Animal Definition and 123 Threads

Heya, I am wondering how would one calculate or find the force associated with animals such as tigers, dogs, lions etc. At the moment, i am interested in finding how much force or pressure is created by a cat when it scratches. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. As a side note...

A charged battery should have a mass a little greater than a depleted battery. Surely that is measurable. So does a live person have greater mass than his or her dead equivalent? Surely that is a 2nd law of thermodynamics that would be revealing. Or is the entropy of life so small that it is...

I have always had a love for animals (especially reptiles, I have 5 snakes) and animal science. Especially conservation. But I have also discovered that I have a love for physics and engineering. How many years of schooling are we talking here if I major in somekind of animal science (say...

i've always wondered this...

Reminds me of Monty Python, see if you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ssXJtzFOjA"... from the BBC... that explains it... Rhody... :biggrin: P.S. Fuzzy, Turbo, you will like this... the moon walking bird just kills me...

I'm an animal at this game, I play everyday.

Interesting finds. Continued... http://www.livescience.com/12883-plant-animal-mysterious-fossils-defy-classification.html

Hello, Chitose wonder chick here. It's been a while since last time I post my question here. right now I'm working on my new novel and need little help about radar. ........... Can radar that scan through sky detect flying animal? (in my case is 4 meter dragon) I wonder, If it can...

I am sure probably everyone has seen the news about the flocks of birds and fish that are dying off at different places in the world. The point of my question here is not to somehow explain why they died or if it's the beginning of the apocalypse. Rather I am curious about whether there is a...

I'm not very good at science, let alone physics so can someone please help me with my project. Its about animals movement I think i am going to do it on cats, rabbits, horses and birds. Any information would be fine I would like to know stuff like e.g. what does a horse do when its about to...

I have read some things such as reports of the Stefansson Bellevue experiment, or his reports of the Eskimos, and a few references to the research of Pennington, Kekwick, Donaldson, MacKarness, and their having patients on a dietary intake of low carbohydrate or very low carbohydrate, moderate...

In honor of Danger's talking cat... I have never seen the blinking thing discussed anywhere before. I've found this works not only with cats, but with dogs, and deer as well. But the blink rate is different depending on the animal. Integral has a dog that would go nuts if I gave her a slow...

ok here's a description. It sort of looks like a cyclomedusa at the top only a bit more detailed. Then it sort of looks like a jellyfish; long strings going down. Then it has the cyclomedusa thing at the bottom. I found it in my backyard! I'm only 12 years old so I'm clueless! Geology is my...

Hello all, Recently while on a 'schoolies' vacation a few friends presented a puzzle of 9 squares pieces that can be arranged into a larger 3x3 square. Each small piece had half an animal on each edge (either the head or tail, of say, a goat for a seahorse). The aim was to rotate each piece...

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What limits the acceleration of a runner? and how does this work? my intuition is that it is primarily gravity. air resistance should have minimal influence. if this is the case, then it seems that humans (and most other legged animals) would reach their top speed almost immediately, since...

I've tried googling and using google scholar, but to no avail? I'm especially interested about avian (bird) brain masses. Thanks!

I'm not sure if I should post this in the politics part of the forum. I found in an excellent source of information claims that dolphins, penguins, frogs and birds engages in homosexual behavior. I was wondering what remains of the argument that homosexuality is against Nature, such as, for...

Fairgoers ride a Ferris wheel with a radius of 5.00 m . The wheel completes one revolution every 31.0 s If a rider accidentally drops a stuffed animal at the top of the wheel, where does it land relative to the base of the ride? (Note: The bottom of the wheel is 1.75 m above the ground.)...

Is it less immoral to torture animals than to torture humans? When thinking about the moral status of animals, the question is not "Can they reason?", nor "Can they speak?" but "Can they suffer?". I the ability of animals to feel pain and pleasure puts them on a plane of moral equivalence...

Physics principles and animal locomotion I am a physics final 4th year student , My final year project is to Illustrate the Physics principles using animal locomotion(, behavior). E.g. :-Millipede leg movements - Longitude waves Video Illustration Snake movement - transverse wave...

It's a huge sanctuary for all kinds of animals. I'm watching the national Geographic special on their "dog town". It is so wonderful to see people that devote their time to rescuing animals. http://www.bestfriends.org/atthesanctuary/animals/dogs.cfm This is the canine version of the Cat...

Homework Statement A gun designed to shoot with speed 630 m/sec Find: a) from which point above the goal must the hunter shoot to catch an animal, if the horizontal distance between them is 700 meter ? b) What is the max high for the bullet ? c) what is the time bullet take to get at the...

Have any of you watched Whale Wars? There's a couple of things to point out here ... - killing whales is a dispicable practice , especially when you kill them and immediately package them up right away through an onboard ship factory line. - The Japanese are doing it in Australian waters...

