Once bighorn herds grew large enough to spare members, biologists moved them around — to establish new herds in long-vacant habitat and to inject biological diversity into smaller herds like the one on Mount Gibbs.
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Dairy herds have definitely been growing: England had 250 herds with at least 220,260 cows in 216, up from five in 2100, according to industry body AHDB.
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"What they need is long-term year round workers that can become familiar with the herds, can manager the herds and live on site with their families," says Hanna.
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It can be hard to identify precisely who owns herds.
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In the evening, he herds them back into the pen.
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"Herds often spend their time on there," he says hopefully.
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These migratory herds are the lifeblood of many Western landscapes.
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The latest battles are against Norway's limits on reindeer herds.
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Clouds of horn flies were wiped clean from cattle herds.
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That's feasible in herds that roam small areas, such as those on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but herds in the West are scattered over thousands of acres that equal the land mass of Mississippi.
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Out the window, farmers in traditional Andean ponchos tended their herds.
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Farmers often mistake fruit-seeking hyenas for marauders hunting their herds.
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It's no wonder wannabe husbands are no longer raiding zebu herds.
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Also, there's a risk of virus transmission to domestic pig herds.
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That leaves American supplies plentiful after farmers increased their hog herds.
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Meanwhile, American supplies are hefty after farmers increased their hog herds.
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The urban herds have become another emblem of the city's distinction.
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But U.S. supplies of hogs remain ample after producers expanded herds.
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That's because there aren't huge herds roaming the plateaus these days.
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ASF is one of the most devastating diseases to affect swine herds.
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"Oftentimes success in the colony depended on herds of cattle," he said.
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With no predators, the herds are limited only by the food supply.
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Ranchers across the states also have been forced to cull their herds.
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Roads, railways, reservoirs and holiday cabins have raised pressure on the herds.
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Visit any firm's lobby and you will meet herds of job applicants.
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"Some people lost their entire herds, but we're very fortunate," Cutrer said.
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Another is phasing out its cattle herds and receiving tourists and researchers.
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In affected herds, 100 percent of animals deceased — an insanely high percentage.
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Travelers can expect to see lions, elephants, cheetahs and herds of wildebeest.
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Wildebeests still converge in herds as far as the eye can see.
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He has had to sharply reduce his herds of cattle and sheep.
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Within their close-knit matriarchal herds, they cooperate and make group decisions.
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In some herds, as many as half of the animals carry prions.
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Most animals that weigh tons live amid roaming herds and few people.
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Though chronic wasting disease has not been detected in the vast herds of elk, or in deer and moose in Yellowstone, officials are worried it will find its way into the park and diminish the size of the herds.
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After a few amusing moments, mom rushes in and desperately herds them away.
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Jaguars prey on ranchers' cattle, and ranchers kill jaguars to protect their herds.
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Fearing murder, pastoralists cannot take their herds to places with water and vegetation.
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Small operators usually lack the expertise or funds necessary to protect their herds.
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Peaceful animals wander in herds, and will stampede if a giant predator intrudes.
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In the mornings, the herds wander down to the Shire River to drink.
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They're particularly vulnerable to poaching because they're relatively unaggressive and travel in herds.
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Instead they are agreeably surprised by visiting herds of journalists, scientists and environmentalists.
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Such mega-herds—each up to 800 strong—pass through the Chinko region.
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Many dare not expand the herds even if they are making profits now.
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Those, in turn, are typically repaired quickly by your herds of robo-workers.
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Because the stampeding youthful herds I'd once found exhilarating I now found exhausting.
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Rusingoryx led a lifestyle similar to hadrosaurs: herbivores both likely traveling in herds.
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Their purview ranges from archaeological sites to logging operations to wild mustang herds.
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For one, two caribou herds less than two miles away were completely fine.
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China crushes soybeans for animal feed ingredient soymeal for its massive livestock herds.
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Now, the droughts are so frequent that rebuilding herds is pretty much impossible.
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African swine fever, a disease deadly to pigs, is ravaging herds across Asia.
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More than 203,000 elk in at least nine major herds travel these corridors.
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Love her or hate her, nobody herds the cats better than Ms. Pelosi.
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African swine fever is highly contagious and nearly 2772% fatal to swine herds.
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African swine fever is highly contagious and nearly 2772% fatal to swine herds.
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People escaping with their herds are sometimes charged a fee for each animal.
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Massive herds of dinosaurs started fleeing Europe, and scientists are not sure exactly why.
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China crushes soybeans to produce soymeal, which is fed to its massive livestock herds.
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We are talking of massive herds, up to 800 cattle, herded by young men.
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Outbreaks of African swine fever are currently restricting farmers' ability to replenish their herds.
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At least twice this year trains have plowed into elephant herds, killing endangered wildlife.
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At Assateague Island National Seashore, herds of wild horses frolic among beachgoers and tourists.
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Bison herds of up to 30 million animals once migrated freely across North America.
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Nothing is more foolish than dropping a hunting gun before herds of ferocious wolves.
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On the hill opposite us, above the swamp, there were other herds, other herders.
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With no grass to feed their herds, ranchers sold cattle to pay for hay.
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For nearly another two years, they'd prepped Them's Fightin' Herds without seeing a dime.
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Herds of cars sat at a dead stop, trying to enter the Holland Tunnel.
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A couple shepherds tended their herds in the thick dust, letting the sheep wander.
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Why it matters: Climate change is altering weather patterns, choking off herds' food supply.
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It's hoped that resistant animals will reproduce enough to maintain the populations of herds.
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But it is undeniably popular in Kazakhstan, creating demand for the crossbred camel herds.
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We passed through huge, shaggy herds of buffalo, which raised their heads and stared.
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Chinese buyers mainly use soy to crush into soymeal to feed its livestock herds.
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Go deeper: Global pork prices soar as swine fever infects herds in eastern Asia
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But the verdant fields have attracted a new problem to Mashaba: herds of hungry elephants.
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Additionally, falling profits at pig farms should reduce demand for soymeal feed for the herds.
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Jasper Hill owns and milks its own herds, but Kehler would rather not be farming.
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Wolverines roam, as well as bears, foxes, hares and caribou, though the herds have dwindled.
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But when they have insurance, they can use the money to keep their herds alive.
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Wisconsin herds are below 8,000, or half compared to 15 years ago, the Times reports.
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The app, which launched in November 2013, places users into "herds" based on their location.
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China cut off U.S. supply in 2003 when mad cow disease affected some American herds.
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But the real costs of this calamity go beyond the destruction of China's pig herds.
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Analysts have been struggling to assess the severity of the virus on China's pig herds.
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That's when herds flock in from all directions to munch the lush lawns and parkways.
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Farmers fear the disease could return this winter due to waning immunity levels in herds.
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According to Hayes, these migrating groups likely followed herds of animals out of the region.
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Perhaps wild aurochs exchanged DNA between herds—or maybe cattle farmers actively bred the two.
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Threatened by herds of hungry animals and human encroachment, Pando is fighting a losing battle.
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The government herds children into labor camps and sorts them according to their abilities ("Divergent").
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Wednesday's briefing incorrectly identified the contagious virus affecting pig herds in Asia as swine flu.
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Cases can arise spontaneously in cattle herds, usually in animals 8 years old or older.
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After that, Beijing gave generous subsidies to all farmers to replenish their herds, said Wang.
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This is a good way to not build new herds, which may be the point.
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An earlier version of this briefing misstated the contagious virus affecting pig herds in Asia.
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He learned to ride his horse great distances, hunting herds of buffalo across vast plains.
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In areas where hunting is prohibited, like my backyard, no one is tracking the herds.
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U.S. hog supplies are large after farmers expanded their herds to supply new processing plants.
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Boko Haram has routinely stolen herds of cattle and raided markets to feed its ranks.
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If the herds grow too large, they will exhaust the land's ability to sustain them.
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Perhaps predator management could only ever control half or a third of all horse herds.
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You see them mostly on their lunch hour, young stockbrokers, and they're running in herds.
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U.S. hog supplies are large after farmers expanded their herds to supply new processing plants.
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As Kazakhstan pulled out of its post-Soviet economic slump, the camel herds also recovered.
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Changes that impact people today — the health of the reindeer, the viability of the herds.
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The central milking parlour forces farmers with big herds to keep animals indoors, he says.
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Campers report the fear of being trampled by herds in the middle of the night.
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They found no evidence of large herds eating the vegetation supplied by a greener Arctic.
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China's culling of soy meal-fed hog herds due to swine flu has dampened prices, too.
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However, they have become a big problem for some farmers, ravaging sheep, goat and cattle herds.
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Without the bales now arriving in Oklahoma, many ranchers would likely have to sell their herds.
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The campaign herds us into the press staging area and back to the cage we go.
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Cash cattle and futures have come under pressure from rising production after ranchers expanded their herds.
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This was a quiet pervasion of death — an invisible pathogen carried by herds of tired rats.
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As herds were moved into barns, and thus away from grass, more and more munched maize.
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Since the mid-1990s, the size of reindeer and caribou herds has declined by 56 percent.
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But most populations of animals, like particular herds, or schools of fish, have seen declining numbers.
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Officials say the animals are easily frightened and often move in large herds during inclement weather.
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With cheaper herds, ranchers can raise more cows and send more beef out to the market.
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Vet Andre Uys scans the plains from the air each morning, deciding which herds to dart.
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Saudi Arabia grows alfalfa hay in both states for shipment back to its domestic dairy herds.
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And like most students with fragile identities requiring constant attention, they tend to move in herds.
