Sentence examples for pushed animals from inspiring English sources

In our principal territory, the city, we have carefully pushed animals away, so that on a regular day, aside from two species of domesticated and infantilised mammals, the cat and the dog, the average homo sapiens is likely to encounter nothing more wild or varied than a few squirrels and pigeons.

Some Afghan officials agree that illegal hunting has pushed animals like the brown and black bear, Asiatic cheetah, lynx, ibex, Siberian crane and Houbara bustard onto the list of at-risk species in Afghanistan.

The conviction of the football star Michael Vick in a dogfighting operation in 2007 has pushed animal cruelty cases to the fore.

He thinks the severity of Snowball Earth may have pushed animal cells to abandon this flexibility, and specialise.

To truly tackle bTB and other diseases like mastitis, we need to detensify cattle farming and stop pushing animals to the very limit.

And when Mr Healy plotted his accumulated CFF data against both size and metabolic rate (which are not, it must be admitted, independent variables, as small animals tend to have higher metabolic rates than large ones), he found exactly the correlations he had predicted.The upshot is that his hypothesis that evolution pushes animals to see the world in the slowest motion possible looks correct.

We did not aim to push animals to their physiological limits as is often done when testing thermogenic capacity of mammals; rather, our data have important implication for day-to-day (routine) energy expenditure.

The ordinance is only the latest in an ever-growing list of eye-popping, often symbolic measures that legislators here have passed in hopes of pushing animal rights and other causes onto the national stage.

The immense size of sauropods - the long-necked, tree-trunk-legged storybook giants of the Jurassic period - presents a quandary for biologists because they push animal bones and muscles to their limit.

It is logical to speculate that channel regulators (e.g. calcium, chloride, potassium, sodium and other ions) mainly function to drive the separation of three kingdoms of eukaryotic life, continue to push animal evolution, but appear to be less diversified for the continuation of the other two kingdoms.

When gently pushed, the animals appear to walk across the gallery.