Sentences with phrase «whether animals other»

One question in an animal cognition is whether animals other than humans have the ability to recognise themselves.

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GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.51 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.

GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.96 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.97 They plan to conduct such research and will encourage its use by companies.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

If Jesus and his father Joseph were carpenters (whether we understand that in the traditional sense of working with wood, or as Ray Vander Laan and others suggest, stone masons who perhaps helped build the Roman administrative city of Sepphoris), were they paid with animals and produce or with silver?

That it has had an effect on our little animal brains is apparent in the fact that there are many believers who have heeded the commandment to love one another whether it came from Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, Baha'u «llah, or any other Messenger.

We need not take a stand here on the problem whether some rudiments of mind, or self - awareness, or conscious mental activity, are present in animals other than man.

Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justice — in other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.

People kill for the sake of killing in this world, people chop down trees just for the pleasure of watching them fall, they kill little animals, there are people out there who live to wreak havoc on others, even in the most insignificant wayâ $» whether itâ $ ™ s making someone feel bad or attacking someone where it hurts the most.

Students explore how humans» feelings and needs are similar to those of other living beings, describe how animals confined to factory farms and transported to slaughterhouses might feel and debate whether humans can justify eating other animals.

But the truth is that many protein powders — whether they are plant - or animal - based — have plenty of other benefits that get forgotten about.

This thread of justice and equity is common to consumers, producers and all other stakeholders, whether they deal in plants, animals or human health.

GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.96 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.97 They plan to conduct such research and will encourage its use by companies.

There are doubts whether pepper spray will really work against a two - ton bull seal, but it's a possible alternative to shooting aggressive animals that are being driven into dangerous encounters by a lack of other food sources.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

Whether a hamster or a horse, Dr. Jalongo says, an animal gives a child something to talk about and a shared interest with other kids.

This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification / laser photogrammetry — making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.

Butterworth's concept of numerosity coding may be an important part of number sense, says Dehaene, but there is still much to learn about it — for instance, whether it is present in other animals or in children from a very early age.

But others are skeptical about whether this genetic connection extends widely in the animal kingdom.

Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»

Other projects aimed to show that animals have a theory of mind, the ability to model the thinking of others (as when we judge whether a poker player is bluffing or if a potential mate is truly in love).

The team found that 89 % of the animal studies were not published at all, making it impossible for the IRBs to know whether the study had been reviewed by other experts.

«We will look at how a code of neural signals is sent to the brain, to see if it is in fact faster than with other animals and whether it has other advantages,» says Marshall.

More work is needed to determine whether the findings on rapamycin hold true in animal models of Leigh syndrome and other neurodegenerative diseases, and to ascertain how exactly rapamycin is altering the metabolism of the cells.

He sees the capability of using the team's research in the future to design models that will help game managers, conservation managers, farmers and tour operators predict animal migration, whether it's zebras or other migratory animals.

And the trouble with extrapolating so much from mouse studies is that «nobody has actually shown over the long term how long these quote un-quote improvements persist, and we don't know whether it's broadly improving aspects of aging or it's specific to certain tissues,» said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist who studies aging in dogs and other animal models at the University of Washington.

Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.

«The OFC appears to carry a lot of varied information,» he notes, and although the activity that Redish and colleagues detected is intriguing, «discovering whether and how the animal uses each kind of information in other parts of the brain is still very much an ongoing task in the field.»

He's eager to know whether this same set of genes is involved in social responsiveness of other animals.

«We want to know whether this fragmentation is resulting in reduced gene flow or inbreeding or other things that might be detrimental to the animals.

«Farmers are very good about respecting each other, whether you farm animals, crops, trees or bees,» Catchot said.

Humans aren't the only social animal, however, and psychologist Annika Paukner wondered whether other primates share the imitation - friendship connection.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

They benefit animals and plants, whether through direct consumption or because nutrients find their way into plants and other food, including larval mayflies and other insects for which the dipper dives.

Some are known to be highly toxic to aquatic creatures, but little is known about whether they are actually harming frogs or other animals in the environment.

Humans, like other animals, alter their behavior depending on whether a threat is close or distant.

However, there are only scant data on whether animals do indeed travel along such strips, let alone whether they mate with inhabitants of other patches.

By comparing the hibernation habits of eastern dwarf lemurs and their western counterparts, researchers hope to shed light on what sends hibernating animals into standby mode, and whether lemurs — our closest genetic relatives known to hibernate — do it differently from other hibernating animals.

Researchers and health officials still do not even know whether bat - to - bat transmission, bat - to - human transmission or bat - to - other animal - to - human transmission is responsible for the beginning of the current outbreak.

However, to date it is still unclear as to whether the virus can hide in other animals to then cause new outbreaks in humans.

All sorts of other people, including antivivisection and animal welfare campaigners, increasingly scrutinise published papers in an attempt to judge whether research meets an acceptable ethical standard.

DiChristina: Well you can set them to work then back on the ground and then see what the worms do, so in this way you can directly test what the animals are doing, you know, whether they interact with each other.

That is, if your transgenic mouse company owns a separate company that does only animal shipping, the principles of consolidation explain whether the shipping company's earnings, expenses, and other financial information are incorporated in the numbers shown in this Annual Report, or whether they're separate and shown somewhere else.

The next step will be to demonstrate efficacy in larger animal models, as well as test whether this approach can be used to protect against or treat other diseases.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

More studies are needed to determine whether other birds and animals behave in a similar way, but the researchers suggest that installing special lights on planes could alert birds to begin their escape from a longer distance away.

At the time, he wondered whether one animal had given rise to the other.

Washington knew that the mechanisms involved in vision tend to be similar throughout the animal kingdom, so he wondered whether chlorophyll could also enhance the vision of other animals, including humans.

«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.