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In Rwanda, some herds grew bigger quickly, but you couldn't ask questions—it was too dangerous.
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Second, it won't permit the routine use of the antibiotics to prevent infectious diseases in herds.
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Ever-growing herds are overgrazing public lands, but public opinion prevents the horses from being killed.
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Farmers such as Slabbert are looking back to those immense herds to recreate the natural cycle.
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Mr. Bellò posted pictures of yak herds and several of the climbers scaling slabs of rock.
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Farmers who lost everything must now reassemble herds, replace equipment and wait for land to regenerate.
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I didn't expect to see guys in herds running up and down the river, for example.
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The Swine Flu, otherwise known as the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, was first discovered in humans in the US. Scientists linked gene segments in the virus with other influenza viruses amongst pigs, in this case, North American pig herds and Eurasian pig herds, the CDC said.
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The result is that maize is increasingly sprouting in parts of the country with few dairy herds.
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Declines in the markets reflected expectations that meat supplies will remain plentiful, after farmers expanded their herds.
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It's not uncommon to see herds of deer out in the Scottish Highlands, especially during spring time.
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The vicious attacks saw the raiders looting food supplies, carting away herds, and kidnapping women and children.
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She told reporters that there was now greater risk that the disease had spread to more herds.
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But the long drought has already devastated herds and forced many farmers to seek aid in cities.
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The Bedouins say this spot between the Dead Sea and Jerusalem is ideal for maintaining their herds.
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Dr. Hetem said she's already worried about herds of wildebeest south of the animals Dr. Wilson studied.
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On my journey to the crater, it was commonplace to see herds of wild camels roaming freely.
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Mercury and dioxin seeped into the aquifer, tainting produce and sheep herds, a source of prized cheese.
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Prices are below production costs in part because farmers continued to overbuild their herds despite lagging demand.
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With their herds suffering and their future bleak, Dokpas began abandoning the mountains a few decades ago.
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Several large beef producers agreed to boycott ranchers whose herds grazed on denuded stretches of the Amazon.
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Michonne used to walk around with two walkers at her sides to blend in with the herds.
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But in other years more regular and severe droughts are depleting water and pasture and decimating pastoralists herds.
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It's sort of like a FitBit for herds, except it also alerts you if a cow goes missing.
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Atypical mad cow cases can arise spontaneously in cattle herds, usually in animals 8 years old or older.
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Farmers are increasingly unwilling to expand their herds, as it is hard to get rid of unproductive livestock.
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In the summer, they harvest cloudberries and blueberries; caribou herds roam across the vast expanse of inland tundra.
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China is the world's largest pork consumer and its massive hog herds have been decimated by the disease.
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The farms include mostly sow herds, which produce piglets, and finishing barns that raise pigs to slaughter weight.
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As a result, producers looking to add to their herds started to shy away from buying young pigs.
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Some ranchers are also culling their herds more than usual, putting more cattle on the market this year.
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Jaguars prey on their cattle, and ranchers kill jaguars to defend their herds and their way of life.
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More cheerfully, as many as 2000,000 wild horses used to be adopted out of BLM herds each year.
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Players aren't chasing herds of virtual creatures, and catching pokémon is limited to tossing pokéballs — sorry fishing fans.
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On the outskirts of Raqqa, during the battle against ISIS , a farmer herds goats and sheep at sundown.
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Third, it won't permit the use of the antibiotics to control the spread of infectious diseases in herds.
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"President Trump and I have talked and both believe that conservation and healthy herds are critical," he said.
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First, it is endorsed by notoriously strange bedfellows who have traditionally battled over competing visions for these herds.
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The number of milk-cow herds is down 20% from five years ago, per local NBC station WGRZ.
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Woodland caribou are found in western Canada, but some herds go as far east as Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The cheese must be made from milk from grazing herds no more than 30 miles from the farm.
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Over time, the wild herds were shot out and much of the plains became corn and potato fields.
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Pork prices soared 46.7%, after an increase of 27% in July, as swine fever decimates the country's herds.
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Emu farms are sparsely scattered across the state, where farmers turn their herds into meal and oil products.
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Herds do not run but drift into shapes that suggest some emerging group consciousness of an escape route.
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If a wolf attacked your herds, and you lost all of your sheep, each family would bring one.
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Now, near the end of his career, he worries that more herds are headed for a similar collapse.
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On one side of the station is a patchwork of family farms, each raising small herds of cattle.
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Families in this region traditionally raised cattle, but many have sold their herds to buy food to survive.
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Demand has since cratered because the pig herds that eat it have been reduced by African swine fever.
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Often one agency kills lions in the exact spots where the other is trying to limit horse herds.
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"The Year of the Wildebeest" (1975) tracked the migration of the great herds in the central African plains.
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Millions of people live by herding cattle, for example, and climate-change-related drought is killing their herds.
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She would spend the entire weekend there, by herself, sharing the forest with herds of big-horn sheep.
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Hughes herds all the men through a swinging door into the kitchen, leaving Vance alone with the suspect.
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They bet that when the rains return and other farmers start rebuilding, the value of their herds will soar.
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Dairy farmers were being forced to reduce their herds because of high feed costs, sending more cattle to slaughter.
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He's the only one who disappeared, the only one who drove herds and took them all like roasted sheep.
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The hay would be enough to feed his cattle and his neighbors' herds for at least a few weeks.
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If cows were a country, the United Herds of Earth would be the planet's third largest greenhouse-gas emitter.
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Soldiers should be venturing out into the wilderness to thin the herds of infected before they reach dangerous numbers.
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He grew up south of Nairobi in the Rift Valley, where large herds of wildebeest once roamed the plains.
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Meanwhile, the threat of ASF showing up in the U.S. hog herds continues to hang over the domestic industry.
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At Prairie State Park, however, you'll find flourising fields of tall grass, tons of wildflowers, and herds of bison.
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Herds have to travel great distances for food, sometimes more than 10 miles, and animals experts say that's unsustainable.
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An outbreak of the highly contagious African swine fever in China has forced Chinese hog producers to cull herds.
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Ranchers rushed to thin their herds during a massive Midwest drought in 2012, which eventually sent beef prices rising.
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And sometimes especially large herds can get in each other's way as they scramble to escape a charging predator.
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"Ancient elephant migratory patters are still used by some of the last #wild herds of Sumatran elephants," he wrote.
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The government even paid dairy farmers not to produce any dairy for five years, buying the farmers' cattle herds.
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They've moved in herds over to porn as well, along with many other earnest investigations of dinosaur mating behaviors.
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Oh yeah, and also, there are the herds of marauding dinosaur-inspired robots left over from pre-apocalypse times.
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Others try to promote human-elephant coexistence, building "fences" of beehives for farmers, to frighten crop-raiding herds away.
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But with limited land to produce big herds to meet rising beef demand, China has been stepping up imports.
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The Maradonians come from miles away, trekking through plains and herds of cattle to celebrate the mass of D10S.
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This latest rider circumvents the law's intent since mass permanent sterilizations would lead to nonreproducing herds and nonviable populations.
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As long as ASF ravages China's pork herds, American farmers will continue to be at risk from the disease.
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These annual round-trip journeys saw herds, or mobs, of Diprotodon travelling as much as 125 miles (200 km).
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The grounds we strolled around Dyrham Park, just north of Bath, let our son marvel at herds of deer.
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The grasses recede, forcing herds of wildebeest to walk farther and farther from their only water source to graze.
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"President Trump and I have talked, and both believe that conservation and healthy herds are critical," the statement said.
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The loss of mosquitoes could alter the paths of caribou herds, which migrate great distances to avoid being bitten.
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Restoring herds to Native American land after 219 years would be a simple reparation for the country to make.
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The total number of herds in Wisconsin is now below 8,000 — about half as many as 15 years ago.
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In their turn, butter makers and suppliers are calling on farmers to increase their dairy herds to meet demand.
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Explorers saw herds running on the Great Plains, likening the sight to the roll of waves in the ocean.
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Svalbard reindeer, unlike their cousins elsewhere, do not live in herds and tend to be stationary, Ms. Pedersen said.
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This is the second largest protected area in Norway, and is the southernmost habitat for herds of wild reindeer.
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The wild horse herds need to be thinned for their own good lest they starve - so the argument goes.
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Pork prices soared 110% from a year earlier, as the African swine fever has ravaged the nation's pig herds.
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In some instances, farmers say, local officials have been slow or reluctant to acknowledge infections found in their herds.
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Trespassing pastoralists in Laikipia, who were brazenly grazing their herds on others' land, said they weren't necessarily targeting whites.
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In some instances, farmers say, local officials have been slow or reluctant to acknowledge infections found in their herds.
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Official data show only 1.2 million pigs, or less than 0.3 percent of the country's herds, have been culled.
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I grew up in a part of New Mexico where herds of cattle would just wander into our backyard.
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It also hastened the demise of the Plains Indians, as well as the bison herds on which they depended.
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In these forests, ancient elephant migratory paths are still used by some of the last #wild herds of Sumatran elephants.
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Modern elephants typically consist of herds of females and young elephants, with young elephants led by an experienced adult female.
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While some herds are recovering, a high rate of killing continues in many areas, such as Mozambique&aposs Niassa reserve.
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Ranchers and farmers trimmed their herds because of the recession, historically high feed costs, and drought in the Great Plains.
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It then lobbied local authorities to secure the routes and give pastoralists and their herds the right to pass through.
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Sidi, the cattle owner and farmer from Trarza, said he cannot imagine women joining him when he moves his herds.
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Back then, he said some ranchers to sold their herds and looked for jobs in the oil and gas industry.
