Sentence examples for profitable animals from inspiring English sources

In the first French encyclopedias, which related the customs and representations of their time, pigeons were described as extremely profitable animals, and a special emphasis was placed on their value through the listing of their numerous uses and different breeds (Corneille 1694; Diderot and D'Alembert 1751; Lunel 1858).

But the new News Corp. the print one will be a very different, and much less profitable, animal.

But the new News Corp. — the print one — will be a very different, and much less profitable, animal.

The campaign group Animal Aid condemns the rat cull for favouring a profitable animal (the tourist-magnet puffin) over a less cute beast.

Last week the company announced it was selling its infant nutrition business to Nestlé for $11.85 billion, and it is expected to divest its profitable animal health business by next year.

We calculated the N-SSB for this type of a reconnected livestock and cropping system and found a value very close to the specialized organic cash crop system with full utilization of fodder production, leading to profitable animal production, essentially as milk in this farm design.

Many cattle producers are selling off less-profitable animals with the hopes of holding onto part of their herd.

"It can be very profitable, raising animals," Munkhzorig told me when he asked if I wanted to see the pride of his herd: two bucks that had won prizes for the fineness of their cashmere and which he was using for breeding.

Although these studies suggest that it might be profitable for animals to form pair bonds with mates that perform a foraging specialization different than their own, no one has ever tested whether female mate choice can be affected by males' foraging specializations.

For some time it has been profitable to smuggle animals south across the border and convert them miraculously into "Irish meat".

By far the most profitable of these animals, from the point of view of our local farming economy, are the horses, which bring people who earn real money into the countryside, and encourage them to turn that money into grass.