger species live longer, and those that reproduce fast (lay more eggs)
live shorter lives.
«More social marmots are less likely to survive over the winter, and
they live shorter lives, on average,» said lead author Daniel Blumstein, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
And, says psychologist Sonia Cavigelli of the University of Chicago, they may
live shorter lives than their gregarious peers.
Small animals have a higher metabolic rate than big ones, and also tend to
live shorter lives.
Of those wolves,
all lived short lives, all were dead by 2011, and only one reproduced in this case, a single pup.
The ugly truth: Zoos are businesses Still, zoos have their drawbacks: Studies comparing the life spans of animals in zoological parks with their wild counterparts have found that captive animals tend to
live shorter lives.