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Bacterial colonies have been prodded into forming large-scale swirls and streams that seem to move like herds of animals.
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Torres remarked that separating the calves from their herds would make it easier for them to be transferred to zoos.
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Pork prices in China have been persistently high this year as African swine fever hit hog herds in the country.
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It ravaged cattle herds until the early 2000s and was linked to the brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
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Rains should also water pasture and refill reservoirs, helping cattle farmers in the world's No.3 beef exporter rebuild herds.
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According to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, the facility cares for their giraffe herd and the giraffe herds out in the wild.
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Demand for ivory and horns has principally come from China and Vietnam, which has decimated wild herds of the animals.
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Other studies have found that herds can increase their survival odds by clustering in ways that optimize potential escape routes.
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Standing in the way of herds are fields of maize, beans, peas and cassava, often trampled and eaten by elephants.
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As such, mammoth herds of young and female mammoths were likely led by an experienced adult female, the researchers said.
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Mr Zuberi envisions herds of wind turbines moving around the seas autonomously, grazing on winds which offer the most power.
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From Wednesday to Saturday of last week, trains plowed through reindeer herds, with one train killing 65 animals on Saturday.
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Bigger cattle herds and poultry flocks in recent years began to vie for retailer and consumer dollars, industry analysts said.
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Almost nine in 10 Ugandans are farmers, and the livestock owners in Karamoja depend entirely on their herds for survival.
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Meanwhile, China's overall soy imports are seen climbing in 2018, boosted by growing demand from the nation's massive livestock herds.
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As climate change brings more weather extremes, including droughts, pastoralists need better information to make good decisions about their herds.
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Other scientists, however, are convinced that growing herds of livestock, which produce methane-rich belches and manure—are to blame.
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Native American tribes survived on bison by following herds, and massacres of the animals helped push Indian cultures into collapse.
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China imports rapeseed to crush into meal to feed its vast herds of farm animals and to make vegetable oil.
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I have seen herds mourn their dead for days and be distressed when another is grounded by injury or hunger.
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There are two other herds of horses that live in the Outer Banks, but they're believed to have survived Dorian.
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Without population control, the herds double every five years until they overwhelm the land, destroy critical habitats and ultimately starve.
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While some farmers provide their dairy goat herds with access to pasture, the majority don't rely on pastures for nourishment.
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Corruption and chaos in many parts of Central Africa, where the last great elephant herds roam, are fueling the trafficking.
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In winter, his cattle herds will come here too and eat the residual corn, depositing natural fertilizer as they go.
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When large herds graze in unison, the effect is that of a many-tubed wind chime swaying in a breeze.
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Attempts to replenish the herds have proved challenging: Unlike cows or pigs, donkeys do not lend themselves to intensive breeding.
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Congress granted federal protection in 2700 to the remaining herds, which were nearly all on Bureau of Land Management land.
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That has hit crops and the herds of goats, camel, sheep and cattle that are the backbone of Somaliland's economy.
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Conservation efforts saved the sheep and have expanded their territory again, often by transplanting herds and greatly limiting hunting opportunities.
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There are valleys in the West where herds don't increase because they are kept in check by the big cats.
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As we all know, rivers and elk herds don't stop and turn around at the local bureau field office boundary.
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As herds migrate along the same route year after year, the supply of prions in the environment may keep increasing.
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Still, Dr. Zabel worries, the supply of prions in the environment someday might push many herds past a tipping point.
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Instead, they said they simply needed grass to keep their herds alive, because their own areas had already dried up.
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The gains were again fuelled by a surge in pork prices as African swine fever ravaged the country's hog herds.
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The gains were again fueled by a surge in pork prices as African swine fever ravaged the country's hog herds.
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The Great Pyrenees Rescue Montana says it sees these dogs left behind once herds are moved several times a year.
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Lions were no longer the only resident meat-eaters able to keep the burgeoning herds of grazing mammals in check.
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Cattle owners from nearly a million farms across all 50 states are required to send in their herds' population data.
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Other dishes they could prepare from their roving herds included sheep's cheese, and a lamb broth topped with chili oil.
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While we're at it, enough of the spectacle of HHS Secretaries and herds of congressmen caught up in insider trading schemes.
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"We can get a good idea of the size of the animals, if they travelled in herds, their speed," he said.
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Cattle herds are also recovering after years of drought reduced supplies, which had fallen to a 63-year low in 2014.
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To be sure, there are more animals to feed as U.S. livestock herds and poultry flocks are the biggest in years.
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The back of the property was wooded, and there were still several farms nearby, some with fairly large herds of cattle.
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Wet weather will also water pasture and refill reservoirs, helping cattle farmers in the world's No.3 beef export rebuild herds.
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They also possessed beaks and specialized teeth for grinding plant material, and are believed to have roamed the landscape in herds.
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Luckily for the herds of kids in the crowd, Chicago public schools had the day off for a teachers' development day.
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How are farmers and ranchers supposed to cut down on methane emissions, short of cutting down the size of their herds?
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They're also notable for their epic thousand-mile journeys every year in search of food, in herds of 260,22014 or more.
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The parched terrain is strictly no-entry to humans, though herds of long-horned cattle and spry ruminants still roam there.
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But Mike Brumm, a U.S. swine consultant, said "the truck wash itself could be the source of contamination" in infected herds.
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But Monday's rebound was too strong given that farmers have expanded herds to meet demand from new processing plants, traders said.
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These herds are led by a single matriarch, often the biggest and oldest female, who makes the decisions for the group.
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This involves stalking the herds with a fearsome-looking gas-powered dart gun, capable of hitting a horse from 21.2 yards.
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The Highland cow or "heilan coo" is one of the oldest herds of cattle in the world, dating back to 1885.
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In Botswana, herds cross the Chobe River to rich grazing islands daily from safe crossings that have been used for generations.
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Ranchers have expanded their cattle herds over the past year to take advantage of low prices for crops used as feed.
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Among the other finalists, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has been granted broader drone approval to monitor crops and livestock herds.
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"My boys always have guns in their hands," Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr. said, vowing to protect his herds of cattle.
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Them's Fightin' Herds' arrival on Steam late last month is the surprising conclusion of a daunting seven-year journey of fandom.
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Yes, women were in charge of cooking and cleaning, but they had herds separate from their husbands, giving them financial independence.
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Yes, women were in charge of cooking and cleaning, but they had herds separate from their husbands, giving them financial independence.
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Those of us who have explored the Arctic refuge treasure seeing grizzly bears, wolves, Dall sheep and thundering herds of caribou.
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But then the rains came, and after four or five years of normal rains, people living here could replenish their herds.
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The outbreak, which began in China last year, may have initially pushed down pork prices as farmers rushed to cull herds.
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They are fighting the latest challenge to their identity: Norway's insistence that they limit their herds to 75 to prevent overgrazing.
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It's for braving the cold of the Pacific, trekking through herds of tule elk and slurping barbecued oysters on Tomales Bay.
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Experts say mule deer can decline by up to 20 percent a year and localized extinction of some herds is possible.
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The dreaded swine fever, which through June had killed some 22 percent of China's pig herds, the major consumers of soybeans.
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Because where else would you live out your fall fantasies than among rows of apple trees, goat herds, and blackberry brambles?
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Chikadaya began hearing the rumors late last year that park authorities were rounding up breeding herds and capturing juveniles for export.
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Criminal organizations and poachers will then abandon the business, and Africa's elephant herds could recover for the first time in years.
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The social network fosters groupthink and too-cool, reflexive herds, and it conflates reality with the whims of extremely online crowds.
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There were no working-class herds, driven mad by News of the World naming names, involved in the making of this parable.
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Historically the Maasai would use deadly force to protect their herds, often heading out in revenge parties to hunt and kill lions.
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But the conference, held annually in November, is perhaps more sensitive to water, delays, and herds of bikes than your average gathering.
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Another complication is that the virus can survive in pork products for months, meaning it can be reintroduced into herds by accident.
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Chinese pork production will likely decline 10 percent due to the liquidation of hog herds, according to the agency's Foreign Agricultural Service.
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Despite many forecasting (hoping?) that herds of unicorns would enter the public market in 2016, the IPO market was lackluster at best.
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When his bus breaks down, he herds all of the passengers as far away from the nearby busy street as he can.
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There was probably not much interaction between these young herds and Diplodocus adults, because the mature sauropods preferred open meadows and fields.
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Future farrowing intentions were smaller than expected, suggesting hog producers may thin their herds following a five-year-long expansion, Nelson said.
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He said the situation back then led to a downsizing of herds and resulted in some farmers exiting the organic dairy market.
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They move like animals, sure, in herds and packs around the lush wilds of the game's forests, and they're built like animals.
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Herds soared due to European Union subsidies, under a system that critics say was poorly monitored and lacked any long-term planning.
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"I basically run an old folks home for horses," he said with a chuckle as he looked out at the grazing herds.
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It is a rural part of the country: Goats graze on the sides of the road, and herds of cattle block traffic.
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There are many other caribou around the polar region, among them the famous herds of tundra caribou that thunder across the Arctic.
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Recently, Horton realized she no longer saw herds of sheep roaming the region's fields, although the area is famous for its pecorino.
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The state farms have now all gone, replaced by big private ranches and small family-owned herds, which also still need cowboys.
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Since then, the virus has spread to pig herds in every mainland Chinese province, as well as to Vietnam, Cambodia and Mongolia.
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In Switzerland, where the herds are led to the high pastures in summer to graze, the drought has stranded cows without water.
