[permalink] [id link]
Like humans, but unlike most other mammals, guinea pigs cannot synthesize their own vitamin C and must obtain this vital nutrient from food.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Like and humans
Like humans engaging in sex primarily for pleasure, this behavior in the above mentioned animals is also presumed to be for pleasure, and a contributing factor to strengthening their social bonds.
Like most rat vocalizations, the chirping is too high in pitch for humans to hear without special equipment.
Like all pythons, they are nonvenomous constrictors and normally not considered dangerous to humans.
Like René Descartes, Malebranche held that humans attain knowledge through ideas – immaterial representations present to the mind.
Like angels, humans were spiritual beings, but unlike angels, human souls were " knotted " to a physical body.
Like contemporary Terry Southern, Meyer realized that sex — as one of the few common interests among most humans — was a natural vehicle for satirizing values and conventions held by the Greatest Generation.
Like other corvids, such as Ravens and Crows, their total brain to body ratio is equal to that of great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than in humans.
Like all pelicans, Brown Pelicans are highly sensitive to disturbances by humans ( often tourists or fishermen ) at their nest and may abandon their nest if stressed as such.
Like many other ideas in Tolkien's mythos, the notion of half-elves is borrowed from Norse mythology, in which elves occasionally had children with humans.
Like most North American viperids, these snakes prefer to avoid humans and, given the opportunity, will leave the area without biting.
Like epidemiology, economics often studies the behavior of humans over periods too long to allow completely controlled experiments, in which case economists can use observational studies or quasi-experiments ; in these studies, economists collect data which are then analyzed with statistical methods ( econometrics ).
Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the protection of Zion and the freeing of humans from the Matrix.
Like all Whitelighters before her, Paige can only use her healing powers on humans and not animals or demons.
Like Death or experienced witches, Susan can make herself completely unnoticeable to humans if she so chooses, though some people, such as Albert or Mustrum Ridcully, who are used to such things, are still able to see her if they concentrate and she is not actively trying to avoid their specific notice.
Like all male damsel fish, the male Garibaldi will boldly attack much larger swimming creatures, including humans, to the point of biting divers in order to try to drive them away from the area where the eggs are deposited.
Like many other species of birds the Cyanoramphus parakeets have suffered from changes brought about by humans.
Like reduplicative babbling in humans, the call type is often repeated several times before a new sequence of sounds is produced.
Like and unlike
Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.
Like single covalent bonds, double bonds can be described in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals, except that, unlike a single bond ( which consists of a single sigma bond ), a carbon-carbon double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond.
Like other benzodiazepines, it possesses anxiolytic properties, but, unlike other benzodiazepines, it does not have anticonvulsant, sedative, skeletal muscle relaxant, motor skill-impairing, or amnestic properties.
Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".
Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.
Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.
Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.
Like Mark ( but unlike Matthew ), the intended audience is the Greek-speaking populations of the region ; it assures readers that Christianity is an international religion, not an exclusively Jewish sect.
Like the British New Left, they recognized problems in the communism of the Soviet Union, but unlike the British New Left, they did not turn to Trotskyism or social democracy.
Like most 32-bit environments, OS / 2 could not run protected-mode DOS programs using the older VCPI interface, unlike the Standard mode of Windows 3. 1 ; it only supported programs written according to DPMI.
Like all social sciences, political science faces the difficulty of observing human actors that can only be partially observed and who have the capacity for making conscious choices unlike other subjects such as non-human organisms in biology or inanimate objects as in physics.
Like classical music, and unlike jazz, classical ragtime was and is primarily a written tradition, being distributed in sheet music rather than through recordings or by imitation of live performances.
Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.
Like centaurs, TNOs display a wide range of colours from blue-grey to very red, but unlike the centaurs, clearly re-grouped into two classes, the distribution appears to be uniform.
Like Western Lent, Great Lent itself lasts for forty days, but unlike the West, Sundays are included in the count.
Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.
Like several other nuclear powers, but unlike China, India and North Korea, the United States has never made a no first use pledge, maintaining that pledging not to use nuclear weapons before an opponent would undermine their deterrent.
Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more of a system of tribute than a single system of government.
Like PostScript, NeWS could be used as a complete programming language, but unlike PostScript, NeWS could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI.
Like most formats of videocassette, a DAT cassette may only be recorded and played in one direction, unlike an analog compact audio cassette.
Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patronage, by its deceptive nature and often great financial resources, an unholy alliance can be much more dangerous to the public interest.
Like folk metal bands, Viking metal acts " generally utilize some acoustic and other unusual instruments in addition to the traditional metal instruments ", but, unlike folk metal, Viking metal " typically avoids non-standard instruments ".
0.664 seconds.