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A Galapagos shark hooked by a fishing boat. Pain negatively affects the health and welfare of animals. [1] " Pain" is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage."
This is based on the principle that if a non-human animal's responses to stimuli are similar to those of humans, it is likely to have had an analogous experience. It has been argued that if a pin is stuck in a chimpanzee 's finger and they rapidly withdraw their hand, then argument-by-analogy implies that like humans, they felt pain.
Schmidt's original index rated only one such example, the sting of the bullet ant, as a 4. [1] Schmidt described the sting as "pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel." [3] The bullet ant's venom primarily contains poneratoxin, a paralyzing neurotoxic peptide. [8]
Los niños tontos (The Foolish Children) [1] is a collection of twenty-one stories written by Ana María Matute, first published in Madrid in 1956 by Ediciones Arión.. The protagonists of the stories are children, hence the title, however it is not children's literature: themes such as death and cruelty appear in all of the stories.
The chief function of a lactation is to provide nutrition and immune protection to the young after birth. Due to lactation, the mother-young pair can survive even if food is scarce or too hard for the young to attain, expanding the environmental conditions the species can withstand.
The Children's Museum of Caracas (Fundación Museo de los Niños) is a museum in Caracas, Venezuela aimed at teaching children about science, technology, culture and arts. It was established by the former First Lady of Venezuela , Alicia Pietri de Caldera in 1982.
The Monumento a los Niños Héroes ("Monument to the Boy Heroes"), officially Altar a la Patria ("Altar to the Homeland"), is a monument installed in the park of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico. [1]
The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) was created in 1963 and is a nonprofit corporation created to support the Los Angeles Zoo in its mission to nurture wildlife and enrich the human experience. GLAZA's primary responsibility is to seek and provide financial support for the zoo's programs and capital projects.