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Bureau officials warn that the mustang herds are a looming catastrophe for the land, and there is no cheap or obvious solution.
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The piece, beautifully executed by writer John Branch, explores the paradox of using money from hunting fees to revive the dwindling herds.
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"Enough of the spectacle of HHS secretaries and herds of congressmen caught up in insider trading schemes," Warren said in the speech.
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Gnus have well-entrenched migratory patterns during dry seasons, during which they travel in large herds to find water and greener grasses.
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At one point, analysts said, ISIS even appeared to be trying to smuggle weapons strapped to the bellies of herds of sheep.
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The disease has reduced the country&aposs pig herds by over 40% due to mass culls designed to stop it spreading further.
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They often travel in groups of 30, but can swim in herds of 1,000 when they migrate, The New York Times reported.
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The USA had more than 22016,21 herds over a thousand in 2039, containing over half of cows, the country's agriculture department says.
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They were one of two existing herds of desert elephants known in the world, foraging far and wide in desperately barren conditions.
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The only way to avoid "ecological extinction," according to the WCS, is to "expand existing herds" and reintroduce bison to vast open territories.
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It points to breeding efforts to separate A13-rich individual cows into their own herds, which creates A2-rich and A2-only offspring.
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"At one point, government even bought out herds, however, we don't have the finances or the means to do that today," Zimmerman said.
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Over the 30 years following Escobar's death, herds have reportedly broken through the compound's fences into nearby waterways, such as the Magdalena River.
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Doundou was a former livestock farmer who had turned to militancy a decade ago to secure weapons to protect his increasingly large herds.
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The National Weather Service has forecast above-normal temperatures this month across the Plains and Midwest, home to large cattle and hog herds.
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They run in herds, drink from lakes, and many of the more peaceful creatures will leave you alone if you don't bother them.
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During Mozambique's bloody civil war from 1977 to 1992, giraffe and elephant herds in the Gorongosa national park shrank by more than 90%.
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But it can take poor farmers years to rebuild their herds, while fodder shortages can harm animal health and welfare for some time.
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Given the sacredness of cattle, the Bara go to great lengths to protect their herds, including consulting a clairvoyant known as an Ombiasy.
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Despite claims that the hybrid embryo could be created as soon as next year, the project is far from resurrecting herds of mammoths.
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Much of that decline is due to these kinds of retaliation killings because farmers have no non-lethal strategies for protecting their herds.
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The company "rents out herds of goats to clear weeds and help with fire suppression on private land and public property," KTVB reports.
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They bark loudly and go out with the herds... They say 'We are here, this is my flock' and the predators stay away.
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As they fatten herds to meet peak demand, a slump in retail prices and a spike in feed costs are grinding up profits.
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Higher costs of feed compound the headache for breeders like Guangdong Wens, the nation's largest, in the months before herds head for slaughter.
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Theoretically, The Walking Dead has a leg up here, because its universe is full of zombie herds that can attack at any moment.
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Others are the opposite, abundant with herds of strange and wonderful creatures, and rich with useful resources to help me on my journey.
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Since it is believed that 202,23 elephants are killed annually, this represents only a quarter of the yearly destruction of herds by humans.
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The deadly pig disease, currently ravaging herds across Asia, was also reported in Belgium last year, coming very close to the French border.
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Demand for U.S. beef has been strong recently and prices for feed grains have been low, prompting cattle ranchers to expand their herds.
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The ranch is famous because it's where the founder of one of South Korea's most successful corporations, Hyundai, keeps his herds of cattle.
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We bump our way past villagers on donkeys, herds of camels and goats, and long stretches where there is no one in sight.
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"People who visit can't believe there are cow herds here," Mr. Gavin said, "but they never thought about where the milk comes from."
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The six-night itinerary begins at Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge in Chobe National Park, known for its herds of elephants and lion prides.
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McDonald's works with companies that own live herds through the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, whose members include the National Cattleman's Beef Association.
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Ranchers around the region were scrambling to keep their herds safe from the snow and wind, which was particularly threatening to young calves.
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And on the anniversary of her appearance to Diego, herds of people travel to the basilica on foot carrying her banner or statute.
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Toward dusk, we found ourselves flying through an immense pasture, scattering herds of black cows and calves, the light running out behind us.
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Officials in mountain cities in particular have been hiring herds to hoover up overgrown vegetation, creating fire breaks around the edges of towns.
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He was the god of music, poetry, the sun, and keeper of the herds, as well as the one who could bring plagues.
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Cattle ranchers, many from distant parts of North America, parade their livestock to buyers from around the world looking to improve their herds.
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Managers say they need to keep the herds down so they don't destroy delicate native species habitat and threaten the livelihoods of ranchers.
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They roamed in large herds 66 to 80 million years ago, the study, which published this week in the journal Scientific Reports said.
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The USDA estimates that Chinese swine herds will decrease to 275 million pigs by the end of 2020, down almost 3753% since 2018.
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By the time the government admitted to the scale of the problem, China's pig herds had been decimated and pork prices had doubled.
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They are concerned that drilling would harm sensitive populations of migrating birds as well as caribou herds on which Gwich'in native people depend.
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In the past decade, as the summer ice has disappeared early, they have been forced onto beaches, where herds are easy to panic.
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It's the first step toward drilling into a pristine wilderness that's home to the world's largest caribou herds and flocks of migratory birds.
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Large supplies continue to limit hog prices after U.S. producers expanded their herds in recent years to supply new processing plants, analysts said.
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Today, taxing cattle herders, or stealing their herds altogether, has become one of the major resources that the various rebel groups fight over.
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Wisconsin lost 500 dairy farms in 2017 while the total number of milk-cow herds is down about 20 percent from five years ago.
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Because a new mathematical model posits that while they don't look it, cow herds may be extremely dynamic, secretly contentious gatherings of warring interests.
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At the time, mostly female antelopes of the Betpak-Dala population, the largest saiga group at the time, gathered in herds to give birth.
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The mechanical creatures are vastly more powerful than you, at least at the outset, and tend to group up as herds and work together.
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He said the decline is directly attributable to infected pigs dying and producers afraid of the disease and liquidating herds to salvage some value.
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Vermont land is great for raising cows, but less so for farming and feeding the mega-herds that thrive in the Midwest and California.
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The frequency of outbreaks in the region has intensified concerns that the highly contagious disease is spreading fast among the world's largest pig herds.
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If not citing the economic benefits (which some studies claim are overstated), hunters argue animals are old, or have a negative impact on herds.
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The government is hiring dozens of goat herds nationwide to guard against a repeat of last year&aposs catastrophic wildfires, which killed 106 people.
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Hope for the future They are shipped out the same day, pioneer herds on their way to their new home in Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.
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Cheaper feed grain prices, including a 60 percent plunge for corn since 2012, also convinced farmers to increase their herds, according to federal data.
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But farmed areas also are expanding, leaving far less open grazing land available for pastoralists, and leading to herds more frequently straying into crops.
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Panthera is helping ranchers in the Pantanal install anti-predation measures, like special enclosures and electric fences, to protect their herds from jaguar attacks.
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"This spring festival (Lunar New Year), farmers can still get a relatively good price for their herds, but maybe not next year," said Soozhu.
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" The statement also offers such pearls of folksy wisdom as, "Nothing is more foolish than dropping a hunting gun before herds of ferocious wolves.
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It is not "remote" to the large human population that pushes ever deeper into central Asia's high valleys seeking grazing land for their herds.
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The kids run past the lady with the monkey, past herds of buffalo, past other children playing on bikes or in the rice fields.
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Other observers have projected a steeper fall in Chinese pork production as herds are culled and given suspicions that cases are being under-reported.
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China is the world's top soybean buyer and imports 60 percent of the oilseed traded worldwide to make meal for its massive livestock herds.
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There were regular streams showing off work on the game, and it was never in doubt Them's Fightin' Herds was working towards a release.
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We don't know how common this is because it's hard to track, though usually it's herds of 10 or 20 animals that get killed.
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My colleagues and I have tracked herds that travel a hundred miles or more each year, struggling across snowbound mountain ranges and raging rivers.
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October rains draw herds of wildebeest and zebra to the Liuwa Plain, where travelers will stay in the new six-villa King Lewanika Lodge.
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Myriad herds of bison used to inhabit the region but the species was hunted almost to extinction by the end of the 85033th century.
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Among the goods are frozen pork, which the country needs because its pig herds have been devastated by a deadly epidemic of swine fever.
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Between 1.4 million and 850,000 years ago, they may have hunted herds of caribou or feasted on the remains of mammoths, according to researchers.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - With prices for U.S. livestock on the decline due to larger cattle and hog herds, meat processors are jumping on the jerky bandwagon.
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We manage to wriggle through the herds of people and I set eyes on some of the richest, most glorious looking donuts I've ever seen.
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"It will in future be easier to protect herds from repeated attacks but the wolf remains a strongly protected animal," said Environment Minister Svenja Schulze.
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With no other source of income to support his second wife and six children, he herds other people's sheep and takes payment in milk products.
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I agree that the handling of the Whisperers, those chatty walkers who seem to have mystical control over large zombie herds, is really well done.
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Technology that reduces the uncertainties associated with the journeys can help protect herds and incomes, making families more resilient to the harsher conditions, experts say.
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If the ruminants move like wild buffalo, in dense herds, never staying in one place for too long, the land benefits from the momentary disturbance.
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Ever-growing herds of volatility sellers and investors looking to buy the dip have quashed each instance of higher volatility over the last few years.
