"Previous experiments have indicated that when you select for a reduction in aggressiveness, you obviously get a tamer animal but you also get an animal that retains juvenile characteristics much longer during development, sometimes into adulthood, " said Dr Axelsson.
There are 16 animal cops in New York City, and you might be familiar with them if you watch Animal Planet's Animal Precinct, the reality show chronicling their exploits.
When enacting laws for species conservation, for example, "you have to know what animal you're talking about or you're going to be in trouble, " says David Attenborough, the British naturalist.
Maybe you had a Steiff animal when you were a kid -- you know, the kind with that distinctive button-in-ear trademark.
"I can assure you every animal that travels with us is looked after and we will continue to do that, " he said.
Once you're a political animal, you know where the big seat in the zoo is, and it's being president of the United States.
How do you compare an animal dose to a human dose is a fairly complicated question, as you can imagine.
Because if you are strong and successful as an animal, you can afford to invest energy in such a useless thing.
"The whole point of the production method is to create this diseased liver, which is unlike any other form of animal agriculture where you're not just growing animals to be eating, but you're also torturing the animal to grossly enlarge its organs for consumption, " Bryan Pease, an attorney and chairman of the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League, said.
The park is home to every type of animal you and your children may have dreamed of.
If you did that to a dog for a week, you would face animal cruelty charges.
When you see this animal, it's very clear we need to prevent that stuff from happening.
"If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks, " he said.
This is the place where children have shape-shifting demons, little animal creatures that wander around with them, and then, later when you get older and you sort of firm up who you are that the animal solidifies into a specific animal.
And also, I think the most important thing - it's a respect for the animal that has you as the diner eating all parts of the animal.
Unlike, say, a Tamagotchi (or, you know, a real animal), Furby won't die if you don't feed it -- though it may get cranky.
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Mr. KOCHEVAR: Well, you know, any time that you're working with an animal in the context of a display, you have to be careful about, you know, what you do.
"The longer you transport a farm animal, the greater the stress and the more likelihood of suffering" he said.
Let's say that you feel bad about running over a small animal late at night, while you were feeling tired at the wheel.
"The mobile phone could be removed by dog thieves, but a microchip is a reliable, permanent form of identification linking the animal to you, " Miles said.
And sentiment--or animal spirits if you prefer Keynes' term--correlates to the current-quarter GDP growth rate.
It may have human payoff down the road, but in the process of doing this work, you're making an animal better.
You can be concerned with animal welfare while loathing animal-rightists, who are depicted as intolerant, prone to violence and probably communists.
That amounts to a strong case for animal experimentation, you might think.
Every time you push another one of your ideas onto someone else and do it without their permission or willingness to participate, you are the bore on animal husbandry.
Two wooden blocks, as any toddler knows, work fine as a percussion instrument, and give any Neanderthal half a gourd and a bit of animal skin and you've got a proto-Ringo.
You can then customize the suggestions based on your level of interest in various categories (like nature or culture), and then you can refine the results further by telling the site you are only interested in animal attractions and parks.
What he would say is, responsible meat-eating is eating an animal who has led a life that, you know, did not involve too much confinement, an animal that was treated well, an animal that was slaughtered humanely, which, again, a lot of people would say is an oxymoron.
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