Some articles on animals, animal:
... Some animals, previously present in abundance, have disappeared, or the populations declined, through habitat loss ... Other animals became locally extinct through overhunting ... The Pennsylvania Game Commission brought 177 animals from the Rocky Mountains to the state from 1913 to 1926 today the elk herd of over 600 animals can often be seen in Quehanna Wild Area ...
... A farm often has pens of varying shapes and sizes used to shelter large and small animals ... The pens used to shelter large animals are called stalls and are usually located on the lower floor ... are kept), often set up as a breakroom a feed room, where animal feed is stored - not typically part of a modern barn where feed bales are piled in a stackyard a drive bay, a wide ...
... from Christianity on the account of the animals loaded in the ark ... primitive ropes, the flood was local, around the Dead Sea area, and the animals were Noah's domesticated animals ...
... Which foodstuffs were edible, which animals were to become man's totems and which were taboo, as these are either messengers or omens ... Taking a totem animal is allowed within the clan of that animal ... A man must present at least one of each one of his clan's totem animals to the heads of all the other clans to become a man ( among other rites of passage) ...
... Department of Justice defines a "service animal" for the legal purposes as "any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the ... Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition." This revised definition excludes all comfort animals, which are pets ... calmer when he or she is near the pet.) Unlike a service animal, a comfort animal is not trained to perform specific, measurable tasks directly related to the ...
Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)