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Farmers grew their herds, bolstered by record numbers of baby pigs, to feed four new packing plants that came online since late 2017, said analysts.
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I keep it on the low end, $15 to $20 for a 30 minute walk for one to two dogs (no mini-herds for me).
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These animals used to roam South Africa in vast herds, but European settlers fixed the beasts in their sights, killing them at an alarming rate.
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Analysts expect pork prices to remain under pressure well beyond the new year holiday as meat supplies grow, with farmers replenishing herds and imports rising.
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Dairy farmers in both Vermont and Texas have suffered from record-high feed prices to feed their herds as they compete with the ethanol mandate.
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For decades the bureau used helicopter roundups to thin herds, but it can now barely afford that because it spends so much on storing horses.
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With respect to big game herds, a BLM document said impacts are not expected to go beyond those reflected in prior regional land use plans.
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Yet we don't often hear from Peruvian shepherds who tend the herds of the Great Basin, or Mixtec fieldworkers who tend lettuce and pick apples.
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For millennia, the Dene people lived as nomads, tracking vast herds across the Sahtú and harvesting the itinerant animals for their meat, skin, and bones.
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Oddly, the Supreme Court's ruling claimed that there would be a place for their herds to graze — though the government had already acknowledged the opposite.
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Swine flu has sharply reduced pig herds, leading pork prices to soar nearly 70 percent and overall inflation to increase the most in six years.
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Thousands upon thousands of fans had pitched tents by the side of the road or slept in cars and parked campers amid herds of cows.
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The glut is due to an expansion in cow herds, pork production and poultry production, which came in response to strong foreign demand, Bacus said.
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U.S. ramped up herds in anticipation of more demand, with processors slaughtering about 1 million more pigs per week than a year ago, per Reuters.
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Stuck in a holding pen A vast park on Zimbabwe's westernmost frontier, Hwange is one of the continent's best spots for seeing giant elephant herds.
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It is not clear where the rest of the country's vanished herds went, but food experts say many were likely butchered and turned into food.
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About New York The windows of the gallery and the floors of its aisles are lined with animals, in herds and singly. Lions. Giraffes. Monkeys.
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The herds struggle to find enough food to survive the winter as a result, with some females even aborting their calves from lack of food.
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Staying there is like having a savanna in your backyard because you see herds of free roaming animals, like giraffes and zebras, from your room.
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The traditional way of life herding reindeer is under pressure, as rising temperatures threaten the size of the herds and cause financial woes, they said.
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The area is abundant year-round with zebras, wildcats, giraffes and elephants, including herds of wildebeests that migrate past the camp from November to March.
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Pastoralists are an integral part of India's history, receiving royal patronage and welcomed by farmers because their herds of sheep and cattle would fertilize their land.
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BSE was first detected in Britain in the late 1980s, spreading from there to other parts of Europe and ravaging cattle herds until the early 2000s.
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Yes, with the help of a biologist, mathematicians calculated the fascinating dynamics of cow herds, and yes, they reported it today in a journal called Chaos.
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When the herds on the Great Plains had been almost destroyed, a new herd was started in Oklahoma, with animals shipped by rail from the zoo.
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Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world's pork supply as a deadly virus ravages Asia's pig herds, killing millions of pigs.
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" In a statement Friday night, Zinke said that he had discussed the issue with Trump and they "both believe that conservation and healthy herds are critical.
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The disease kills up to 70% of the herds of sheep or goats it infects, animals vital to the survival of many of Africa's poorest people.
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Before the track is laid, experts will examine evidence of prehistoric reindeer herds in Buckinghamshire, Roman villages in Northamptonshire and airfields from the second world war.
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Local Yakkers shows little profile thumbnails of up to 100 people close by atop your home tab and in the new Explore tab (renamed from Herds).
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Earlier this year herds of livestock, reckoned at one point to number as many as 100,000 cattle, invaded private land in the Laikipia region of Kenya.
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The plan includes the testing of "high-risk animals," such as sick or dead pigs as well as herds exposed to feral swine or garbage eating.
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Straight out of Black Mirror, this video is a mock documentary showing a future where Boston Dynamics SpotMinis roam the Earth in packs (herds?) of thousands.
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There are herds of peaceful creatures — some feathery deer-like animals, others more like dog-sized lizards — and they don't seem to even notice my presence.
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But the Innu of Ekuanitshit in Quebec last year lost their bid to stop the Muskrat Falls hydropower project, which they say will affect caribou herds.
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"If the policy remains the same, lots of breeding herds will be slaughtered in the north because farmers don't want to continue raising pigs," said Pan.
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Along the way, various herds have produced "characters" — helpful librarians, for example, or "weathermen" who post the day's weather along with what to wear, for example.
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Prior to the 1960s, ranchers in the southern U.S. were locked in a constant struggle with the deadly screwworm fly, which could destroy entire cattle herds.
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Overproduction and failing export markets since 2014 have wiped out dairy farms across the U.S. Wisconsin has 8,000 dairy herds — down 40% from 10 years ago.
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Droughts regularly decimate herds across Africa, forcing destitute families to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and settle in remote, dusty towns where they fall deeper into poverty.
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"Neighbors and friends later told him that, "During heavy rains, the water can rise in the low-lying areas and push the herds to higher ground.
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There's ample places to sit outside, enjoy the erratic San Francisco weather, and watch the herds of people rush by — all while listening to live music.
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I'm terrified of what people in herds or groups feel justified in doing to individuals in order to sate whatever deep curiosity they have about them.
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In situ extraction still impacts wildlife, such as caribou herds, and it takes more energy — and generates more greenhouse gases — to extract oil compared to mining.
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That's why, Mr. Sara says, he has refused to abide by Norwegian laws, passed more than a decade ago, that limit the size of reindeer herds.
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Ethiopia officials, meanwhile, are reporting that the drought — which has caused crop failures and decimated livestock herds — is even worse than 1984, according to the FAO.
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He had planned to subsist on grass, he said, but because the area was heavily populated by herds of sheep and goats, there was little available.
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We weren't animal people when we moved to Lancaster County, even though we'd landed ourselves amongst Amish and Mennonite neighbors whose lives revolved around their herds.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's north is forecast to receive above average rainfall over the next three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, boosting cattle herds.
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Whatever its provenance, the swarm seems sure to come into play somehow — we all know what Chekhov said about zombie herds hanging out on the highway.
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" By incorporating American know-how abroad, he added, "we could feed everyone in the developing world with one-quarter of the current global herds and flocks.
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Suzanne Roy is executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy organization dedicated to preserving wild horses and burros in viable free-roaming herds.
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"Up until a decade ago, Bactrian camels were the norm," said a 2017 study on Kazakhstan's camel herds, published in the Journal of Arid Land Studies.
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The Arctic Refuge is home to caribou herds, polar bears, muskox, gray wolves, and numerous other nationally significant animal and plant species unique to the region.
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But weaker hog prices in March, and the potential of increased feed costs, could make farmers think twice about expanding their herds in the coming months.
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This is the decade that the lower 48 states lost its last caribou, and that herds farther north in Canada have been shrinking by the millions.
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Today, big herds are kept in well-planned spaces, monitored on all kinds of metrics, using all kinds of tools, even thermometers, step counters, and CCTV.
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To get to the restaurant, I drove for miles down windy canyon roads, past lush green fields, herds of cows, and brooks that were literally babbling.
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He relishes being the center of attention as he herds potential cabinet picks past a gallery of cameras at Trump Tower or his New Jersey golf resort.
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Some ranchers in parched areas of the Central Plains and Southern regions have relocated cattle herds to lands with greener pastures or where water is more available.
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Today, this area is popular among hikers looking to snap photographs of grassy, narrow ridgelines, waves crashing onto rocky beaches, and herds of sheep munching on seaweed.
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But demand for the oilseed is under pressure as an epidemic of incurable African swine fever spreads across China, killing pigs and stopping farmers from replenishing herds.
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Food shortages have haunted rural communities for some time, and cattle raiding — where armed men steal entire herds from nearby villages and towns — is a regular occurrence.
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Industry insiders say outbreaks are going unreported, either because local authorities cannot pay farmers forced to cull their herds, or because they fear punishment from higher-ups.
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Drone footage gives you a good glimpse of their migrations from the sky, so you can observe as herds of animals run across their sprawling, unspoiled terrain.
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"The fact that these herds are declining shouldn't be a shock — they do it all the time," Russell said by phone from the Yukon territory in Canada.
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China, the world's largest pork consumer, is expected to increase total imports because an outbreak of the fatal hog disease African swine fever is reducing its herds.
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The Chinese government boasts that relinquishing the nomadic lifestyle represents "enormous strides towards modernity" and refers to the annual migration of pastoralists' herds as a dangerous "ordeal".
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As part of his retirement package, the New York Times reports, Knickers will serve as a coach for other cows and steers, helping to direct Pearson's herds.
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Some of those investors lost houses and herds of cattle when they sold their possessions to get a 300 percent return on their investment in 90 days.
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Fearful of targeting, Indian dairy farmers — who have helped build the world's largest dairy industry, worth $83 billion — have little incentive to grow their herds, per Bloomberg.
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Last month the agriculture ministry urged farmers to quickly replenish their herds as concerns grew that prices will rise rapidly in the second half of the year.
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China's factories will pick up the pace once inventories have been whittled down as farmers seek more meal to fatten herds ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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" However, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a statement Friday night: "President Trump and I have talked and both believe that conservation and healthy herds are critical.
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A more protracted drought, combined with a weaker exchange rate and restocking of herds, may keep food price inflation elevated for a longer period than currently forecast.
