Nonetheless, the gruesome commerce flourishes because many Chinese believe in the medicinal value of the creatures.
Narratives often centre on historical epics featuring dynastic royalty, concubines, deities and supernatural creatures.
They were certainly reflecting about death in a way that their fellow-creatures did not.
Nearby is the Falcon Hospital, where owners of the fierce creatures bring them for treatment.
Among the dead were protected creatures such as a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques and a brown bear.
The mammalian skeleton is consistently recognisable in creatures as various as bats, monkeys, horses and humans.
Mr Strachan said people often bought the "cute little creatures", not realising they would grow.
Not so long ago, government-controlled companies were regarded as half-formed creatures destined for full privatisation.
Its "citizen scientists" logged common species, and also found creatures previously undetected in the area.
Whenever she got bored with the characters and plotlines, Ms. Harris added new supernatural creatures.
Max felt some relief, and yet the creatures were still closing in on him.
Other humans in the film raise deeper questions about what kind of creatures we are.
These intrepid creatures live at high altitudes and do not hibernate in the winter.
There are three types of creatures that determine what zones they can be played in.
"There is no solution because we tend to revert to being daytime creatures, " says Professor Waterhouse.
All else being equal, small creatures are "stronger" in lifting their bodies against gravity.
With his large features and solid but nimble body, he convincingly portrays otherworldly creatures.
Now these horses, for all their high character and unfailing common sense, are remarkably dreary creatures.
All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated.
Recently I was on a train to DC, thinking about human beings as tribal creatures.
Are we just stubborn creatures of habit who are slow to adopt a better solution?
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Big Data moving outside the Consumer Web is like sea creatures crawling onto land.
As you traverse the map, several high level creatures will wander set paths across the map.
Though, for the record, when it comes to sea creatures, I prefer the squid.
Authors are peculiar creatures if only because their work requires them to lie so frequently.
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The simple answer is that we cling to the misguided belief that humans are rational creatures.
Humans are the most social creatures in the world, and we thrive because of it.
It means respecting each of God's creatures and respecting the environment in which we live.
Further down the river about 80% of creatures vital to the food chain were affected.
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