Most households, irrespective of their welfare status, depended on three major sources of income: sale of livestock (live animals), sale of livestock products and sale of charcoal/firewood.
Already, in 2008, paintings made by red pandas, frogs, Komodo dragons, kangaroos, ocelots, rhinos, and giraffes were being peddled by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, in their vast "Art by Animals" sale, conducted by the Auction Network.
En route to the final stop, an undercover investigation of illegal exotic animal sales, the men got lost on Northern Boulevard.
Accusations of cultural insensitivity often arise when states try to enforce laws on live-animal sales, making officials reluctant to clamp down on violators, said Patrick Kwan, the New York state director of the Humane Society of the United States.
Market shocks can occur due to drought, market quarantines on animal sales, global price changes, or other factors.
Yeah, yeah, they're largely there to be cute and print money in the form of stuffed animal sales, but they earn every bit of screentime they get.
We used grounded theory to analyze the interview data about herders' conceptual models of diseases and fertility (Charmaz 2006), which meant that interviews were transcribed, read line by line, and coded for themes related to diseases, fertility, animal sales, and chronically sick animals.
In times of drought and food shortage, increased off-take is obligatory to meet the household's demand for food for two reasons: (1) grain is the most important source of food in domestic economy; and (2) animal sales realize some economic return from drought-caused livestock losses that might generate no cash flow whatsoever.
That means the huge business of animal sales for sacrifice!
Our researchers spent three months poring over online classified ads from four different websites that allow exotic animal sales.
Factor 1, "animal husbandry risk" (10% of variance), included items attributing avian influenza to market practices, live animal sales, and poor home and market hygiene.