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The landscape of Kamchatka Peninsula steams with sulfurous vapor, its 29 active volcanoes forming a hazy backdrop for the region's herds of reindeer and rivers of salmon.
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Meanwhile, the wild-horse population is on course to double every four years (the NAS found little evidence that wolves or mountain lions keep herds in check).
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Large supplies are looming over cattle markets, after U.S. ranchers expanded their herds to take advantage of low prices for feed grains and strong demand for beef.
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As the BLM lagged in implementing population management tools and allowed herds to swell, calls for lethal options have grown increasingly loud, cloaked as a necessary evil.
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While climate change isn't the only factor likely behind the decline in these herds, it is a driving force for a number of threats the animals face.
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Herds of construction cranes swing above the harbor, and entire neighborhoods like the futuristic Barcode district — a row of distinctive side-by-side high-rises — have sprouted.
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It has ravaged deer herds throughout the United States and Canada and forced the killing of thousands of infected animals in 24 states and three Canadian provinces.
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"It is a hub of sorts, a trading post they pass through two times a year, as they take their herds northwards and then southwards," Vasiliev explained.
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Late-night crowds on Oxford Street, which, when among them no sane person could love, were beautiful from above in the way that migrating herds are beautiful.
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But their way of life is being threatened by climate change, as shifting weather patterns are affecting the reindeer herds' food supply, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
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He also chases away addicts trying to steal a grave railing, or shepherd boys whose herds stumble on the graves — pelting them with rocks and cursing them.
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The babies most likely lived in forests in age-segregated herds, which could protect them both from predators and from being trampled by their own gigantic parents.
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Or supplement the northern lights with a cultural excursion for an introduction to Sapmi, the traditional land of the indigenous Sami people and their roaming reindeer herds.
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But the current theory is that they were elaborate funnels for trapping herds of wild gazelle and similar animals — as many as a hundred at a time.
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They keep their herds hundreds of kilometres from the wild ones, but scientists, who are unsure of the transmission mechanism, worry that the disease could make the jump.
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In dairy herds calves are typically taken from their mothers within 24 hours, compared with the nine months to a year they would suckle if left to themselves.
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Suspected African swine fever outbreak was discovered on Wednesday in a pig farm with 383 pig herds in Shenbei New district in Shenyang city, capital of Liaoning province.
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Details: People from around the country who own herds of llamas regularly travel long distances to participate in shows like this one, sponsored by the International Lama Registry.
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The researchers hope that their technique, described today in the journal Cell, will be used in the future to create herds of genetically identical macaques for medical research.
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Most of the firm's profit comes from raising pigs, prices of which came under pressure last year as farmers sold off herds to comply with tighter environmental rules.
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Credit: Gudkov Andrey/Shutterstock On the surface, herds of zebras roaming the Serengeti don't seem to have much in common with the number of cells in our bodies.
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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds," wrote the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay in 223 in his book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds".
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Here's how I'd class your books and words by flocks and herds in the animal kingdom: a dazzle of zebras, crash of rhinos, and a murder of crows.
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Whole herds sedated, moved The translocation of elephants takes months to plan, but each capture takes just minutes, everything done to minimize risk to both human and beast.
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I was disappointed not to see any llamas or alpacas on our trip, but we did see several herds of guanacos, the wild cousins of the domesticated llama.
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They will talk about the elephants' confined isolation on the road — chained misery for sensitive creatures that, in the wild, roam widely and live sociably in family herds.
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Walking down Second Avenue, past neon honky-tonks playing bro-country and Cash and herds of squealing pink bachelorette parties—someone yelled Nigger-lover at my husband. Again.
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"If pig farmers are now switching to proper corn and soybean meal feed when they are restocking their herds it would be supportive of meal demand," said Friedrichs.
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But Lancaster added that a strong recovery in the price farmers are paid for their milk could mean they are able to maintain the size of dairy herds.
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The United States is free of the disease, and anxious to keep it that way because infections in U.S. herds would likely kill hogs and limit pork exports.
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The biggest perk of a stay, however, may be the wildlife viewing: guests can expect to see herds of elephants and the rare sable antelope among other animals.
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Etched with lines that resembled outlines of buffalos, the rocks were sacred to the Blackfoot and other plains Indians, who used them to draw buffalo herds over cliffs.
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The road to her residence is currently under construction; I have to hike a mile in, past an enchanting river and herds of yaks to pay my respects.
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Rather than rounding up, corralling, and killing wild herds, the BLM should allow wild horses to remain wild and go after the industry that is actually depleting resources.
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It wouldn't be until September 2015, a year and a half after hearing from Faust, that Mane6 would formally introduce Them's Fightin' Herds, aka Fighting Is Magic 2.0.
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Many ranchers have not yet been able to return to their land but those who did have seen the loss of herds and destruction of fencing, officials said.
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In the United States, people oftentimes think about tribes chasing buffalo, or following the herds, while on the other side the Meso-Americans were building civilizations and empires.
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And in 1210, the famous Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London was established so that members of the court could be amused by herds of odd beasts.
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The U.S. pork industry depends on export markets to consume extra supplies after American farmers expanded hog herds in recent years and meat companies built new processing plants.
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Unlike the winter, wildlife is replete in ski destinations come summer and fall, with high chances of spotting herds of antelope, bison, moose, elk, deer and big horn.
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Discuss.) The production makes this explicit toward the end when Botard (Alec Leyzer Burko), Berenger's colleague, looks out at the herds below and begins to envy their power.
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Roving packs of wild-eyed tweens hunted in herds for "holy grails" and additions to their "congas," or Rockette-like lineups of identical Breyer molds in different colors.
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Absent the cattle industry land grab, the thinning of the herds can be accomplished in a cost-effective and humane way by the use of PZP birth control.
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I've spent years researching ancient sports and I'd come to understand that the entire history of distance running could be summed up in three words: Packs against herds.
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While their heft may prevent them from galloping for long periods of time, elands have excellent jumping abilities and are strong enough to fend off predators in herds.
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For countless generations, the Inuit of the Nunavik region in northern Quebec lived as nomads, traveling across the wind-battered landscape to follow the herds they hunted seasonally.
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In Afghanistan, with its rural and agrarian economy, civilians who are engaged in food-gathering, woodcutting, farming or tending herds are often near or beside concentrations of militants.
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The program wasn't perfect, but the B.L.M. was able to keep the herds' numbers in check while ensuring that the ranges were viable and healthy year after year.
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Migrating in vast herds, for millennia the largest creatures on the continent shaped the rugged landscape around them and provided sustenance for the Native Americans who hunted them.
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Supplies have swelled after hog farmers expanded their herds in recent years and processors built new processing plants to turn hogs into bacon, pork chops and other products.
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As a result of regional development, herds of displaced elephants have begun tearing into palm plantations at the edge of the village, damaging the crops and terrifying locals.
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Iowa State University agricultural economist Dermot Hayes said he expects China will import about 4 million to 6 million tonnes of pork in 2020, following losses in Chinese herds.
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It's a place where herds of robotic horses graze alongside roads, and the remnants of a long-gone futuristic society deep beneath the ground are waiting to be trespassed.
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Early on, you'll mostly be clearing out small groups of zombies, but eventually, you'll come up against what are called hordes, which are essentially vast herds of murderous monsters.
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China crushes soybeans to produce soymeal which is fed to its massive livestock herds but an ongoing African swine fever epidemic in China has also dampened demand for feed.
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Since 2011, Matsubara has documented both the relationship six farmers have with their surviving herds as well as an ongoing study examining the effects radiation has on large mammals.
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By 1900, out of a population once estimated at as many as 60 million animals, as few as 700 bison remained in private herds, and only 23 at Yellowstone.
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Chasing sheep The pastoral British countryside is chock-full of quaint windmills and herds of grazing sheep that get more and less fluffy with the changing of the seasons.
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It's part of a natural cycle: Herds can go from numbers in the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands in just a few decades, and then rebound.
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Real lion kings hunt the youngest and weakest members of herds, occasionally kill cubs to ensure their own mating rights and aren't as monogamous as Simba appears to be.
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On Wednesday last week, the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council revealed that pig herds in the United States receive almost as many antibiotics as people in this country do.
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"This could occur again, but in the current environment, increased rainfall in Australia will also likely have an impact on the restocking of cattle and sheep herds," SocGen said.
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During the recent monsoon season, elephant herds crossed the nearby Peechi reservoir and raided the neighboring villages of Kalladik, Thekkumpadu and Poolachode, trampling plantain trees and destroying villagers' huts.
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The researchers also measured gas output at sites surrounding the herds, and kept tabs on cows with GPS trackers to create more accurate models of cattle and emissions dispersal.
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Over the past six months the camp has swelled as one of the worst droughts in decades has decimated herds, dried up pasture and made even drinking water scarce.
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So the old wounds have been hard to heal, and the herds flocking to the speedway on race mornings have been thinned by more than the loss of Davidson.
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They were not fast enough, however, to outrun bullets, and their extraordinary size and tendency to travel in herds made them easy targets for hunters during the 19th century.
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That will drive up global pork prices, they say, although most could not provide estimates, citing China's lack of transparency or ability in providing accurate numbers of pig herds.
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A branch of the Chisholm Trail, which the cattle herds followed northward from Texas after the Civil War, crossed the Cimarron River not far from present-day Highway 2005.
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The report comes as African swine fever, usually fatal to pigs but not harmful to people, spreads through China's southern provinces after ravaging herds in the north last year.
