Personal armour is used to protect soldiers, and war animals such as war horses ( the application for the latter called barding ).

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.

A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.

The former, which is the second-largest animal phylum by number of described species, includes animals such as snails, clams, and squids, and the latter comprises the segmented worms, such as earthworms and leeches.

The latter occurs not only in plants but also in animals when the energy from plants gets passed through a food chain.

Not until the beginning of the 19th century did it become clear that reptiles and amphibians are in fact quite different animals, and Pierre André Latreille erected the class Batracia ( 1825 ) for the latter, dividing the tetrapods into the four familiar classes of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.

Frey, a leading animal rights critic, who wrote in 1983 that, if forced to choose between abandoning experiments on animals and allowing experiments on " marginal-case " humans, he would choose the latter, " not because I begin a monster and end up choosing the monstrous, but because I cannot think of anything at all compelling that cedes all human life of any quality greater value than animal life of any quality.

A zoonosis () is any infectious disease that can be transmitted between species ( in some instances, by a vector ) from animals to humans or from humans to animals ( the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis or anthroponosis ).

In addition to temnospondyl and anthracosaur clades among the early " amphibia " ( labyrinthodonts ), there were two important divergent clades of amniotes, the Sauropsida and the Synapsida, of which the latter were the most important and successful Permian animals.

Flesh-flies, being viviparous, frequently give birth to live young on corpses of human and other animals, at any stage of decomposition, from newly dead through to bloated or decaying ( though the latter is more common ).

There are two grammatical genders, usually called human and non-human ( the first includes gods and the word for " statue " in some instances, but not plants or animals, the latter also includes collective plural nouns ), whose assignment is semantically predictable.

A differing opinion said that the ark itself distinguished clean animals from unclean, admitting seven pairs each of the former and one pair each of the latter.

Eagles in Mindanao often find success using the latter method while hunting flying lemurs, since they are nocturnal animals who try use camoflauge to protect them by day.

Kalbarri has many birds and animals, the latter mainly nocturnal mammals.

The latter includes less regulation for building certain structures and the ability to keep animals.

Wildlife is a term that traditionally refers to non-domesticated vertebrates, but has come into more general usage to refer to all wild plants, animals and other organisms ( the latter, more general definition is used in this article ).

They inhabit tropical forests of Southeast Asia and South and Central America, and include the largest surviving land animals of the latter two regions.

Regan still sees ethical differences between killing human and non-human animals, and argues that to save the former it is permissible to kill the latter.

The latter is advocated by Grandy ( 1973 ) and Stich ( 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984 ), who maintain that attributions of intentional idioms to any physical system ( e. g. humans, artifacts, non-human animals, etc.

The hunting grounds are typically within 450 metres ( 1, 500 ft ) of the nest, with a preference for open ground or water, the latter especially in poor weather, but the martins will also follow the plough or large animals to catch disturbed insects.

Thus Salar de Uyuni can be loosely translated as a salt flat with enclosures, the latter possibly referring to the " islands " of the Salar ; or as " salt flat at town named ' pen for animals '".

The therapsids, a more advanced group of synapsids, appeared during the first half of the Permian and went on to become the largest terrestrial animals during the latter half.

The wingspan can from, with the latter measurement the largest recorded among extant flying animals outside of the great albatrosses.

In most animals, they are generally therefore proportionally larger than in humans or great apes, because of the shortened faces of the latter.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

The latter are either too stupid to catch the killer or too corrupt to care.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

The latter theorem has been generalized by Yamabe and Yujobo, and Cairns to show that in Af there are families of such cubes.

Particularly hard for the therapist to grasp are those instances in which the patient is manifesting an introject traceable to something in the therapist, some aspect of the therapist of which the latter is himself only poorly aware, and the recognition of which, as a part of himself, he finds distinctly unwelcome.

Can we help children adjust to `` images of other children '' when the latter are not actually present.

This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.

He had two productive periods, one in the late 1860's, the other in the decade from 1910 to 1920 ( half of the dated poems are from the latter period, and these alone total about one-tenth of all Hardy's poems ).

The latter two are half-brothers.

On the day's schedule are a flower show, 4-H horsemanship contest and clown shows, the latter at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m..

and the latter is the total sum of all the numbers in the square, by which all the other numbers are overshadowed and in which they may be said to be absorbed.

There are some sharp and whipping lines and some hilariously funny situations -- the best of the latter being a mass impromptu plunge into a nightclub tank where a `` mermaid '' is performing.

The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.

Some of the latter are studied in non-standard analysis.

Aspect ratios are mathematically expressed as x: y ( pronounced " x-to-y ") and x × y ( pronounced " x-by-y "), with the latter particularly used for pixel dimensions, such as 640 × 480.

Examples of algebraic integers are,, and ( Note, therefore, that the algebraic integers constitute a proper superset of the integers, as the latter are the roots of monic polynomials for all

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

The latter is seen in many processes in which both a particle and its antiparticle are created simultaneously, as in particle accelerators.

There are a number of golf courses in Acapulco including the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marqués course, the latter designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1972 for the World Cup Golf Tournament.

The former, he tells the reader, are proved by demonstration, while the latter are given through experience.

The fact that the allomorph does not appear after stem-final, despite the fact that the latter is voiceless, is then explained by the fact that appears in that environment, together with the fact that the environments are ordered.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).