About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

He examined the water marks on the iron tires when the animals were finished.

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

It lasted a number of days, and a host of exotic animals were killed, including elephants, giraffes, tigers, rhinoceroses, crocodiles and hippopotami.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

" For clothing, they prohibited leather because animals were killed for it, as well as cotton, silk, and wool, because they were products of slave labor.

He believed that animals were able to infer the relation between cause and effect in the same way that humans do: through learned expectations.

However, it has been shown that some animals, like chimpanzees, were able to generate creative plans of action to achieve their goals, and thus would seem to have a causal insight which transcends mere custom.

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

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

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.

The larger muscles of the animals were roasted and served with currant sauce, while the other smaller portions went into soups, stews, sausages, pies, and pasties.

The other main lines were the Ascetosporea, the Myxozoa ( now known to be derived from animals ), and the Microsporidia ( now known to be derived from fungi ).

Other times the carvings were created to depict commonly seen animals, such as: seals, whales, and even humans.

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

There were three main kinds of harpoon that the Aleut ’ s used: a simple harpoon, with a head that kept its original position in the animal after striking, a compound ( toggle-head ) harpoon in which the head took a horizontal position in the animal after penetration, and the throwing-lance used to kill large animals.

These animals were, in fact, descendants of the small ancestral ungulates that retained all the primitive characteristics of the latter, accompanied by a huge increase in body size.

Another group of animals discovered subsequently, whose filtering mechanism looked similar, was also included in " Bryozoa " until 1869, when the two groups were noted to be very different internally.

Canal barges, towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath, contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution, but were outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail.

Canal barges, towed by draft animals on a waterway adjacent towpath were of fundamental importance in the early industrial revolution, whose major early engineering projects were efforts to build viaducts, aqueducts and especially canal to fuel and feed the raw materials to the nascent factories being born in the early industrial takeoff, and take their goods to the ports and cities for distribution.

Historically, all living things were grouped as either animals or plants, and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered to be animals.

Prior to the first half of the century, most heavy work was executed by draft animals or human muscle power.

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.

Snyders initially devoted himself to painting flowers, fruit and subjects of still life, but later turned to painting animals, and executed with the greatest skill and spirit hunting pieces and combats of wild animals.

A 1978 study at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover indicates that these traditional methods, when executed as prescribed by the religious authorities, gave comparable results as animals stunned with a captive bolt pistol.

Although the animation of Gwangi was well executed ( although somewhat repetitive ), that of the other prehistoric animals shown in the film was less well done.

There are several examples known from medieval Europe of people and animals executed for committing bestiality.

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age ( 3000-1900 BC ) who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.

He executed sketches and watercolors of Indians and animals in north-central Canada and the midwestern United States, including the Chippewa and Metis people living along the Red River Trails.

Carnivora have a simple stomach designed to digest primarily meat, as compared to the elaborate digestive systems of herbivorous animals, which are necessary to break down tough, complex plant fibers.

Although forests are classified primarily by trees, the concept of a forest ecosystem includes additional species ( such as smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals ) as well as physical and chemical processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.

Hyenas are primarily nocturnal animals, but may venture from their lairs in the early morning hours.

* Butcher's Knife: A knife designed and used primarily for the butchering and / or dressing of animals.

These are primarily triglyceride esters derived from plants and animals.

They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time.

Wolf packs primarily target calves and elderly animals, but can and will take healthy, adult moose.

* Neurotoxins primarily affect the nervous systems of animals.

It is likely that, as in other polygynous animals ( in which males compete for association with harems of females ), Pteranodon lived primarily on offshore rookeries, where they could nest away from land-based predators and feed far from shore ; most Pteranodon fossils are found in locations which at the time, were hundreds of kilometres from the coastline.

In the wild, they are foraging animals, primarily eating leaves, grasses, roots, fruits and flowers.

Sirenians have been observed eating dead animals ( sea gulls ), but their diet is made up primarily of vegetation.

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.

Nonetheless, it was Wilson's book that pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturence, primarily in ants ( Wilson's own research specialty ) but also in other animals ( bees, wasps and termites ).

Animals taken are primarily wild boar and deer, although trophy animals such as cats and big game as large as a Cape Buffalo are hunted with spears.

The Bununs, who are primarily hunters of wild animals, would dine on stone-grilled pork, boar, deer, and hog roast.

It feeds primarily on large ungulates, though it will also eat smaller animals, livestock, carrion, and garbage.

Like many microscopic animals, their locomotion is primarily powered by hydrostatics.

Over the course of seven years, the vegetative cover receded, and the animals opportunistically shifted from primarily consuming tufted deer to pursuing bamboo rats and other smaller prey.

John Colter is widely considered the first mountain man and, like those that came to the Jackson Hole region over the next 30 years, he was there primarily for the profitable fur trapping ; the region was rich with the highly sought after pelts of beaver and other fur bearing animals.

Beefalo are primarily cattle in genetics and appearance, with the breed association defining a full beefalo as one with ( 37. 5 %) bison genetics, while animals with higher percentages of bison genetics are called " bison hybrids ".

Dioxins are absorbed primarily through dietary intake of fat, as this is where they accumulate in animals and humans.

Most adult carideans are benthic animals living primarily on the sea floor.

Breeding in domestic animals is assortative breeding primarily ( see selective breeding ).

** Animal nutrition – focuses on the dietary needs of domesticated animals, primarily those in agriculture and food production.