She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.

It is like medical schools in India where, in that fairy-land of religious inhibition, the dissection of dead bodies is frowned upon.

`` What could I do with your lousy dead bodies??

Pausanias failed to fight for the bodies of the dead, and because he retrieved the bodies under truce ( a sign of defeat ), he was disgraced and banished from Sparta.

The Annales Fuldenses report that the bodies of dead Northmen blocked the run of the river.

By the end of 1346, reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe: " India was depopulated, Tartary, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia were covered with dead bodies ".

" Further, many had not survived their punishment, Wylde writing how the neighborhood of Adwa " was full of their freshly dead bodies ; they had generally crawled to the banks of the streams to quench their thirst, where many of them lingered unattended and exposed to the elements until death put an end to their sufferings.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

A famous example is the ill-fated Westward expedition of the Donner Party, and more recently the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, after which some survivors ate the bodies of dead passengers.

Consumption of a person from within the same community is called endocannibalism ; ritual cannibalism of the recently deceased can be part of the grieving process, or a way of guiding the souls of the dead into the bodies of living descendants.

Joseph Jordania has theorised that removing dead bodies through ritual cannibalism might been a means of predator control, aiming to eliminate predators ' and scavengers ' access to hominid ( and human ) bodies.

Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.

from ) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.

Brutus sits on the left, alone, brooding, seemingly dismissing the dead bodies of his sons.

Nebuchadnezzar, who had made a drinking-cup from the skull of a murdered Jew, was greatly astonished when, at the moment that the three men were cast into the furnace, the bodies of the dead boys moved, and, striking him in the face, cried out: " The companion of these three men revives the dead!

For example, some invertebrates are attracted to dead bodies.

In Rabbinic Judaism, Kohanim, members of the hereditary caste that served as priests in the time of the Temple, are mostly restricted from entering grave sites and touching dead bodies.

Terry Jones once mentioned that the only reason this excerpt was not cut too was due to continuity reasons, as their dead bodies were very prominently placed throughout the rest of the scene.

In any case, the sanctuary has been polluted by the bodies of the two dead priests, leading into the next theme, holiness.

According to Marino, other disadvantages are the possibility of disruption when filming in an open multi-user environment and the temptation for puppeteers to play the game in earnest, littering the set with blood and dead bodies.

Spirits od the dead from various planets were taken to Mars and given new bodies to work.

German entomologist Fritz Zumpt describes myiasis as " the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae, which at least for a period, feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances, or ingested food ".

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It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.

Newly shed leaves and newly dead animals have high concentrations of water-soluble components, and include sugars, amino acids and mineral nutrients.

Newly dead animals may be covered by an exoskeleton.

Consequently, dead animals decompose more rapidly than dead leaves, which themselves decompose more rapidly than fallen branches.

Modern humans started burying their dead, using animal hides to make clothing, hunting with more sophisticated techniques ( such as using trapping pits or driving animals off cliffs ), and engaging in cave painting.

Because of this restriction, Galen performed anatomical dissections on living ( vivisection ) and dead animals, mostly focusing on pigs and primates.

He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.

As Roel Sterckx observes, " The use of dog sacrifices at the gates and doors of the living and the dead as well as its use in travel sacrifices suggest that dogs were perceived as daemonic animals operating in the liminal or transitory realm between the domestic and the unknown, danger-stricken outside world ".

Ivory can be taken from dead animals — Russians dug up tusks from extinct mammoths — however most ivory came from elephants who were killed for their tusks.

He biked around his neighborhood looking for dead animals, which he dissected at home ( or in the woods near his home ).

** Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy

Mathematical modelling in this way does not necessarily require formal mathematics ; animals have been shown to use dead reckoning.

The closed ecology of a space station is satirized in Ethan of Athos, with the emphasis on preventing microbial contamination, the air supply dependent on algae and newts, the processing of dead or contraband animals ( and one dead human ) into vat meat supplies, and the storage of garbage in the vacuum outside the station.

) As L. C. Croft has written, " Much of Gosse's success was due to the fact that he was essentially a field naturalist who was able to impart to his readers something of the thrill of studying living animals at first hand rather than the dead disjointed ones of the museum shelf.

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

* Swine, blood, the meat of already dead animals and animals slaughtered in the name of someone other than God.

A private zoo in Zanesville, Ohio owned 18 Bengal tigers, all of which were shot dead by Ohio authorities after their owner released them, along with many other dangerous animals, before committing suicide on October 18, 2011.

Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.