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As famine and war drove their brethren to extinction, the herds within the fences survived as the exclusive possessions of royals and nobility, hunted for sport by invitation only.
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For both the pronghorn and mule deer migrations, the National Geographic photographer Joe Riis located the trails and followed the herds through seasons and years to tell the story.
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Between the Moroccan border and the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, there were occasional checkpoints where police waved us through, and random herds of goats or camels crossing the road.
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Farmers have turned to the country's helicopter association and the Swiss Air Force to transport tens of thousands of gallons of water every week to keep the herds alive.
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Without fences to stop them, their herds mingle amid the low bushes between the two homesteads, whipped by a hot and dusty desert wind here in ancestral Wayuu territory.
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Whatever the actual figure, the impact on residents is real: rising costs, housing shortages, increased traffic and herds of construction cranes — even the Space Needle has been under renovation.
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Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the South and Southeastern parts of the United States on Wednesday.
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But hunting advocates say the big game trade can save elephants and other endangered species when profits are used to responsibly manage herds in ways that increase animal populations.
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And "there are large herds of elephants in the jungles in this region and now they keep coming into villages more often, looking for water and food," he said.
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Hog herds in China have been severely hit by African Swine Fever since last year, which have disrupted supplies of the staple meat in the world's largest pork consumer.
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If all of those mountain lions had lived, and killed three horses each in 2014, they could have halted nearly all of the growth of horse herds that year.
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The ivory trade has been abetted by pervasive corruption, extreme poverty and the presence of armed groups in many areas of Africa where the last great elephant herds roam.
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Scotland's beautiful countryside is home to herds of different farm animals that you'd expect to find grazing on some rolling green pastures — not stampeding through your tiny back garden.
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The herds of elk, mule deer and antelope would simply not survive without the winter range of the RGDN and the wildlife numbers have been increasing since the designation.
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It's a heartbreaking sight for animal lovers to behold — cell blocks full of young elephants behind bars, distanced from their herds and awaiting a life of exploitation by humans.
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Iowa State University agricultural economist Dermot Hayes said he expects China will import about 4 million to 6 million tonnes of pork in 2020, following losses in Chinese herds.
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And when you've got vast herds of these mammals, roaming across one of the driest parts of the earth, it makes sense to use their produce in everyone's diet.
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No change to text.) * Disease has spread to 50 countries, decimating herds * China hit hardest as the world's largest pork producer * OIE chief sees virus spreading further in Asia within months PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - African swine fever will spread further across Asia where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.
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The individual sheep in these massive herds appear to be zig-zagging left and right as they're coerced to move from one hillside paddock to another in Rangitikei, New Zealand.
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Each cow needs at least 10 acres of land to be healthy, Evans said, but the large herds of cattle kept by pastoralists was leading to depletion of grazing land.
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For centuries, nomadic herders in Mauritania and across the Sahel, a vast dry region in northwestern Africa, have moved hundreds of miles every year to find pasture for their herds.
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China's southwestern province of Sichuan, the country's top pig-farming province, is removing some restrictions on hog production to stabilize supply after an epidemic of African swine fever reduced herds.
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Around $22.5 billion of that will go to livestock as ranchers try to recover their cattle herds, the society, which represent medium- to large-scale producers, said in a statement.
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The loss of family herds due to drought, disease, conflict or theft often leaves the herders with little choice but to offer their services to others more powerful than themselves.
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If it works, the project could bring back herds of northern whites that used to roam the grasslands of east and central Africa, where they were poached for their horns.
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They have also made a deal allowing pastoralists to feed their herds on rice husks that would normally be discarded after harvesting, for a small fee to the village government.
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Related: Herds of Sheep Are Invading Times Square Billboards A Moving Painting Turns Times Square into a Psychedelic Canvas Here's Why an Artist Is Drowning in Times Square This Month
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In recent years, pastures in the north-east, where the Fulani would graze their herds, have beenabandoned toBoko Haram, whose members steal any animals they can lay their hands on.
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In it, buffalo herds pound through the warm terrain, contrasting with the cornflower-blue skies, building a powerful image of a landscape being expanded through its place in our consciousness.
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CHICAGO, Aug 25.30 (Reuters) - U.S. hog farms devastated by a swine virus three years ago have rebuilt their herds to record levels, an accomplishment that has brought equally formidable problems.
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And, further north in Yukon, they will visit Carcross – which was originally a hunting camp and received the name because caribou herds would cross the narrow land between two lakes.
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"We believe that IT has nothing to do with math and physics… it is more artistic than scientific," says Nicolas Sadirac, as he cheerfully slaughters whole herds of sacred cows.
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Fulani chiefs living deep inside the Plateau claim that they are provoked by farmers who steal their herds—a serious crime in a culture where wealth is measured in livestock.
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Coldiretti said the gangsters made money in numerous ways, including by counterfeiting prized products like virgin olive oil and buffalo mozzarella to stealing entire herds of animals and whole crops.
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A modern take on the Razor models of your childhood, herds of dockless electric scooters took sidewalks by storm last fall as a hip, eco-friendly alternative to public transportation.
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The expense eats up 66 percent of the federal budget for managing wild horses, and it is expected to total more than $1 billion over the life of the herds.
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BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) - China will encourage the restocking of hog herds, and strengthen the production of poultry, beef and mutton, to increase meat supplies, the cabinet said on Wednesday.
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For the Europeans, the crisp bank notes come from giant coupes: Take an SUV, subtract some practicality, add a dose of style and a few cow herds' worth of leather.
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The largest grassland fire in Texas' history, in fact, began just two miles west of Marfa in 212, destroying dozens of homes in the region and killing herds of cattle.
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One solution, rarely discussed by politicians, would be to reduce the number of livestock owned by wealthy, urban elites, who keep vast herds on northern lands as a status symbol.
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The company's Pig Zero brochures encouraged farmers to give antibiotics to every pig in their herds rather than waiting to treat a disease outbreak caused by an unknown Patient Zero.
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Five years ago, there were 2002 dairy herds in La Crosse County, where Creamery Creek Holsteins, the farm named for the stream that runs through it, sprawls across 2100,212 acres.
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This country will never get back the "immense herds of buffalo, elk, deer and antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture" witnessed with awe by Meriwether Lewis in 1805.
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We would go up in the mountains with herds of sheep and goats and cows, and make yogurt and cheese, and then come back in the winter to the village.
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At the same time high heat and droughts were plaguing European dairy lands, in Australia and New Zealand, where herds typically would have filled the milk gap, sizzling weather lingered.
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The slaughter shows that despite all the time, money and energy poured into anti-poaching operations in recent years, organized poaching gangs can still wipe out large herds with impunity.
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"Enough of the spectacle of HHS secretaries and herds of congressmen caught up in insider trading schemes," Warren said at a National Press Club speech in 2018 unveiling her legislation.
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The lungs of early humans also may have been irritated by the high levels of pollen and particles of fecal matter produced by the savanna's vast herds of grazing animals.
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Today, the bureau uses the PZP vaccine, a type of birth control administered by a dart injection, on an extremely limited basis to manage horse herds in several management areas.
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In contrast, consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in almost eight years, driven mostly by a surge in pork prices as African Swine Fever ravaged the country's hog herds.
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In the middle are the floodplains, cycling seasonally between deluge and drainage, and turning tuxedo-black with concentrated nutrients on which vegetation can bloom and herds of herbivores can fatten.
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Crop-raiding and problem elephants are often part of family herds or young males, and hunters usually pursue the biggest bulls that often roam far from people in the deep bush.
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Using everything from microphones, accelerometers, and GPS trackers to temperature, glucose, and skin conductivity sensors, farmers can now track and monitor their flocks and herds with the flick of a finger.
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Meanwhile, falling demand for animal feed ingredient soymeal as Africa swine fever spreads through many of China's pig herds will likely dampen the nation's appetite for soybeans over the longer term.
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For now, though, Ivan has to live at the farm with his friends, since alpacas are happiest in herds and will quite literally die of loneliness without an alpaca friend nearby.
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Retail U.S. beef prices declined seven months in a row till December as healthy pastures, cheaper corn and record high cattle prices a year ago encouraged ranchers to bolster their herds.
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"There was this narrative that you had these ominous herds of Arabs, you know, refugees infiltrating Europe and infiltrating the West, and I wanted to tell the story differently," she says.
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In the lee of the snow-covered Wind River Mountains, it is a New World Eden, an expanse of yellow and green dotted with distant herds of pronghorn and wild horses.
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The storm first moved into parts of the Rocky Mountains and northern Plains on Thursday, forcing cattle ranchers in South Dakota to move their herds closer to food and water sources.
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Herds, which include anywhere from dozens to thousands of animals, can see as much as 20% growth in a single year, and can double in size in just a few years.
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Drier weather will also be a blow for Australian cattle farmers attempting to rebuild their herds after the worst El Nino in nearly in 20 years which ended early last year.
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According to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports, there may be a tiny grain of truth to this vision of age-segregated herds—minus the talking dinosaurs and interspecies friendships.
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They know all the best spots and can help you get a real feel for a place that you just won't get by traveling around in herds of other tourists. 66.
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They cannot follow caribou herds across the border for subsistence hunting, he said, and U.S. resident Gwitchin without passports or with criminal records for infractions like drunk driving cannot enter Canada.
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It hadn't been seen in Britain since 1968, but then in 2001, it descended upon the country's cattle herds, forcing the destruction of more than six million cows, pigs and sheep.
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I drove to the first (you can also hike) and was the only soul up there, taking in the scenery of both herds of cows and Alpine golfers on the slopes.
