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Debarker machine Manually decorticated trunk of a spruce as protection to bark beetles. Debarking is the process of removing bark from wood. Traditional debarking is conducted in order to create a fence post or fence stake which would then go on to be pointed before being planted. [1] Debarking can occur naturally during powerful tornadoes. [2]
A typical shock collar. Shock collar used on a riot police dog in 2004 in Würzburg.Two years later, [1] Germany banned the use of shock collars, even by police. [2]A shock collar or remote training collar, also known as an e-collar, Ecollar, or electronic collar, is a type of training collar that delivers shocks to the neck of a dog [3] to change behavior.
Girdling in Lille, Northern France. Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes also the xylem) of a branch or trunk of a woody plant.
This communication is two-way, as owners can learn to discern the subtle differences between barks or meows, and there is a clear difference between the bark of an angry dog defending its home and the happy bark of the same animal while playing. Communication (often nonverbal) is also significant in equestrian activities such as dressage.
Bark, George is a 1999 children's book written and illustrated by author, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, and published by Michael di Capua Books. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was listed as ninth overall in a list of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal . [ 4 ]
The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places is an anthology of works by American author Truman Capote. It was published on September 12, 1973 and includes essays from Local Color and Observations , as well as The Muses Are Heard .