As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

Its most notable feature are its long, narrow, upcurved jaws with a pointed tip, making the animal look like a pair of flying tweezers.

Atahualpa was in awe of these men dressed in full clothing, with long beards and riding horses ( an animal he had never seen ).

Since the turn of the 21st century, many aspects of animal communication, animal emotions, animal culture, learning, and even sexual conduct that experts long thought they understood, have been reexamined, and new conclusions reached.

Some hunters, however, do their hunting in areas of dense cover where long guns would be awkward, or they relish the increased challenge involved in handgun hunting due to the necessity of approaching the game animal more closely.

The giraffe's head and neck are held up by large muscles and a nuchal ligament, which are anchored by long dorsal spines on the anterior thoracic vertebrae, giving the animal a hump.

These nerves are longer in the giraffe than in any other living animal ; the left nerve is over long.

Before long, a falcon representing Horus became the norm as the animal on top, with the individual Pharaoh's symbol usually appearing in the box beneath the falcon, and above the stripes representing the palace.

If there had been contemporary paintings on trees, animal skins or hillsides, they would have been washed away long ago.

A macrobiotic diet ( or macrobiotics ), from " macro " ( long ) and " bios, biot -" ( life ), is a dietary regimen which involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as local vegetables, avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods and most animal products.

Their long legs and bone structure suggest an animal that was adapted to running at high speeds over rough terrain.

Given its long stability and isolation, New Caledonia serves as a unique island refugium — a sort of biological ' ark ' — hosting a unique ecosystem and preserving Gondwanan plant and animal lineages no longer found elsewhere.

The tongue of the okapi is also long enough for the animal to wash its eyelids and clean its ears ( inside and out ).

This is a long staff mounted with an animal head.

Writing on prepared animal skins had a long history, however.

In animal cells, the very long fatty acids are converted to medium chain fatty acids, which are subsequently shuttled to mitochondria where they are eventually broken down to carbon dioxide and water. In yeast and plant cells, this process is exclusive for the peroxisomes.

Whether this whole process resembles animal apoptosis closely enough to warrant using the name apoptosis ( as opposed to the more general programmed cell death ) is unclear.

Nevertheless, the animal can still supply enough oxygen to its tissues.

Standard adjustment of a standing martingale allows enough slack to bring the strap to the horse's throatlatch when the animal has its head in a relaxed, natural position.

Although animal products & numbers of livestock are increasing, this isn't enough for local requirements for a growing population.

Over 1, 000 specimens have been identified, though less than half are complete enough to give researchers good information on the anatomy of the animal.

While most specimens are found crushed, enough fossils exist to put together a detailed description of the animal.

If Q. northropi is complete enough to be distinguished from other pterosaurs ( i. e., if it is not a nomen dubium ), Hatzegopteryx may represent the same animal.

differ enough that they cannot be regarded as the same animal, making it likely that Q.

He was known to greet citizens walking by his office on the White House tour by saying to them, " If you look on me as a wild animal, be kind enough to throw peanuts at me.

In 1891, Hayes broke a mature, intact mountain zebra stallion to ride in two days time, and the animal was quiet enough for his wife to ride and be photographed upon.

The jaw hinge is located far back enough to allow the animal to open its mouth at almost 180 °.

However, according to the Nordisk familjebok ( Nordic Familybook ) and science writer Willy Ley the animal may have survived long enough to be remembered in the legends of the Evenk people of Russia as a huge black bull with a single horn in the forehead.

Hay is fed when or where there is not enough pasture or rangeland on which to graze an animal, when grazing is unavailable due to weather ( such as during the winter ) or when lush pasture by itself is too rich for the health of the animal.

Biodegradable matter is generally organic material such as plant and animal matter and other substances originating from living organisms, or artificial materials that are similar enough to plant and animal matter to be put to use by microorganisms.

This then allows rain or animal movement to hit the spore sac so that it will puff out spores when there is enough moisture for them to germinate.

The name is also applied to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells large enough for the animal to retract into.

Although full of private gardens and amply supplied with water carried to public fountains in aqueducts, the streets remained unpaved and just wide enough for a loaded pack animal.

Newkirk and Pacheco are seen as the leading exporters of animal rights to the more traditional animal protection groups in the United States, but sections of the movement nevertheless say PETA is not radical enough — law professor Gary Francione calls them the new welfarists, arguing that their work with industries to achieve reform makes them an animal welfare, not an animal rights, group.

" It's hard enough trying to get people to take animal rights seriously without PETA out there acting like a bunch of jerks ," one activist told writer Norm Phelps.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

I always felt the memory was present in both of them, stirring in their chests like a laugh or a growl, as eager as an animal to be out.

This may be incorporated in complete feeds at the level of 0.4 milligram of diethylstilbestrol per pound of ration -- assuming animal consumes about 25 pounds daily.

This must be due to a completely identical response to the weather, in the plant and the animal.

Also, for the present, great caution should be exercised in the choice of an experimental animal for pulmonary studies if they are to be applied to man.

Any animal could when travelin' fast, be sent heels over head by the simple process of overtakin' the brute, seizin' its tail, and givin' the latter a pull to one side.

Such an animal was said to be `` mealynosed ''.

Mrs. Knauer said she did not think dog owners should be penalized for the city's services to animal care.

The presence of a particular species in an area may be more easily discerned by its characteristic call than by a fleeting glimpse of the animal itself.

These regions are presented to the attacking animal and their secretions may be foul-tasting or cause various physical or neurological symptoms.

During the time the redeemed are in heaven, the Earth will be devoid of human and animal inhabitation.

For example, where a person has committed harmful actions of body, speech and mind based on greed, hatred and delusion, rebirth in a lower realm, i. e. an animal, a ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected.

In South Africa all persons harvesting this animal need permits that are issued on a yearly basis, and no abalone may be harvested using scuba gear.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population

Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may be one or more of: matter which the animal cannot digest, such as bones ; food material after all the nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin ; ingested matter which would be toxic if it remained in the digestive tract ; and dead or excess gut bacteria and other endosymbionts.

In particular, it is pointed out that he who deliberately kills an animal will on his part be eaten by an animal in a future existence due to karmic retribution.