Sentence examples for standing alert from inspiring English sources

It was a scene of arrested confrontation: a pair of ostriches, their chicks at their feet, standing alert to face an approaching sounder of warthogs.

Animal behaviour was evaluated by applying direct coded focal observations (SA – standing alert, SC – standing calm, M – movement, EF – eating forage, DW – drinking water, V – vocalizing, SI – positive or negative social interactions, S – stereotypies, and O – others) for three time periods on non-work days, and during rest periods of the last patrol day for each experimental stage.

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Behavioral differences found between the positive and negative treatments (e.g., play and "tail wagging" vs. standing alert, urinating, defecating and ears backward) show that the treatments induced a positive and negative emotional state in the training pigs, respectively.

During the negative treatment, training pigs still spent more time standing alert, were more likely to urinate and had their tails more in a curl than during the positive treatment.

Irrespective of whether the naive pen mates received oxytocin or a placebo, they spent more time standing alert when the training pigs were in the negative treatment than when the training pigs were in the positive treatment (Table  8).

Gutiérrez-Gil et al. reported no overlapping QTLs for flight distance, walking-escaping-running, standing in alert, and vocalizations.

"When leaving Australia, the man triggered a long-standing alert at Melbourne Airport and at the time, there was an operational decision made by investigators that he could not be detained, as the officers had no lawful basis to prevent him from departing Australia," said federal police commissioner Tony Negus.

Before the referee could start his count, Broner was standing, wobbly but alert, but he didn't seem to have a plan.

I was surprised two weeks ago to walk into my local TD Bank, on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village, New York to find that the security officer who was usually standing by, on alert, had been replaced by a uniformed, armed, radio-carrying New York Police Department officer, Officer Battle.

In a thousand ways your army fights: one piece, as it retreats, itself captures its pursuer: a reserve piece, standing on the alert, comes from its distant retreat — this one dares to join the fray and cheats the enemy coming for his spoil.