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The Congressional Research Service, in a report titled "The Endangered Species Act: Overview and Implementation," surveys the language and history of this elevation of biocentrism in federal law: The ESA expressly requires the Services to make listing determinations “ solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available .”
The position of the limbs and leg bones allows an elephant to stand still for extended periods of time without tiring. Elephants are incapable of turning their manus as the ulna and radius of the front legs are secured in pronation. [70] Elephants may also lack the pronator quadratus and pronator teres muscles or have very small ones. [72]
The elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party of the United States originated in an 1874 political cartoon of an Asian elephant by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. This cartoon, titled "Third Term Panic", is a parody of Aesop's fable, [h] "The Ass in the Lion's Skin".
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. [1]
Capital Area District Libraries Local History department offers glimpses into Lansing's past
The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") [2] [3] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is ...
Here’s what EPA chief Lee Zeldin thinks about RFK Jr.’s herbicide theory: Scientists need to be ‘empowered’
The elephant then flips the vehicle over and the passengers can be heard gasping as the car rolls over. NBC News does not know the condition or identity of the person who filmed the video.