Animals
- Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth, a species of sloth from Central and South America
- Hoffmann's Titi
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker, a resident breeding bird from southern Honduras south to Costa Rica
- Hoffmanns's Woodcreeper, a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily
- Hoffmann's Pika, a species of mammal in the Ochotonidae family
- Hoffmann's Rat, a species of rodent in the family Muridae
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... Some animals, previously present in abundance, have disappeared, or the populations declined, through habitat loss ... Other animals became locally extinct through overhunting ... The Pennsylvania Game Commission brought 177 animals from the Rocky Mountains to the state from 1913 to 1926 today the elk herd of over 600 animals can often be seen in Quehanna Wild Area ...
... varying shapes and sizes used to shelter large and small animals ... The pens used to shelter large animals are called stalls and are usually located on the lower floor ... often set up as a breakroom a feed room, where animal feed is stored - not typically part of a modern barn where feed bales are piled in a stackyard a drive bay, a wide corridor for animals or machinery a silo where ...
... Which foodstuffs were edible, which animals were to become man's totems and which were taboo, as these are either messengers or omens ... Taking a totem animal is allowed within the clan of that animal ... A man must present at least one of each one of his clan's totem animals to the heads of all the other clans to become a man ( among other rites of ...
... Islam differentiates from Christianity on the account of the animals loaded in the ark ... local, around the Dead Sea area, and the animals were Noah's domesticated animals ...
... Department of Justice defines a "service animal" for the legal purposes as "any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the ... Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition." This revised definition excludes all comfort animals, which are pets that ... owner may feel calmer when he or she is near the pet.) Unlike a service animal, a comfort animal is not trained to perform specific, measurable tasks directly related to the person's disability ...
Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“Feet are considered a delicacy among certain animals, you know.... In fact, there are certain man-eating animals who will eat only the feet, leave everything else, will not touch one other thing.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... “Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?””
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)