Small animals often fall prey to the speeding traffic on the highway, while larger animals face other risks.
That is when evidence appears of small animals being eaten routinely and plant foods being gathered.
There was also an evacuation center for small animals at San Jacinto Valley Animal Services, Cal Fire said.
Some start life by killing small animals, while others are not that obvious.
He said she worked mainly with small animals such as pets and dogs since joining the surgery in May 2011.
It is used for carrying produce, catch, firewood, babies or small animals as well as for shopping and for storing things in the home.
The genetically altered mice wound up with redder muscles than their unmodified peers, meaning the small animals were more packed with muscle fiber and less with fat.
The four kilometers on either side of the border are crisscrossed only by small animals, and the absence of any human activity creates a false sense of calm.
Many products are perfectly designed to fit small animals.
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"Kites are opportunistic scavengers, to conserve energy they feed mostly on worms and small dead animals, which they can see from a great height", Mr Straughan said.
Small burrowing animals and also areas where an invertebrate called "feather stars" live could be affected, according to the report commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
This suggests that all present-day bison are descended from a very small group of animals.
This is good news for conservationists trying to preserve the threatened species as small populations of animals can face problems of inbreeding.
If an oil spill is small enough, animals can leave the area.
The country has been involved in relocating elephants to countries such as Angola but this has only involved a relatively small number of animals.
There is strong historic evidence to suggest that these horses were the small but strong animals used as the original chariot horses, 3, 000 years ago.
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Only a vanishingly small fraction of prehistoric animals died in the perfect conditions--including a swift cover of sediment--necessary to fossilize bones in the first place.
The land was adjacent to Nairobi Garrison and was a village with areas for domesticated farm animals, small woods for wood gathering, water streams etc.
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More importantly, the meat from which I source also contributes to the building and replenishment of top soil, ie pastured animals on small farms that eat much closer to a natural diet, are thoughtfully managed, and raised by people who are passionate.
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He said his company tests 1, 000 to 2, 000 animals a year, which he described as "a small percentage" of the overall number of animals it renders.
The problem: it is easy to do a small study in a few animals or a few people, and reach some optimistic conclusion that can be spun into good marketing copy.
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In the U.S., partly in response to complaints by animal-rights activists, handlers at slaughterhouses are supposed to keep pigs calm by moving them along in small groups, and the animals are required to be rendered unconscious and unable to feel pain before they are killed.
Ty Warner was criticized when he began to market his small-sized, understuffed beanbag animals.
Bags and small plastic pieces can entangle marine animals causing them to drown.
It failed to perform key tests on experimental animals, or on small groups of people in clinical trials, before launching the pills on an unsuspecting public.
Phthalates have been shown to affect the development of the male reproductive system in lab animals, and a few small studies suggest they may be linked to subtle effects in the reproductive organs of infant boys.
Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to explore hard-to-reach spaces and track down suspects.
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Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraft will photograph poachers and track animals via smart radio tags.
One small consolation, however, is that the animals themselves are likely too light to actually set off the explosives.
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For those few readers who do not yet know, Beanie Babies are sleek cloth animals about the size of a small weasel, loosely stuffed with small plastic pebbles.
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