Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

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.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

Midges will then spread the disease from the calves to other animals, starting a new season of infection.

The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.

Since then, the cane toad has become a pest in many host countries, and poses a serious threat to native animals.

The burnt-out area is then repopulated with a greater proportion of fire-loving plant species ( notably eucalypts, some acacias, and most of the native grasses ) which are unsuitable habitat for most browsing animals.

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

In animals, the zygote divides repeatedly to form a ball of cells, which then forms a set of tissue layers that migrate and fold to form an early embryo.

These jaguar ancestors then moved south into Central and South America, feeding on the deer and other grazing animals that once covered the landscape in huge herds.

: Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with its former defense industries and test ranges are found throughout the country and pose health risks for humans and animals ; industrial pollution is severe in some cities ; because the two main rivers which flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms ; pollution in the Caspian Sea ; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices

It begins with a prohibition on all slaughter of animals outside the Temple, even for food, and then prohibits a long list of sexual contacts and also child sacrifice.

Sap filled the buckets, and was then either transferred to larger holding vessels ( barrels, large pots, or hollowed-out wooden logs ), often mounted on sledges or wagons pulled by draft animals, or carried in buckets or other convenient containers.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

A storyteller from a very young age, the first stories Margaret Mitchell wrote were about her animals, and then she progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

If human beings are rational animals of such-and-such a sort, then the moral virtues are ...( filling in the blanks is the difficult part ).

In the viviparous animals ( which include humans and all other placental mammals ), the ovum is fertilized inside the female body and the embryo then develops inside the uterus, receiving nutrition directly from the mother.

There is an intermediate form, the ovoviviparous animals: the embryo develops within and is nourished by an egg as in the oviparous case, but then it hatches inside the mother's body shortly before birth, or just after the egg leaves the mother's body.

Horses and tapirs both evolved in North America ; rhinoceroses appear to have developed in Asia from tapir-like animals and then recolonised the Americas during the middle Eocene ( about 45 Mya ).

Through the process of digestion, animals break down ingested protein into free amino acids that are then used in metabolism.

This starts with the virus mostly infecting animals, with a few cases where animals infect people, then moves through the stage where the virus begins to spread directly between people, and ends with a pandemic when infections from the new virus have spread worldwide.

If I cut him open, there wasn't metal, he was grown ... and then within twenty years you get the first bill not passed in the Senate where they applied for replication of animals, sheep and goats and cattle and animals and they turned it down, but if you can do that, then you can do human beings.

Locally, the relatives of the camel, the llama, and the alpaca continue to carry out important uses as pack animals, but this use has generally diminished in modern times.

2562 ) aimed at phasing out nontherapeutic use of antibacterials in US food animals were proposed, but have not passed.

There were some exceptions to the diet, such as local vegetation and animals, but the colonists attempted to use these items in the same fashion as they had their equivalents or ignore them if they could.

Each administrator on each sub-division of the estate drew up his own little accounts, for the day-to-day running of the estate, payment of the workforce, production of crops, the sale of produce, the use of animals, and general expenditure on the staff.

The use of birds was very meaningful to these people because birds were seen as defending animals in the spirit world.

For example ocean algae use bromine but land plants and animals seem to need none.

* Glycogen, on the other hand, is an animal carbohydrate ; humans and other animals use it as a form of energy storage.

Some animals, such as crustaceans and mollusks, use hemocyanin to carry oxygen, instead of hemoglobin.

Plants are the fundamental base of nearly all food chains because they use the energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil and atmosphere, converting them into a form that can be consumed and utilized by animals ; this is what ecologists call the first trophic level.

Biological warfare ( also known as germ warfare ) is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

Thus, in any use of biological weapons, it is highly likely that animals will become ill either simultaneously with, or perhaps earlier than humans.

For example, ocean algae use bromine but land plants and animals seem to need none, and all animals require sodium, but some plants do not.

" It is apparent that many animals can taste, or develop a taste, for calcium, and use this sense to detect the mineral in salt licks or other sources.

Through the use of magical potions and a wand she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.

Scuba divers use mail to protect them from sharkbite, as do animal control officers for protection against the animals they handle.

When hunting small animals such as mice, they slowly stalk through the grass, and use their acute sense of smell to track down the prey.

Tamias is Greek for " storer ," a reference to the animals ' habit of collecting and storing food for winter use.

To use an analogy, one could classify all animals into " fish " and " non-fish " but that classification would be hardly useful, and would imply that spiders are similar to mountain goats.

Swimming water animals such as fish and cetaceans actively use pectoral fins for maneuvering, and dorsal fins contribute stability as the animal swims, propelling and maneuvering with its tail, itself recognizable as a fin.

A master criminal, Fu Manchu's murderous plots are marked by the extensive use of arcane methods ; he disdains guns or explosives, preferring dacoits, Thuggee, and members of other secret societies as his agents armed with knives, or using " pythons and cobras ... fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli ... my black spiders " and other peculiar animals or natural chemical weapons.

They also use meat such as beef and pork to make different dishes or simply to for braising, but their main meat is goat, both from the kids and from the older animals.

Some deep-sea animals, such as the greeneye, use fluorescence.

The animals are accompanied by signs which suggest a possible magic use.

Tack is a piece of equipment or accessory equipped on horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.