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Hippos live in herds, they are quite aggressive. They are very territorial and are plant eaters in general. – Professor Echeverry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Monkeys who learn to react against humans will join other herds, leading to more monkeys that do not fear humans. – Mieko Kiyono	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt, it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes. The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths, we have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation -- humans had no impact on them at all based on our models. – Yucheng Wang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These removals are critical for the horses as well as the health of the rangelands, even in times where resources are plentiful, these overpopulated herds cause serious damage to the landscape. – Kaitlynn Glover	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
More( remains) could be found, these animals lived in herds, they didn't live alone, a little like the herds of elephants we see in Africa today. – Carlos Lopez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
From that point of view, it was done too late, one should have been alarmed... Clemens Toennies started testing, Clemens Toennies identified more and more cases, Clemens Toennies identified infection herds and Clemens Toennies put some kind of measures to stop the spread, but altogether, Clemens Toennies failed to control the outbreak. – Martin Stuermer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
One should have been alarmed... Clemens Toennies started testing, Clemens Toennies identified more and more cases, Clemens Toennies identified infection herds and Clemens Toennies put some kind of measures to stop the spread, but altogether, Clemens Toennies failed to control the outbreak. – Martin Stuermer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey. – Stephanie Drumheller	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This is trickery, they treat people like herds. It has no impact because people know what they are doing. – Tuncay Ulu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Hunting occurs in the dry season and targets large bulls, while elephant crop raiding coincides with the rainy season and the perpetrators tend to be young bulls or family herds, the variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict. – Mike Chase	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Herds often spend their time on there. – Philip McLellan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The feed grain price drop would prolong the high breeding margins for hog breeders, which are now recovering their herds, while for the corn processing industry, some products can be competitive globally. – Lief Chiang	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I see infected cattle herds and people eating fresh cheese and drinking fresh milk. – Alejandro Pereira-Ortiz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Chinese investors move in herds. After panic selling drove the market down to the extreme, prices are now starting to move in the other direction. – Samuel Chien	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Exactly when and where they go is impossible to predict. Most herds, however, are drawn to a specific calving area. The 169,000 member Porcupine caribou herd has such a connection with Arctic Refuge. – Cindy Shogan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. – John Gay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. – Charles Mackay	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. – Alfred Victor Vigny	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Hippos live in herds, they are quite aggressive. They are very territorial and are plant eaters in general.

– Professor Echeverry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Monkeys who learn to react against humans will join other herds, leading to more monkeys that do not fear humans.

– Mieko Kiyono

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt, it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes. The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths, we have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation -- humans had no impact on them at all based on our models.

– Yucheng Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These removals are critical for the horses as well as the health of the rangelands, even in times where resources are plentiful, these overpopulated herds cause serious damage to the landscape.

– Kaitlynn Glover

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

More( remains) could be found, these animals lived in herds, they didn't live alone, a little like the herds of elephants we see in Africa today.

– Carlos Lopez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

From that point of view, it was done too late, one should have been alarmed... Clemens Toennies started testing, Clemens Toennies identified more and more cases, Clemens Toennies identified infection herds and Clemens Toennies put some kind of measures to stop the spread, but altogether, Clemens Toennies failed to control the outbreak.

– Martin Stuermer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One should have been alarmed... Clemens Toennies started testing, Clemens Toennies identified more and more cases, Clemens Toennies identified infection herds and Clemens Toennies put some kind of measures to stop the spread, but altogether, Clemens Toennies failed to control the outbreak.

– Martin Stuermer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey.

– Stephanie Drumheller

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is trickery, they treat people like herds. It has no impact because people know what they are doing.

– Tuncay Ulu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Hunting occurs in the dry season and targets large bulls, while elephant crop raiding coincides with the rainy season and the perpetrators tend to be young bulls or family herds, the variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict.

– Mike Chase

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Herds often spend their time on there.

– Philip McLellan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The feed grain price drop would prolong the high breeding margins for hog breeders, which are now recovering their herds, while for the corn processing industry, some products can be competitive globally.

– Lief Chiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I see infected cattle herds and people eating fresh cheese and drinking fresh milk.

– Alejandro Pereira-Ortiz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Chinese investors move in herds. After panic selling drove the market down to the extreme, prices are now starting to move in the other direction.

– Samuel Chien

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Exactly when and where they go is impossible to predict. Most herds, however, are drawn to a specific calving area. The 169,000 member Porcupine caribou herd has such a connection with Arctic Refuge.

– Cindy Shogan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

– John Gay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

– Charles Mackay

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

– Alfred Victor Vigny

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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