That these long-lived, charismatic animals command attention at the surface gives him hope.
But Ford believes, there are still places where animals command mythic status.
This gentle, kindly naturalist, who could talk to nonhuman animals and commanded godlike powers through their devotion to him, is nowadays unfashionable — and even banned from libraries — because of suspected racism.
There is an unforgettable scene at Stonehenge, in which a credulous animal crowd, commanded by a well-named murder of crows, gather to make a sacrifice to ensure the continued rising of the sun.
Some compounds of interest, like the human blood protein erythropoietin, which has not yet been produced by a pharm animal, command prices of more than $15 million an ounce.
"Look at the camera!" veteran animal trainer Steve Martin commanded.
The cow is, of course, the animal the Lord commanded us to eat with great joy and gratitude.
Sensory neuron input alters this balance by depolarizing one command neuron type; in undisturbed animals, forward command neurons dominate, and worms crawl mostly forward, interrupted by brief backward episodes (∼2 4 times min−1; [21]).
The philosopher Daniel C. Dennett suggests that we would do well to draw a distinction between pain, which a great many animals experience, and suffering, which depends on a degree of self-consciousness only a few animals appear to command.
He explained that there was no simple answer to ending the illegal hunting of threatened wild animals, especially when the species commanded a high value.
