Industrial-scale units house thousands of animals, cutting the cost of production through economies of scale.
BBC: East of England farmers could be hit by 'super dairies'
The Isle of Man's farming community is facing " catastrophic losses", as the search continues for thousands of animals buried in snow.
An official who was slaughtering thousands of animals during last year's foot-and-mouth crisis fiddled his expenses and spent the extra cash on alcohol.
The centre at Martlesham, which was set up in 1970 and has treated thousands of animals, has only 80 days of funding left.
If rains do not come in the next month or so, tens of thousands of animals could fall to thirst and poachers' bullets.
Thousands of animals can linger in homelessness, but if one gets media attention for having a particularly interesting story, it is swarmed with interested adopters.
Army personnel are due to arrive in the area on Monday to help with the cull of thousands of animals on farms adjoining the outbreaks.
In addition, 92% of people who received warning notices from RSPCA inspectors chose to follow them rather than risk possible prosecution, resulting in much-improved lives for thousands of animals.
More than three weeks after the hurricane struck, with thousands of animals still clogging emergency shelters in Louisiana, FEMA hasn't provided basic veterinary equipment and supplies to its teams there.
It was the first of 118 cases which spread to farms - first across the north Wales island and then onto swathes of Powys and Monmouthshire with thousands of animals having to be culled.
The expected announcement, due to be revealed in a written answer to a parliamentary question, comes only ten days after it emerged trading standards officers had reported thousands of animals being moved illegally by farmers and livestock dealers.
Four hundred men from families that had been evicted, or were facing eviction, drove thousands of the animals from the hills.
Although deer numbers appeared stable in the area, this was only because thousands of the animals were being pushed out into the surrounding countryside each year.
"These wonderful creatures roamed this country before we did, it's wrong because it's a destruction of tens of thousands of living animals and there is no scientific evidence it will do any good at all, " he said.
But the thousands of years of hybridizing plants and animals by humans has, if anything, psychologically and economically predisposed our kind to tampering with nature for our own ends.
Humans have been herding animals for thousands of years, but by applying our understanding of ecology, we can use herd animals to reverse environmental damage and actually keep more animals, to boot!
Criminals can get hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds, for animals including spaniels, Labradors and retrievers.
SeaWorld says it supports wildlife conservation, research and education and has rescued thousands of stranded and sick animals.
Despite being separated by thousands of kilometres, these animals were genetically very similar to each other and to the classic racing homer breed.
Based on a thorough review of data submitted by Lilly that was obtained from pre-clinical testing in animals and clinical trials in thousands of diabetics, FDA granted marketing approval for human insulin in October 1982.
Thousands of people and scores of companion animals remain missing or injured, while an as yet unknown number are dead.
Many animals are recovered thousands of kilometres from their natural habitat, and more often than not it is not a simple matter of opening a cage to let them go, though this sometimes happens.
Hundreds of dealers proudly display their animals before judges, fellow traders, farmers and thousands of enthusiastic visitors.
If carbon dioxide levels go up 100 ppm over thousands or millions of years, plants and animals can adapt.
The results are worrying, however, because ecologists conduct thousands of studies each year that involve analysing animals caught in traps.
If carbon dioxide levels go up 100 parts per million over thousands or millions of years, plants and animals can adapt.
Thousands of elephants, giraffes, zebras and other animals are in danger because there is not enough water to drink at the Hwange National Park.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is among many animal welfare agencies that are trying to help the hundreds of thousands of creatures victimized by the hurricane.
The outlays let biologists survey habitats, tag and track animals, build hatcheries and provide ecological training to thousands of troops.
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With more than 250 teams from as far as New York and Chicago competing, plus tens of thousands of visitors, this culinary cook-off gets attention from folks as diverse as redneck party animals to celebrity chefs (like Tom Colicchio and Danny Meyer).
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