livestock | livestock numbers | livestock population

Definition: Phobias restricted to highly specific situations such as proximity to particular animals, heights, thunder, darkness, flying, closed spaces, urinating or defecating in public toilets, eating certain foods, dentistry, or the sight of blood or injury. Though the triggering situation is discrete, contact with it can evoke panic as in agoraphobia or social phobia. | Acrophobia Animal phobias Claustrophobia Simple phobia

School / class size

downsizing [ workforce reduction | work force reduction | manpower reduction | reduction in work force | reduction in force | reduction in personnel | reduction of staff | staff cutback | staff reduction | workshedding | down-crewing | personnel surplus reduction | degrowing ]

actual rate of return

Toxic effect of contact with other marine animals

Definition: Disorders characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of dissocial, aggressive, or defiant conduct. Such behaviour should amount to major violations of age-appropriate social expectations; it should therefore be more severe than ordinary childish mischief or adolescent rebelliousness and should imply an enduring pattern of behaviour (six months or longer). Features of conduct disorder can also be symptomatic of other psychiatric conditions, in which case the underlying diagnosis should be preferred. Examples of the behaviours on which the diagnosis is based include excessive levels of fighting or bullying, cruelty to other people or animals, severe d ...[+++]estructiveness to property, fire-setting, stealing, repeated lying, truancy from school and running away from home, unusually frequent and severe temper tantrums, and disobedience. Any one of these behaviours, if marked, is sufficient for the diagnosis, but isolated dissocial acts are not.

Animal cage

Exposure to attack by marine animal

Once the whole colony is self-sustained, all animals born in that colony should be reported under Self-sustaining colony regardless of their generation derived from the maternal line.

2. Calls on the Commission to ensure an effective and uniform enforcement of existing EU legislation on animal transport across all Member States; considers that better enforcement is central to ensuring the effectiveness and workability of the existing legislation in order to improve transport conditions and avoid distortion of competition across EU Member States;

Once the whole colony is self-sustained, all animals born in that colony should be reported under Self-sustaining colony regardless of their generation derived from the maternal line.

This could on one hand dramatically increase the number of animals used in experiments, which is paradox, given the effort to reduce the number of experimental animals.