Ryan considered the route of simply opting for something characteristically Georgian - like a native animal - as "fairly trite".
Manefish are thought to steal food from or feed on a jellyfish-like animal called a siphonophore.
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In the mid 1990s photos and video emerged of a large panther-like animal in Cornwall.
It's almost like a living thing - like some animal that's going to devour you.
Hilgart knows there is a market for animal-free fashion among people like her, vegan or not, who take conscious consumerism to an active level.
The director, Xavier Dolan, also co-stars as Francis, a young man who, with his best friend, Marie (Monia Chokri), hovers swoonfully around Nicolas (Niels Schneider), an impulsive, model-like party animal whose mop of golden curls hides the blithering emptiness of his gaze as he leads them on a merry chase of erotic desperation while basking in their adulation.
And so, of course, you know, with a spectacular animal like that, having--her absence is noted throughout the aquarium.
"They are coming closer, collecting food, rolling over, even allowing petting - in some instances the behaviour is more dog-like than fox-like, " says Dr Roger Mugford, an animal psychologist who runs the Animal Behaviour Centre.
The US is the world's largest producer of alfalfa, a grass-like plant used as animal feed.
Co-author Alexander Liu said the animal was not completely aquatic, since it lacked adaptations like a "stream-lined body or flipper-like limbs".
In theory measles could be eradicated - like smallpox it has no animal host.
The winner in the "concept, " or early development, category was Yashmere, a socially-responsible venture aimed at exporting the cashmere-like yarn made from the fur of yaks, the buffalo-type animal native to Tibet and other mountainous parts of far western China.
Business divisions like the film studio, the stuffed-animal division and publishing have always made product decisions independently without consulting one another.
The team was "like a wounded animal waiting to break a 12-year drought" and its members were "fitter and stronger than the home team".
And just as network television did with successful law shows like Law and Order and CSI, Animal Planet--owned by Discovery Communications , which also owns Discovery Channel--spun their top show into a franchise: There are four shows--in New York, Houston, Miami and Detroit--about animal cops.
Like a fossil hinting at a long-gone animal, a black hole is offering clues about a now-destroyed galaxy that may once have existed around it.
But for a better reduction in animal suffering, PETA should focus more on combating short-sighted decisions like novelty gifts rather than staging Manhattan publicity stunts likely to have small impact on total fur production.
An animal rights activist said Knut should be killed rather than treated like a domestic pet - a suggestion that triggered a nationwide surge of affection for the cub.
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The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.
' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.
Once everyone is tired out, organisers like Newmindspace in New York collect pillows to donate to no-kill animal shelters and remind participants to clean up any mess.
The actual Edie was a stick, not much more substantial than Twiggy (though sexier), with haunted, kohl-shadowed peepers and a hanging lower lip that made her look like a frightened animal.
Once a case is investigated--often ending with the perpetrator being hauled into the back of an ASPCA squad car (which looks just like a New York Police Department car)--the narrative follows the animal's recovery at the ASPCA hospital and eventual adoption into a good home.
As skilled as the large-animal vets were, I'd learned, nobody could read a donkey better than a farrier like Ken.
Organizations like Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Humane Society and -- yes -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals all campaign in various ways to stop the decimation of whales and other intelligent creatures of the sea.
All this moving of the goalposts is sounding a bit like the doctoring of the supposedly unalterable Seven Commandments daubed on the barn wall in George Orwell's Animal Farm, or some kids adopting a no-Horace policy in their secret society because they don't like Horace.
Discount-cigarette billionaire owns land in Texas, New Mexico and Florida, mostly used to propagate rare animal species, like the pygmy hippo and okapi.
And the way the skinny neck disappeared between the animal's breastplate and shell-a squirming, live thing slipping hidden into dead stony stuff-it seemed suddenly like the Mystery of Mysteries, the very source of Life .
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