Like many Ladakhi houses, this one reserves the lowest floor for livestock, and the tiny gray donkey, whose braying like rusty hinges grinding has kept me awake these past two nights, steps out to sun himself.
At the first-ever symposium on the field held last week at the meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he and about 150 other scientists discussed the tiny lives that underlie flatulence, manure, livestock, and pet odors.
Lemus and Blanco climbed trees to access vulture nests in central Spain, where scavengers depend largely on livestock carrion, and took tiny blood samples from a total of 71 nestlings of all three species.
Two hundred GM scientists and engineers are working on all four problems at once at the company's fuel-cell headquarters, a lab next to a livestock feed store in tiny Honeoye Falls, N.Y.
Haitians were struggling to feed themselves before the hurricanes battered their agricultural lands, killed their livestock and washed away their tiny stores of rice.
As city dwellers abandoned the practice of urban livestock rearing, the market for the tiny guinea hog shrank, and with it went one of the most distinct flavors in the city's cuisine.
The study found that growing meat in the lab rather than slaughtering animals would generate only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with conventional livestock production.
After Don Juan attacked the domestic animals here, the National Park Service sent letters to about 500 residents of Ochopee and Copeland, tiny communities in the Everglades, stressing "the importance of securing livestock properly".
Tiny radio frequency identification, or R.F.I.D., tags similar to VeriChip have been embedded in livestock and pets by the millions in recent years as a more secure form of identification than external tags.
