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Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was simultaneously both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be retained and could not be put to much practical use, but cost a significant amount to maintain.
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Because there is a natural season to farming and herding, it is easy to count and determine if a surplus had been gained after the crops had been harvested or the young animals weaned.
Because the remit of the Convention covers millions of species of plants and animals, and tens of thousands of these taxa are potentially of economic value, in practice this negative list approach effectively forces CITES signatories to expend limited resources on just a select few, leaving many species to be traded with neither constraint nor review.
Because coyotes are not very effective at digging rodents out of their burrows, they will chase the animals while they are above ground.
Because it does not contain any cocoa solids, white chocolate does not contain any theobromine, meaning it can be consumed by animals.
Because of this restriction, Galen performed anatomical dissections on living ( vivisection ) and dead animals, mostly focusing on pigs and primates.
Because they are easy to breed in captivity, hamsters are often used as laboratory animals in more economically developed countries.
Because Malpighi had a wide knowledge of both plants and animals, he made contributions to the scientific study of both.
Because they do not have internal body cavities, for over a century, Platyhelminthes were regarded as a primitive stage in the evolution of bilaterians ( animals with bilateral symmetry and hence with distinct front and rear ends ).
Because the plants and animals of the sea floor are the basis of the food chain, damage to the shoreline has consequences for the whole shallow-water ecosystem, including the multi-million-dollar Saudi fisheries industry.
Because they were seen as a threat to livestock and animals that humans hunted for fur in Tasmania, devils were hunted and became endangered.
Because the park is located in an urban area, the park has a long history of major problems with feral and roaming animals.
Because larger horses are favored, animals with some draft horse breeding are also seen, notably the Irish Draught and Clydesdale crossbreds.
Because of its herbal knowledge and entheogenic association the snake was often considered one of the wisest animals, being ( close to the ) divine.
Because the amount of topsoil had been reduced, it would have been more productive to shift from crops and wheat to animals and hay.
" Because insects are cold-blooded animals, their rate of development is more or less dependent on ambient temperature.
Because guinea pigs are one of the few animals which, like humans, cannot synthesize vitamin C but must obtain it from their diet, they are ideal for researching scurvy.
Because guinea pigs require much less room than traditional livestock and reproduce extremely quickly, they are a more profitable source of food and income than many traditional stock animals, such as pigs and cows ; moreover, they can be raised in an urban environment.
Because the Sphynx cats have no pelt to keep them warm they huddle up against other animals and people.
Because the statues were of people and animals, the Mausoleum holds a special place in history, as it was not dedicated to the gods of Ancient Greece.
Because of this, Jones and his crew gradually become corrupted by the sea, changing in amalgamations of sea plants and animals.
Because retinal dopamine levels are controlled on a circadian pattern, intravitreal injection of L-dopa in animals that have lost dopamine and circadian rhythms has been shown to correct these patterns, especially in heart rate, temperature, and locomotor activity.
Because practitioners of powerful magic were normally born on certain days related to animals with a strong or harmful aspect they would often have specific tonals such as the jaguar or puma.
Because of the special geological characteristics of the Jasmund National Park, it is home to many rare plants and animals.
Because iron is a requirement for most plants and animals, a wide range of foods provide iron.
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Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.
Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.
Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.
Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.
Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.
Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children, Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due, no doubt, to carelessness, but still wicked ''.
Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might -- with daring hyperbole -- Parker vindicated Channing's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines.
Because of this centrist position, and despite their rejection of Arius, they were called " semi-Arians " by their opponents.
Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.
Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.
Because Aediles were not reimbursed for any of their public expenditures, most individuals who sought the office were independently wealthy.
Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.
According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!
Because the markets were already nervous due to the Asian financial crisis, investors began selling non-U. S. treasury debt and buying U. S. treasuries, which were considered a safe investment.
Because Bush's approval ratings were in the 80 % range during the Gulf War, he was described as unbeatable.
Because the pole pieces of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, and the leads were also reversed with respect to each other, the two coils, wired in series, produced a humbucking effect ( the same effect is achieved if the coils are wired in parallel ).
Because of this superstition, bongos were less harmed in their native ranges than expected.
Because of this property, the collapsed stars were called " frozen stars ," because an outside observer would see the surface of the star frozen in time at the instant where its collapse takes it inside the Schwarzschild radius.
Because Berlin was located within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and the other occupying powers had previously relied on Soviet good will for access to Berlin, the only available methods of supplying the city were three limited air corridors.
Because far less motion was involved than in a conventional dot matrix printer, these printers were very fast compared to dot matrix printers and were competitive in speed with formed-character line printers while also being able to print dot matrix graphics.
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