Sentence examples for striking animals from inspiring English sources

What is undeniably true is that pandas are striking animals.

The results were striking: animals on a high-salt diet had 10 times more TH17 cells than those on a regular diet.

But some of the most striking animals at Villa Lorena, located up a dirt road in the slum of Floralia, are the great cats that once belonged in the private zoos of drug traffickers, who still seem to find inspiration in the example of the dead cocaine baron Pablo Escobar.

Flatfishes such as flounder, turbot, and plaice are among the most striking animals in the sea.

Given the more than 258 million vehicles on the country's four million miles of public roads, it is little wonder that cars regularly strike animals.

Hundreds of volunteers collect and upload roadkill data to the California Roadkill Observation System, a mapping Web site built by researchers at the University of California, Davis, to better understand where and why cars strike animals.

Although the official result charts published online by Daily Racing Form do not provide any veterinary commentary beyond "broke down," "pulled up," or "went wrong," a gut feeling based on racetrack experience leads me to presume that some of those stricken animals met the same beyond-hope fate as Eight Belles, and required euthanasia.

He approaches the stricken animal cautiously, before deftly grabbing the wool, looping a sling around its body, then continuing his abseil to the ground below.

No doubt the author was particularly recalling the jolting, wooden-seated journeys of the years after the Civil War -- early in the succession of Europe's horrors -- when a devastated people began to move slowly about like a stricken animal regaining its legs.

Vets are desperately trying to save the stricken animal.

"Showmen frequently engage in negative reinforcement, whipping and striking the animals repeatedly, forcing them to carry out tricks that go against their natural behaviour".