Sentence examples for fellow mammals from inspiring English sources

The earth's most massive creatures, they nevertheless spend the bulk of their lives off in their own element, beyond our ken, about as close as fellow mammals can get to being extraterrestrials.

And part of it is, I think, that we have some natural sympathy and regard for fellow mammals like cattle or hogs, but we dismiss birds as lower animals less deserving of our moral concern.

For, in their reproductive behaviour, people share something with fish that they do not have in common with many of their fellow mammals: men often invest heavily in their children.But science, being what it is, sometimes has to confirm formally what may seem common sense to the rest of humanity that the good-looking guys and the good-looking girls tend to pair off.

There are four main ways that we humans (and all our fellow mammals) learn to act when we're scared.

If you were sacrificed for the greater good of your fellow mammals, wouldn't you want to be totally adored?

And so, one would think and hope and fervently pray that this impending "collateral" slaughter of our deeply intelligent, deeply "feeling-full" fellow mammals has been green-lighted in the name of an overwhelming, do-or-die level of necessity.

A FELLOW MAMMAL breaking the boundary of its domain for a long look at you is beguiling in and of itself.

The mouse, though a fellow mammal, last shared a common ancestor with people 100 million years ago, time in which many more genetic differences might have been expected to develop.

Traditionally, it has been believed that vocal performance by apes has been limited to spontaneous noise expressed, for instance, at shock of seeing a predator or to intimidate a fellow mammal in a fight.

Nobody could ever ethically run that sort of controlled experiment with humans, but Kempermann's study provides convincing evidence that — in a fellow mammal with which we share a basic brain organization — neither genetic identity nor a shared environment is enough to guarantee a common fate.

So it's no wonder that conservationists have enlisted the dolphins' help to save fellow aquatic mammals.