Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

The intranasal instillation of a fluid suspension of infectious agent in an anesthetized animal is far different from exposure, through natural respiration, to aerosolized organisms.

There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.

We can escape from such a difficulty by ruling out the animal as not constituting a trial, but such a solution is not always satisfactory.

The result is that I included 70 animal names, but Swadesh only 4 ; ;

The attempt failed: the animal is now dead.

All living creatures from the lowest form of insect or animal life evidence the power of creativity, if it is only to reproduce a form like their own.

While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

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.

There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;

Man is at once a gregarious animal and a form-creating being.

Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom ( A is for alligator, B is for butterfly, etc.

An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, both features not found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

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.

`` You bring only wickedness '', she said and it was not to a child any longer but to another woman who had come to skirt her lodge with the cunning hunger of a wild animal.

The Chinese zodiac of twelve animal signs is said to represent twelve different types of personality.

At the same time, some settlers observed " all natives throughout these ... districts have a tradition ( of ) a very large animal having at one time existed in the large creeks and rivers and by many it is said that such animals now exist.

He said that an organism is conscious " if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism — something it is like for the organism "; and he argued that no matter how much we know about an animal's brain and behavior, we can never really put ourselves into the mind of the animal and experience its world in the way it does itself.

Mesmer said that while Gassner was sincere in his beliefs, his cures were because he possessed a high degree of animal magnetism.

The Greeks said it is rationality ; thus, Aristotle said, A human being is a rational animal.

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

People with indigo auras are said to be in occupations such as computer analyst, animal caretaker, and counselor.

" Rabbi Huna said in the name of Rabbi Joseph, ' The generation of the Flood was not wiped out until they wrote marriage documents for the union of a man to a male or to an animal.

In West Africa this relation is said to be entered into by means of the blood bond, and it is so close that the death of the animal causes the man to die and vice versa.

Canoes coming near it are said to be doomed ; the animal is said to attack the vessels at once and to kill the crews but without eating the bodies.

At the Ssombo River I was shown a path said to have been made by this animal in order to get at its food.

Samuel is told to seek out Saul, an animal herder said to be a head taller than his peers, and anoint him as the first King of Israel.

" If people are voting tigers as their favourite animal, it means they recognise their importance, and hopefully the need to ensure their survival ," he said.

In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract the most humor and silliness ; he said, " If you're going to tell a joke involving an animal, make it a duck.

Joan Roughgarden argues that in some non-human animal species, there can also be said to be more than two genders, in that there might be multiple templates for behavior available to individual organisms with a given biological sex.

Powell wrote an article for The Times on 29 June, in which he said: " The Falklands have brought to he surface of the British mind our latent perception of ourselves as a sea animal .... No assault on a landward possession would have evoked the same automatic defiance, tinged with a touch of that self sufficiency which belongs to all nations ".

In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Smith said that she never pressed Washington for marriage because she knew Washington's first love was politics, saying, " He was a political animal.

The legend said that some attractive animal might appear in the forest, and they ate some people.

For example, a spokesman of the Dr Hadwen Trust, a group funding alternatives to animal research in medicine, has said that the experiments are an " appalling example of how the human species instrumentalizes other species.

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.

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.