Meanwhile, science keeps chipping away at the wall that separates us from the other animals.
Horton gets mightily abused by the other animals in the jungle, who think he's nuts and hearing voices.
Caesar spreads the serum to the other animals, and what starts as a prison revolt quickly becomes a species revolt.
Some of the scenes are surprisingly troubling, including one moment when a dog nearly drowns while the other animals turn away from him.
And the reason that earlier generations got this is that they understood that game playing is really what sets us humans apart from the other animals.
The rabbit had a nervous breakdown because the other animals said she looked like a rat when she jumped in the water for swimming class and all her hair got matted down.
When Babe (who's made friends with a bruiser of a dog) releases them, Thelonious quietly informs the other animals that he's "not dressed" and proceeds to methodically slip on his pants and suspenders as danger quickly approaches.
They act as grazers on the ocean floor (manatees are the only other animals that do this), helping keep a balance under the sea for other creatures to live and breed.
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The other is that animals on the edge are likely to be encountered by a predator first.
The stone cages would have held the tigers, lions and other exotic animals that were hoisted in wooden elevators through 80 vertical tunnels up to the arena. 2000 years ago, it must have been chaos down here with the gladiators, animals, large sets for other parts of the productions and hundreds of stagehands putting on the show.
Leitrim county veterinary officer James Madden described it as an "extreme case" of dog hoarding and said the woman was breeding some of the animals, but also appeared to be taking in other abandoned animals at the property.
The ASPCA is receiving offers to adopt the animals from other New York residents every day.
And though most of the wildebeest have yet to arrive, other animals crowd the plains.
They plan to chip the rhinos and other endangered animals with unique radio frequency ID tags, which the drones will be able to recognize and locate.
In addition to the 11 starved tigers, at least 10 other animals at the zoo died in the same period, although some reports put the number at 22 and others 30.
In the 1990s, the first white rhinos were imported from South Africa and the results of the breeding programme saw the animals transferred to other reserves in Kenya, including Lake Nakuru National Park, Sweetwaters Game Reserve and Lewa Downs Conservancy.
So we cannot justifiably use these criteria to draw a distinction between all humans on the one hand and all nonhuman animals on the other.
He said that some whales appeared to guard the bottom of this "bait ball", preventing the prey from sinking to unreachable depths, while other animals in the group took advantage of the centre of the ball.
MPs who have enjoyed the chance to debate prisoner voting, Hillsborough, an EU referendum, the treatment of circus animals and all the other issues it has facilitated, should beware, at least a little.
When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role.
This incorporates a safety factor of 1, 000 on the lowest observed adverse effect level of antinomy in animals--in other words, the first statistically significant health problem in animals came from inhaling antimony at a level of 9000 micrograms per meter cubed.
Those toxins can affect the central nervous systems of fish and other vertebrates, causing the animals to die.
The two elephants have been suffering from tuberculosis, and the city authorities have insisted that they should be put to sleep as they pose a threat to other animals in the zoo and its visitors.
Since cesium binds to the sediment on the ocean floor, the radiation has likely had the biggest effect on bottom-dwelling fish and other animals though the consequences still aren't clear, said Tatsuo Aono, a specialist at Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences.
His overall aim, he explained, was to distil "the principles by which ants and other animals manipulate complex environments" and bring them to bear in the design of search-and-rescue robotics.
Edinburgh Zoo said it had hidden nothing from the public and that officials had been left with no option other than to destroy the animals.
The mice also spent less time with other animals, preferred closed spaces and trembled noticeably when handled by the scientists.
The trust said the group was at risk as a result of the "skewed" demographics and its studies suggested the animals had become isolated from other groups in the north east Atlantic.
"The animal was at risk from the weather conditions and other predatory animals, " he added.
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