In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite – shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.
The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget.
There was never a moment in my life that I remember not being a crazy animal lover!’
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
At the end of the day, your animal’s never going to give up on you.
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
While it’s typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it’s another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish.
I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I’m a huge animal lover. They’re amazing.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
I’ve played in Boston and New York, and it doesn’t matter if you’re sick, aching – once you step on that field, you’re a completely different animal.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that’s the first lesson you learn. You can’t be real precious. When you’re doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It’s a different animal.
I wear only animal socks. I went to Koreatown and got a hundred packs of panda and money prints.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the ’60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.
When I did ‘Babe’ I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.
NXT is its own kind of animal, and you’re never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.
Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let’s do it.
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
We’re lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn’t feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.
I’ve heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, ‘Animal Mechanicals,’ ‘Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.’
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
In the case of ‘Fantastic Woman,’ I wanted to make it a more complex animal than just a ’cause’ film. Even though I was sympathizing with the character’s struggle, I didn’t want to be trapped at that level – it’s important, but it can be quite basic.
A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn’t treated very nicely.
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they’d be.
I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
I don’t have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.
Every time you lose an animal, it’s like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
There’s a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called ‘funny animal scrolls’ were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
I have worked out with Salman Khan. He trains like an animal. He trains really hard.
A man who would not love his father’s grave is worse than a wild animal.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She’s a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there’s no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
I just came home and said, ‘I’m a vegetarian.’ My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people – that’s our mission.
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
I turned down ‘American Gigolo.’ There are many films – like ‘Ghostbusters’ – that I turned down… The first one I did was ‘Foul Play’ with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down ‘Animal House’ – I turned that down.
Don’t buy furs: that’s No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
When you’re a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
I’m not really an animal person.
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
