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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.
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.
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]
The monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides), or colocolo opossum, [4] is a diminutive species of marsupial native only to south-western South America (Argentina and Chile). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia, being more closely related to Australian marsupials than to other American marsupials.
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.
Susan receives a proof of a novel written by her estranged ex-husband Edward Sheffield along with an invitation for dinner during Edward's upcoming visit to Los Angeles. Upset by her deteriorating marriage to unfaithful businessman Hutton Morrow, Susan becomes consumed by the novel, which is dedicated to her and named Nocturnal Animals after ...
¿Dónde jugarán los niños? was a critical and commercial success, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, the band's first top-ten entry. [4] Selling about 10 million copies worldwide, the album is the eighth best-selling Spanish-language album of all time and the best-selling Spanish-language rock album.