16816 examples of animals in sentences

These animals were also more or less abundant along the Little Missouri River as late as the late '80's, and perhaps still later.

These people, as did also the Mexicans, killed big and little, and the animals, never abundant, were threatened with extermination.

] Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America

If our preservative measures are not prompt, there will be no animals to legislate for.

These animals were not made in a day, nor in a thousand years, nor in a million years.

These animals flourished during the period in which western America must have closely resembled the eastern and central portions of Africa at the present time.

The Glacial Period eliminated half of this fauna, whereas the equatorial latitude of the fauna in Africa saved that fauna from the attack of the Glacial Period, which was so fatally destructive to the animals in the more northerly latitudes of America.

When it passed off, there survived comparatively few indigenous North American animals, but the country was repopulated from the entire northern hemisphere, so that the magnificent wild animals which our ancestors found here were partly North American and partly Eurasiatic in origin.

I need not dwell on the astonishingly rapid diminution of our larger animals in the last few years; it would be like "carrying coals to Newcastle" to detail personal observations before this Club, which is full of men of far greater experience and knowledge than myself.

First, as of a great and legitimate industry in itself; second, from the economic standpoint; third, from the standpoint of wild animals.

The consequent effects upon both fish and wild animals are well known to you.

The last stage of destruction which these innocent animals bring about has not yet been reached, but it is approaching; it is the stage in which there is no food left for the sheep themselves.

By contrast to the sheep question, which is a purely economic or utilitarian one, and will settle itself, if we do not settle it by legislation based on scientific observation, the preservation of the Sequoia and of our large wild animals is one of pure sentiment, of appreciation of the ideal side of life; we can live and make money without either.

We cannot even use the argument which has been so forcibly used in the case of the birds, that the cutting down of these trees or killing of these animals will upset the balance of nature.

The preservation of even a few of our wild animals is a very large proposition; it is an undertaking the difficulty of which grows in magnitude as one comes to study it in detail and gets on the ground.

The chief difficulty in the enforcement of the law is that officers appointed locally, and partly from political reasons, shrink from applying the penalties of the law to their own friends and neighbors, especially where the animals are apparently abundant and are sought for food.

The enemies of our wild animals are numerous and constantly increasing.

This argument is now enforced by law and by public sentiment in Maine and New York, where the wild animals, both deer and moose, are actually increasing in number.

It must not be recorded that races of animals representing stocks 3,000,000 years of age, mostly developed on the American continent, were eliminated in the course of fifty years for hides and for food in a country abounding in sheep and cattle.

Among the animals slain by the hero is the "schelk," described as a powerful and dangerous beast.

The American view that practically all animals in this country represent species distinct from their European congeners is now generally accepted, and the name Alces americanus has been given to the American form.

The animal itself has great bulk, but perhaps not more so than the animals of the Cassiar Mountains, to which it is closely related.

Perhaps Johnson refers to Stephen Hales's Statical Essays (London, 1733), in which is an account of experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals.

In the pride of my heart, I attempted imitations of some other animals, but with very inferior effect.

[1105] See ante, iii. 266, and v. 20, where 'Mr. Crosbie said that the English are better animals than the Scots.'

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