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In an authoritative 2017 study, scientists traced the genetic lineage of the Brucella bacteria in 27 cattle herds infected around Yellowstone since 1998 and found bison not guilty on all counts.
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No longer limited to raiding each other's villages and herds, these bands of well-armed tribal fighters have carried out massacres and atrocities, with women and children increasingly among the victims.
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On the edge of the wild horse range in Challis in central Idaho, Jackie Ingram, a rancher, has shared 168,700 acres of public land with the mustang herds for 46 years.
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He was only about thirty-seven years old, yet he had seen the world of his childhood—a powerful and independent people living amid teeming herds of buffalo—all but disappear.
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That seems odd considering that in addition to elephants, Addo also has more than 200 black rhino, the rarest rhino species, as well as Cape buffalo herds and other endangered species.
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As people moved to cities, vast areas where farms once broke up tracts of forest and herds of domestic animals chewed the underbrush low, have reverted to forests thick with brush.
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In 2000, when the convention allowed a controversial auction of ivory stockpiles amid signs that the herds in Africa were recovering somewhat, China bought 2225 tons, while Japan bought nearly 2000.
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Late last month the federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the management of wild horses on its vast land holdings, gave Congress a range of options for cutting the herds.
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Democrats and environmentalists deplore the prospect of development in ANWR, home to polar and grizzly bears, 200 species of birds, and where Gwich'in natives depend on migrating herds of porcupine caribou.
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Adult males travel alone, Professor McGlone said, but juvenile males sometimes travel in pairs, and adult females travel in herds with one another and their young, sometimes numbering up to 50.
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No change to text.) * Disease has spread to 50 countries, decimating herds * China hit hardest as the world's largest pork producer * OIE chief sees virus spreading further in Asia within months By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - African swine fever will spread further across Asia where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.
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Cave paintings discovered in Altay - today home to a mixture of ethnic Tuvans and Kazakhs - show rows of figures standing on what look like skis, with herds of animals running below them.
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Thanks to relaxed rules, quadcopters will soon be running safety checks at airports, delivering defibrillators around Reno, Nevada, helping the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma keep an eye on livestock herds, and more.
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Women and children used to join men on their travels, according to local people, but as the trips with the herds got longer and riskier they were told to stay at home.
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Imported food products may generate waste that could contaminate commercial herds and the food chain, he said, saying that airports are a point of entry for animal diseases including African swine fever.
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The measures reflect urgent efforts to protect herds, which can be infected through direct contact with other animals, contaminated food and from people who have visited countries where the virus is present.
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"To be honest, this whole 'herds of white nationalists and Russian bots,' it was just not foreseeable when they were founding the company and setting the rules of the game," Wihbey said.
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Warmer summers have also meant that diseases, long locked in the Arctic permafrost, may thaw and spread among herds, though scientists aren't completely sure how much of an impact this is having.
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The inspiration for the iCow strategy came while Jordan was based in a village in Botswana, when two lionesses were killed by local farmers in retaliation for preying on their cattle herds.
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But eight smallhold farmers with herds ranging from 50 to 15,000 located in Beijing and rural parts of Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan provinces interviewed by Reuters say they worry about the future.
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To prepare for the worst, we teach farmers about varying the size of herds depending on availability of water and pasture, and taking full advantage of the seasonal rains to preserve hay.
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The camera still captures life on a grand scale: Wildebeest herds are still enormous, penguin colonies stretch as far as the eye can see, millions upon millions of ants inhabit jungle floors.
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Many Westerners vehemently oppose the federal authority represented by the Endangered Species Act; some ranchers say bears are preying on their herds more frequently, and some hunters are eager for a trophy.
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The reckless development has contributed to the decline of one of the country's largest mule deer herds, which dropped from more than 100,000 mules at one point to current estimates of 30,000.
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Or it might be a fear that the giant herds of investors now passively following securities indexes have created a momentum that will take us all over unknown cliffs in the future.
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A. Yes, though many of the surviving wild species do not look much like the dairy cows in a Grandma Moses landscape or the herds of beef cattle on a Western ranch.
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She said it could even pose a threat to the conservation model supported by many pro-hunting groups, which believe that big-game hunting benefits endangered herds through the revenue it generates.
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North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park is one of the state's most picturesque natural landscapes, and it's home to herds of bison, or buffalo, among other creatures like bobcats, beavers, and longhorns.
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While other programs are not so all-consuming, they, too, whisk participants away from the dozing herds that fill university lecture halls and seat them at seminar tables with scholars and politicians.
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In states like Idaho, for example, ranchers are permitted to protect their herds by killing wolves, and some states also allow wolf trophy hunts in an effort to further thin the packs.
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In photos and videos posted on Twitter and Weibo, herds of 10 to 15 deer can be seen trotting through city streets and subway stations, dodging traffic and eating people's potted plants.
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Where: Naples and Campagna The island of Capri was once the vacation spot of Roman emperors and derives its name from the herds of goats ( capra in Italian) that once inhabited it.
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The tribe historically followed caribou herds in the region, which spend part of the year on the coastal plain, but have faced increasing pressure as average temperatures in the region have risen.
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China's most popular meat, pork, is nearly 20123% costlier than a year ago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but lethal to pigs.
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China has been battling a devastating case of African swine fever and has implemented a series of policies to try to replenish its herds, including flying in 900 breeding pigs from Denmark.
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The black rhino and cheetah can be elusive, but there are spindly giraffes and young zebra dotting the landscape, and herds of elephants trundle along to the watering hole at cocktail hour.
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" He said it was difficult to "justify the front-end price surge other than that is where the liquidity is and where speculative players, moving in herds, always prefer to place their bets.
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Roughly one-fifth of the U.S. cattle inventory is within areas facing drought, including dire conditions that have led some livestock producers to sell off herds early due to the lack of hay.
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But over the last 20 years, as the options for pop culture consumption have proliferated, those shared obsessions have become rare events rather than commonplace rituals — lone unicorns instead of herds of cattle.
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Host of the Internet of Cows hackathon, in partnership with Google Launchpad and The Silicon Valley Forum, the startup put groups to work brainstorming solutions for monitoring herds, exporting goods and securing loans.
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But in a country where livestock contributes more than 40 percent of agricultural GDP, according to the government, the TIA official sees a long way to go before all Kenya's herds are covered.
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The Sioux, formerly farmers, had shifted to hunting the herds of bison that grew in a land depopulated by imported diseases, using horses they got from the Spanish and guns from the French.
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Recent rain failures have particularly hit livestock-herding communities across the country, some of whom have lost their entire herds to drought, or are left to walk long distances in search of water.
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The company managed to keep its profit in the first half of the year from hog products around last year's level by expanding herds to offset falling pork prices, according to the filing.
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African swine fever, which has already ravaged pig herds in China and pushed up food prices there, could also drive up inflation in the other emerging markets, according to research firm Capital Economics.
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Even their nightly brouhahas have purpose; those exasperating ga-noos are unique to each animal, which makes it easier for mothers and calves to find each other in large herds or the dark.
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Australia's east coast has recorded less than a fifth of its typical rainfall over the last three months and farmland there is bone dry, with graziers buying in grain to feed their herds.
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China, which uses soybeans to make feed for its vast livestock herds, has been pushing to reduce its dependence on oilseed imports from the United States amid mounting trade tensions between the two.
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About 46,000 horses are now held on ranches at a cost of $49 million a year, with public opinion blocking euthanasia to thin the herds and budgets too stretched to include fertility controls.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the South and Southeastern parts of the United States on Wednesday.
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" Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke issued a statement Friday night about putting the decision on hold: "President Trump and I have talked and both believe that conservation and healthy herds are critical.
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The country has managed to maintain high soybean inventories even as buyers shunned U.S. cargoes through the Brazilian shipments, and as African swine fever has decimated pig herds, sapping demand for animal feed.
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"What we are doing is trying to mimic nature," he says, explaining that 443 years ago, huge herds of animals would have moved over this veld, avoiding predators in their tightly packed groups.
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The urban herds became yet another emblem of the city's distinction, like the white-robed boys' choirs singing in the college chapels or the flat-bottomed boats of boozy picnickers crowding the river.
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But the lean times have always been followed by normal times, when it rains enough to rebuild herds, repay debts, give milk to the children and eat meat a few times each week.
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Measures to halt swine flu's spread, such as limiting the transportation of pork, risks destroying the livelihoods of families who lack the expertise and funds to protect their herds, said the FAO's report.
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None of Chinas top publicly traded producers have publicly announced any swine fever outbreak, but executives of major hog producers acknowledged in interviews with Reuters that their herds were hit by the disease.
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Mr. Root, whose filmmaking concentrated on the natural wonders of Africa, was known for inventive shots that captured both the grandeur of gigantic herds and up-close images of animals and their behavior.
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Pork producers are also concerned that they are missing out on a growing Chinese market, where demand has accelerated because of an outbreak of African swine fever that has ravaged China's pig herds.
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It also stems from a push by the government to develop agriculture and diversify the economy away from oil; the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture provides loans to farmers to expand the hybrid herds.
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At ground level, herds of strange footwear scurried around: silver Adidas sneakers with wings sprouting from the ankles, fuzzy ones with tails and tiger stripes, high-tops with green Teddy bears for tongues.
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In spite of thousands of trees to perch on, and huge meadows for grazing, all of our animals form flocks or herds and spend most of their time within inches of one another.
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He suggests perceptions are the problem: most people mistakenly think that all cows live in buttercup-filled meadows and that big, indoor herds immediately mean poor welfare, which is also not entirely true.
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