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Recent Examples of domestic animal
The agency advises people to avoid contact with dead or sick birds, and to keep domestic animals away.
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Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
Anyone with exposure to wild or domestic animals, particularly birds, should take precautions to avoid infection, the agency says.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
Of course, human beings play a role in the emergence of disease, often by coming directly into contact with wild animals or by bringing domestic animals into contact with them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2015
But hybridizing with domestic animals could lead to some wild animals’ extinction as genetically distinct species.
—Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
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Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
Anyone with exposure to wild or domestic animals, particularly birds, should take precautions to avoid infection, the agency says.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
Of course, human beings play a role in the emergence of disease, often by coming directly into contact with wild animals or by bringing domestic animals into contact with them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2015
But hybridizing with domestic animals could lead to some wild animals’ extinction as genetically distinct species.
—Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domestic animal
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The Kansas City Pet Project is a nonprofit that, according to its website, cares for more than 15,000 animals a year and has 14 locations in Missouri and Kansas to adopt out pets.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
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Pastor and his fiancée, Lisa De Lange, grabbed their pets and sprinted out the door – leaving behind her diamond engagement ring.—
Holly Yan,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of herbivores, predators, scavengers, decomposers and more.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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Six episodes centre on a variety of different dinosaurs, from terrifying carnivores to docile herbivores.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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The site was once teeming with extinct fauna, including several carnivores, equine species, rhinocerotoids, and rodents.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
23 Jan. 2025
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The fifth set of tracks, alternatively, were made by a carnivore called Megalosaurus, reported Reuters.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Here’s how to manage groundhogs Moles Moles are insectivores, tunneling to find food.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 Dec. 2024
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Among the species declines that have led to billions fewer birds in North America over the last half-century, grassland birds and aerial insectivores have been hit especially hard, having lost many bugs that once fed them.—
Brandon Loomis,
The Arizona Republic,
22 Sep. 2024
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“Domestic animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestic%20animal. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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