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.

These heterodox groups held widely divergent opinions but were united by a critical attitude towards the established religion whose explanations they found unsatisfactory and whose animal sacrifices increasingly distasteful and irrelevant.

Nearly all plant and animal materials have both carbon and nitrogen, but amounts vary widely, with characteristics noted above ( dry / wet, brown / green ).

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

Haggis is widely available in supermarkets in Scotland all year round, with cheaper brands normally packed in artificial casings, rather than stomachs, just as cheaper brands of sausages are no longer stuffed into animal intestines.

Although human infanticide has been widely studied, the practice has been observed in many other species of the animal kingdom since it was first seriously studied by Yukimaru Sugiyama.

The llama ( Lama glama ) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since pre-Hispanic times.

However, this hypothesis is not widely accepted due to lack of evidence for any other animal decline or extinction, even in environmentally sensitive species.

While he became notorious for his " mumbling " diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.

Highly distinctive, the male lion is easily recognised by its mane, and its face is one of the most widely recognised animal symbols in human culture.

Whether because it was an emblem of the Incarnation or of the fearsome animal passions of raw nature, the unicorn was not widely used in early heraldry, but became popular from the 15th century.

Bentham is widely regarded as one of the earliest proponents of animal rights, and has even been hailed as " the first patron saint of animal rights ".

Newton's third law of motion is widely used in the study of animal locomotion: if at rest, to move forwards an animal must push something backwards.

Sensitivities vary widely from one person ( or other animal ) to another.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic acid widely distributed in animal tissues.

This assertion was widely accepted, until Boisserie asserted in 2005 that the pygmy hippopotamus was not a member of Hexaprotodon, after a thorough examination of the phylogeny of Hippopotamidae ; he suggested instead that the pygmy hippopotamus was a distinct genus, and returned the animal to Choeropsis.

This is a perennial herb which is native to Eurasia, but it is widely cultivated worldwide as an animal forage and fodder.

Organic acids ( C < sub > 1 </ sub >– C < sub > 7 </ sub >) are widely distributed in nature as normal constituents of plants or animal tissues.

The hibernation of this lemur is strongly dependent on the thermal behavior of its tree hole: if the hole is poorly insulated, the lemur's body temperature fluctuates widely, passively following the ambient temperature ; if well insulated, the body temperature stays fairly constant and the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal.

Although the human soul was sometimes symbolically or literally depicted in ancient cultures as a bird or other animal, it was widely held that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body in every feature, even down to clothing the person wore.

At the time Cuvier presented his 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants, it was still widely believed that no species of animal had ever become extinct.

The C. glutamicum species is widely used for producing glutamate and lysine, components of human food, animal feed, and pharmaceutical products.

For specialized types of displays, such as large three-dimensional units reproducing a product, package, human or animal figures, etc., reinforced plastics and rotationally molded vinyl plastisols are other materials frequently used.

An animal with distinct coloration, or other marks easily distinguished and remembered by the owner and his riders, was sometimes used as a `` marker ''.

Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis ( EAE ) is an animal model of CNS inflammation and demyelination frequently used to investigate potential MS treatments.

The extracts are generally no longer used to reduce or inhibit tumor growth, for which verifiable results have been found in vitro and in animal studies but not in humans, but instead to improve the patients ' quality of life and to reduce tumor-induced symptoms and the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Caustic potash was traditionally used in conjunction with animal fats to produce soft soaps, one of the caustic processes that rendered soaps from fats in the process of saponification, known since antiquity.

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.

Beadwork in Europe has a history dating back millennia, to when shells and animal bones were used as beads in necklaces.

A carcase is the body of a slaughtered animal, after the removal of offal, that is to be used as meat.

This has been used in agriculture to improve crops and farm animals ( animal breeding ).

Balls used in various sports in other parts of the world prior to Columbus were made from other materials such as animal bladders or skins, stuffed with various materials.

Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.

Ground bones are used an organic phosphorus-nitrogen fertilizer and as additive in animal feed.

As antiseptics ( i. e., germicide agents that can be used on human or animal body, skin, mucoses, wounds and the like ), few of the above mentioned disinfectants can be used, under proper conditions ( mainly concentration, pH, temperature and toxicity toward humans and animals ).

It consists of thick leather, boiled in water ( some sources hold that oil and wax were used as well ; others posit the use of ammonia from fermented animal urine ).

Bean () is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae ( alternately Leguminosae ) some of which are used for human food or animal feed.

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species ' names is L. In 1959, Carl Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens, which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.

* Calcium phosphate ( Ca < sub > 3 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub >) is used as a supplement for animal feed, fertilizer, in commercial production for dough and yeast products, in the manufacture of glass, and in dental products.

Pogo used animals to particularly devastating effect, caricaturing many prominent politicians of the day as animal denizens of Pogo's Okeefenokee Swamp.

The Thornthwaite system, in use since 1948, incorporates evapotranspiration along with temperature and precipitation information and is used in studying animal species diversity and potential effects of climate changes.

In these mountain cave settlements, people lived who used tools, mastered fire, and used animal skin for warmth and other purposes.