Sentence examples for timid animals from inspiring English sources

"They are usually fairly timid animals," continues Brennan.

Sheep are basically timid animals who tend to graze in flocks and are almost totally lacking in protection from predators.

Gorillas are peaceful, rather timid animals whose numbers have plummeted at the hands of humans who chop down their forests, shoot them for food, and spread transmissible diseases to them.

Unwillingness to enter novel, exposed areas is common throughout the animal kingdom, and time taken to emerge from a sheltered area into an open and unfamiliar environment has been measured in laboratory rodents, domestic chicks and quail under the assumption that fearful or timid animals take longer to emerge [64] [66].

Bunnies are naturally very timid animals.

Turtles are very timid animals and will need time to adjust to their new environment.

For instance, a timid animal would really not want to be bothered by a psycho puppy or cat.

In her final report with the wildlife rescue squad in North Somerset, Margherita meets some of the most timid orphaned animals which need the gentlest of care or they could literally die of fright.

Inside the ring, Air Time — a 1,650-pound 1,650-poundhite compact car of an animal — lives up to his name, but outside it he is a timid creature easily spooked by even his own shadow.

He worried that the state's power would end up concentrated in a single authority, until its citizens were "reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd". He feared the majority would trample on minorities, like the mob that attacked the Baltimore editors, or the whites of Pennsylvania who intimidated blacks into not voting.

Unfortunately, we are naively living under a soft despotism -- thereby rendering ourselves "timid and industrious animals" to the "shepherd" that is our federal government.