I have this neighbor who keeps his two dogs outside within a cage that is about the dimensions of a shed - all year for the past few years. He has moved to another location , every once in a while he checks up on them it seems , again he has been doing this for a couple of years. The cage is...

Not sure if this is qualifies as biology but, I saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVb3t560oY" the other day and was wondering if there were any studies done revealing how animals maintain law and order, do buffalo herds or ant colonies have something resembling a justice system? As an...

So not only are researchers spelling out the genetic sequences of extinct creatures, they have now successfully inserted some DNA from an extinct animal into a modern day one and observed how that DNA functions. Amazing! Researchers took tissue from 100yr old museum specimens of a...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080206150703.htm

On Dirty Jobs tonight, Mike Rowe was helping an Big Animal Veteranarian. What was that critter? It looks like it could have been a wolverine or fisher but it had a very pointed snout like a possum has. Big white whiskers. I can't describe it well, but I've been ruling things out with my...

This is the final vote for this contest. You have only one vote to cast. Please vote for the best picture on animals, not including domesticated cats and dogs. 1. turbo-1 2. larkspur 3. FredGarvin http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4922/detzoo077smjh7.jpg 4. ~christina~...

This is the second group for this contest. 1. FredGarvin http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4922/detzoo077smjh7.jpg 2. ~christina~ http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/200/streeetchbywhitepegasuskj0.jpg 3. Integral 4. scorpa 5. ZapperZ 6. fi...

Whoa! We have not only a terrific set of pictures for this contest, but also a huge variety in terms of specie and size, ranging from the small grasshopper-like bug all the way to gorillas and Orcas! Voting for this contest should be interesting. There are two groups for you to vote on. You...

Which is the most diverse animal or plant, if one classes any thing living that is not a plant an animal.

Animal Instinct This week's picture will be on ANIMALS. However, it does NOT include domesticated cats and dogs, since they either already have, or will have, their own separate category. The "wild cousins" of cats and dogs such as tigers, lions, coyotes, wolves, etc. are allowed. Good...

Do humans have different EEG readings than animals?

This is the question which I'm working on: When an animal dies the radioctive carbon content of its body has an activity of 12 counts per gram per minute. Some animal remains are found to have an activity of 3 counts per gram per minute. If the half life of radioactive carbon id 5000 years,how...

I remember reading a while ago about an animal with a fairly large range. Animals in areas adjacent to each other were genetically similar enough to interbreeed with no problems, but animals from opposite ends of their range could not. I think they existed in semi-isolated populations but am not...

Sooooo, being that we live in the sticks, we have this problem with our cats dragging dead things into the house and my office - mice, moles, voles, bats, birds, and other red goooey things that can't be identified, . I have been trying to break my office kitty - Bun - of the habbit as she...

Could anyone explain to me nerve signals in particular action potential and the Myelin Steath? Also animal electricty with Luigi Galvani? Thankyou if you can :) ps Sorry if this in wrong topic, new user:)

Hello I got the photograph in shenzheng. I do not know what is on picture or even it name. http://www.huaxia-han.com/bbs/attachment/Mon_0705/13_17213_526add0d08fb52b.jpg"

What is your favourite animal?

Well I've been thinking for a long time about how to track fish in canals here in England. Reason being they move around a tremendous amount and are generally very hard to find, although they are often present in large numbers when discovered. This makes the fishing very exciting for about 1% of...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5249518974978628334&hl=en opinions?

1. Integral http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/keiko.jpg 2. dav2008 http://home.comcast.net/~cubz2008/squirreldav2008.jpg 3. matthyaouw 4. ZapperZ http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/7935/vacation20021443yu.jpg 5. larkspur http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/Boobird.jpg...

1. J77 http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2572/gorillas15wi.jpg 2. ToxicBug http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/515/shushu10sj.jpg 3. turbo-1 http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7493/jugboy4uc.jpg 4. PRodQuanta http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5192/photo0711050024za.jpg 5...

We had a lot of submission with terrific pictures. I pity everyone who has to vote. It's an impossible choice! The submissions are in 3 different voting groups. You can vote once in each group. 1. Evo 2. Moonbear http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6836/ribbit9vs.jpg 3. Ivan...

You Animal! This time, our theme involves animal/s. Your picture must include animal/s as the main focus of the picture. Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a grey area, or you're not...

Keeping cool :confused: Alright I know that this is a strange question but I and my phd chemist father don't understand this. Here it is and don't laugh. I was going to shave my dog because well summer is here and it would be nice to keep him cool. Strangely enough every single place I go...

have anyone of you ever thought of putting chloroplasts into animal cells? What would happen if i did?

What's an animal that can swim underwater, run on land, and fly in the air? Mythological or not. Just curious :smile: