Llamas instinctively guard against canine attacks, possibly because their natural herd instincts have wired them to chase off predators. |
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In 2002 alone, 100 animals in 34 herds were diagnosed as having Johne's disease, with one entire herd being depopulated. |
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Once, I found a hole in a fence and sent a herd of sheep stampeding for cover. |
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He runs an Aberdeen Angus herd near Skipton and sits on the West Riding National Farmers' Union's livestock committee. |
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The farm's herd is a cross between the indigenous Wagyu and another quality export from Scotland, the Aberdeen Angus. |
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The herd had also slowed to a walk, but continued to move away from the bear. |
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When the giant waves struck the coast of Kenya, Owen was wallowing with his herd in the ocean near the mouth of the Sabaki River. |
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It's said that as one herd crossed a river it would raise the water level several feet. |
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In 1883, Hulke became the recipient of a prestigious national prize for his herd of Jerseys milkers, made up of Jenny and her calves. |
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Mr Phillip keeps 20 Jerseys, which run alongside a herd of 110 Holstein Friesians. |
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They milk 150 Jerseys but plan to increase the herd size to 180 this autumn. |
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These cattle will be managed by the community, who will benefit from the production of the herd through the sale of weaners and slaughter cattle. |
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When this war comes to an end, will you herd me in a Jim Crow car like cattle? |
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The best pruning job I've ever seen was done by a herd of cows on a wild apple tree. |
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You'll find the addax herd in the main pasture, generally hanging out along the scenic drive route. |
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Following the severe winter of 1995, for example, the Mt. Langley herd was left with 4 ewes and 11 rams. |
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The Epperson's way of pasture ranching horses allows the horses to learn herd behavior and grow up in nature's elements. |
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It was only with great difficulty that the animal keepers were able to herd Rita away to safety on such occasions. |
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One herd numbered thirty or more, water buffalo perhaps two or three times as many again. |
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The Kickapoos quirted their ponies upslope from the creek bed, charging the horse herd and its startled guards. |
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Healthier cows milking at a lower rate will stay in the herd longer, he thinks. |
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As the herd gained momentum the bells on the lead cows rang out louder and the erratic clanging became a regular tolling. |
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He always lived in strangers' unheated woodsheds and in return would herd their geese and cows. |
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A herd of shoppers blocked my entrance into the parking lot, starting me off all wrong. |
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Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week. |
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Each man had about five horses and a herd of remounts always followed the armies to ensure that there would be a sufficient amount of horses. |
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They could milk and herd the dzo, the cross between a yak and a cow, that meets most of Ladakh's dairy needs. |
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We rest the herd near camp on a large area of tundra where the animals can feed. |
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Under socialism, economic and social equality increased as variation in herd size and wealth levels was reduced. |
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Kamen is fairly interesting to watch as he cues in and rides herd on the Symphony throughout the track. |
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With audit fees shrinking to a sliver of overall revenues, accountants had even less incentive to ride herd on their clients. |
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On the high plains of the West, tough men still ride herd on the open range. |
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No one rode herd on all those people, forcing them to cooperate for your benefit. |
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Early in the afternoon a herd of about 60 camels arrived, and caused some anxiety to those having horses in or near the line of march. |
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In addition to a range of arable crops, there are 25 hectares of permanent grass supporting a suckler herd and sheep flock. |
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They head like a vast herd of silent bison for the tightly-packed bars, shops and arcades in buildings bejewelled with neon. |
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Apparently there is another llama on the way so once that arrives that will make them a herd or perhaps a flock. |
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The estate includes a 17th century deer park with a herd of fallow deer, and ornamental gardens. |
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He'd passed a herd of longhorns a curve-and-a-half back, along with those silly looking mini-donkeys he'd gaped at fifteen years ago. |
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We ski stealthily up to a herd of deer or pass a ruffed grouse on the trail while gliding along. |
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One who did join was dairy farmer, Les Scaife, who runs a herd of 145 cows at Nether Silton, near Thirsk. |
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The tea garden and craftwork provide additional income for the family farm, where the Eddons run a herd of beef suckler cattle. |
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This ranch is owned by Carlton and Nancy Laxton and they run a herd of over two hundred pedigree Romagnola cows. |
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Milk from Hahns's herd of Nubian, La Mancha and Saanen goats goes into her much-sought-after line of handmade soaps. |
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Fence lines and untamed areas are also maintained by the herd of Saanen dairy goats. |
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A noisy mixed herd of goats and sheep clomped over the wooden bridge, baaing and maaing their little head off. |
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There was only the one herd restricted, which is the same as in the previous year. |
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They planted avocado and apricot trees, grew wheat, and invested their savings in a herd of sheep for milking. |
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Adolescent males join a roaming bachelor herd and don't mate until they're anywhere from 15 to 20 years old. |
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The Rancho riding herd is usually 27 horses, mainly Spanish barbs and mixes of that breed. |
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His herd of 133 sheep and goats were de-wormed and several were given shots for mange. |
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As the herd is driven slowly past, one man counts the animals in tens while the other writes down the numbers. |
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A breeding herd usually consists of a stallion with anything from one to five mares, and their foals. |
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A police car containing marksmen was used to try and herd the heifer towards the river, but it continued its rampage. |
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It was almost a disappointment when we came to a stop at the edge of clearing where a herd of deer were grazing. |
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The buck and its tall, thick rack had vanished, replaced by a herd of feral hogs that vacuumed the corn. |
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Crossing the coastal plain on the heels of the main herd was a bit like walking through a barnyard. |
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It has been observed that great barracudas herd schools of fish into shallow water and guard them. |
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Marks said the herd gathered around a tall tree to shelter during a thunderstorm when lightning struck the tree. |
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The Bearded Collie or beardie is the traditional dog of the Scottish shepherd, but was used to herd both sheep and cattle. |
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Several of us do many a ritual out of sheer herd mentality rather than with real interest or understanding. |
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You get them together and that herd mentality takes over and bad things seem to come of it. |
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You could set your clock or watch with Pat as he drove his herd in our out of the parlour to pasture morning and evening. |
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They certainly don't herd sheep, but will fight to the death to kill their predators. |
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There is where the road bends upward and where some domestic goats once got loose and established a wild herd on a rocky ledge. |
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And if she was walking toward you, it was like a herd of buffalo heading your way. |
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The animal calved three weeks ago in the Butterfields' herd of 100 milkers, and is giving 35 kg of milk daily. |
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The herd of 115 milkers and 85 followers is mainly pedigree black and whites but there are also 20 award-winning dairy shorthorns. |
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After almost 40 years in milk production, John and Sally Hart are dispersing their Hilhoath herd of pedigree Jersey and Guernsey milkers. |
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While use rights in livestock are transferred frequently, ownership rights are predominantly transferred after the death of a herd owner. |
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Their large herd of Angora goats that are sheared for the fiber the goats produce, mohair, are rounded up twice a year. |
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Close to 700,000 older milking and breeding cattle are culled from the national herd each year. |
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Hens herd their chicks from the shade of one log to the next, searching for specks of grain along the way. |
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I was almost trampled by a herd of mouth-breathers, apparently in the grip of some kind of snack frenzy! |
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He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil. |
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A small herd of muleys, both bucks and does, were hopping over the sage, making their way down a valley just outside of our camp. |
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He never found me, I only saw him crashing through the trees and underbrush like a herd of wild buffalo. |
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Deliberately leading a herd to a neighbor's land was outrageous, and talking about it brought his anger to the boiling point. |
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They would then release the bull into the boma to be with his herd at night. |
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Pete and Rowdy had pushed most of the herd into somewhat of a box canyon not too far away. |
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Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres. |
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The young bucks in the herd had been rubbing their velvety antlers clean on the blueberry canes. |
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To those of us who have not forgotten the eternal verities, he has summed up perfectly today's pundit herd of Washington and Wall Street. |
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Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks. |
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Those cattle have been used as an excuse for the Montana Department of Livestock to slaughter thousands of America's last wild herd of buffalo. |
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Just as Diego almost cut the cow out of the herd it lashed out kicking furiously and howling. |
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In the herd work, the horse cuts a cow from the herd and shows its ability to control it with little assistance from his rider. |
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Sneaking up on a huge animal, and cutting it out of a herd was always treacherous business. |
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The thunder belonged to a herd of baby elephants who began to bunt the walls. |
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When he wasn't there, he was outside in the porch swing watching Mama's herd of cats, visiting with friends, or just thinking. |
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A herd of horses came running over the green meadow towards the tree where he and Pamela were preparing a picnic in the noonday sun. |
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Even though a family may own a stableful of cars and employ a herd of chauffeurs, kids walk to their school every day. |
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Suddenly, a herd of hideous, strange animals stampeded by, as the strange man next to Jack launched arrows into the group. |
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A sinister cyclops rises above a herd of carousel horses, freed from their constraints and stampeding out of the painting. |
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The final bell rang and a herd of students rushed out of the classroom, stampeding towards their rides home. |
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Once they tried to drive a herd of several hundred ponies through the line to disrupt and stampede the pack animals, but the attempt failed. |
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In nature, most markings on herd animals are intended as camouflage to protect them from being seen by predators. |
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He tripled his herd size, halved his per cow production, and says its the only thing that makes sense. |
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He has his own herd of beasts and hangs the meat longer than anyone I know. |
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The station relied heavily on orcas to herd the southern right whales to the harpoons at the ready. |
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The biologist believed that the herd would soon be in trouble and that the animal harvest would have to be reduced. |
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Scientists say the decline of the Porcupine caribou herd in Alaska and the Yukon may be linked to global warming. |
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In May and early June the coastal plain serves as the principal calving ground for the Porcupine herd of caribou. |
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Once 132 of them were kept under hatches for three days without fresh water, bedded down with a herd of pigs. |
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It made you gaze knowingly out over the herd as if you were calculating what they'd bring on the hoof at market. |
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I don't usually watch a lot of local TV but happened to catch a programme last night about a farm with a herd of buffaloes. |
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Only last month a herd of cows was stranded on the River Exe floodplain, just north of Tiverton, Devon. |
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As I was a farmer's daughter, Christmas Day began bright and early for me as I got up to help milk our herd of cows. |
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Their first ranch animal was a milk cow, and when she calved they were on their way to a herd of 120 or so. |
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Brazil is the world's second biggest soya producer and has the second biggest herd of cattle. |
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In 1920 the company bought farm land in Cheshire and raised a herd of Hereford beef cattle. |
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Walking home late one evening, a tuba player blew low notes near a herd of cattle. |
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At the next table a herd of cattlemen raved about the roast Woodville duck. |
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High immunisation rates may result in herd immunity, which increases protection for all residents, including the weakest patients. |
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Suppose I have a herd of purebred Angus cattle and I market my beef as a branded product. |
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The buildings huddled together like a herd of deer in the dead of a winter storm, attempting to share warmth and shelter from the elements. |
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On the other side of the fence that separates prey from predator, a herd of zebras huddle together and drink from a nearby river. |
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The latest foot and mouth outbreak in Brazil has affected 153 animals in a herd of 582 cattle and eight pigs. |
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But casual sightings in recent years indicate that a herd of seven horses was living in the park last year. |
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About half a mile north-west of Easton he could see a group of mounted figures watching over a herd of large animals. |
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Mr and Mrs Harries, who farm 180 hectares, have a herd of 300 dairy cows, 180 followers and 120 beef cattle. |
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The awesome stupidity of the common herd endures and multiplies, in part, because of the bogus trend stories that daily newspapers feed it. |
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Some demonstrators were injured and five reportedly arrested when the police suddenly moved forward to herd people off the roadway. |
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But public service companies like Translink can herd children onto a bus that make them, he said, dangerously overloaded. |
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He knew what it was like to herd sheep and cattle, to pick blackberries and blackcurrants, to thin beets and snag turnips. |
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Samoyeds were traditionally used to herd reindeer and guard against wolves and bears. |
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They must give them clothes, look after their garden, herd their cattle, sheep and goats, build their grain stores and houses. |
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Because of the herd immunity that exists because of mass vaccination, the unvaccinated are also protected. |
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They found no evidence that vaccination prevents viral transmission, putting the whole herd immunity myth once again into question. |
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Children whose parents opt not to vaccinate decrease herd immunity, which protects populations from communicable diseases. |
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Neither one really addressed the question of mandatory vaccination and its effect on mortality and herd immunity. |
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There, public health officials have now documented mass HPV vaccination and the first glimmers of herd immunity. |
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The origin of these summer traditions is a primal herd instinct, the urge to join with others in a festive act. |
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There is still a close connection between the head of the Herero family, his special herd of cattle, and his ancestors. |
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A new site is also being developed to which the suckler cow herd and breeding unit will shortly move. |
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The 50-year-old is currently establishing a beef suckler herd after diversifying from milk production last July. |
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I have the biggest herd of sucklers in Lancashire scattered across 1,186 acres. |
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How about paying some deadbeat dads to slaughter a herd of oxen and throw those fabulous thighbones on the barbie? |
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Later, the king sent a herd of oxen to trample his enemy, but the cattle took care not to hurt Zoroaster. |
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The Chillingham herd is believed to be related to prehistoric auroch oxen, which once grazed across northern Europe. |
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With a combined total of 25,000 Holstein cows including replacement heifers, Braum's owns its own milking herd of 10,000 cows. |
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On the other side of a barbed wire fence, a herd of Holsteins turns its full attention to the noisy newcomers. |
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Brigitte is an experienced horsewoman well versed in breeding and herd care and Kerry is involved in upkeep, maintenance and grounds control. |
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The complex consists of 17 free-stall barns spanning over 35 acres and houses the milking herd and milking parlor. |
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The older members of the herd have full sets of antlers and prominent wooly humps, but they only walk. |
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Finding one of these big peccaries all by itself and away from its herd was unprecedented in our experience. |
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Furthermore, the attenuated virus is excreted in the faeces, leading to herd immunity. |
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For example, when collies became popular pets in the Victorian period, they lost many of the characteristics that made them effective herd dogs. |
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The markets need to be led, not followed, in order to tame speculative market actions and counter herd behavior, fads, and fancies. |
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The main concern for farmers is to reduce their risk of suffering a herd breakdown. |
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They had the choice of increasing the size of the dairy herd or changing the system completely. |
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This could indicate rapidly and accurately whether a flock or herd has contracted the disease or is incubating it. |
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In milder years, the herd of 12 does and fawns which migrates through my yard are much more selective in their tastes. |
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The artwork spread across both truck and trailer depicts healthy young female farm workers feeding out straw to a herd of cows. |
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Well documented in vertebrates, this so-called selfish herd effect has now been reported for an invertebrate, the fiddler crab. |
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The chapter on breeding herd management does not present breeding strategies for insemination or the control of the sow's nutrition. |
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For the remainder of the night the unsteady trumpeting of the elephants echoed through the forest as the pixilated herd acted out their binge. |
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Eleven years after the dairyman switched to become a learner of how to manage a herd on intensively managed pasture, he's much happier. |
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The required interval between inward and outward movements in a herd has been reduced from twenty days to seven days. |
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Pamela Brown is marvelous in a small role as a sort of wild woman of the heath, traipsing about with a herd of Irish wolfhounds. |
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They found and corralled a small wild herd of buffalo, which became the breeding stock for the magnificent beast we have today. |
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They tried to corral one pig at a time into the corner and herd it up the ramp. |
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I once read an article about a guy who corralled a herd of particularly wily mustangs by just quietly pushing them from 3 miles back. |
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The aim was to round up the goats and herd them towards the vermin fence, where they were corralled. |
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He values his Jersey dairy herd for its gentleness, as well as the high butterfat and protein. |
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Free stabling in cow-houses causes troubles especially in the group treatment of animals, and in some cases even in a herd treatment. |
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When she looked at the floor more closely, she noticed a herd of tiny lizards crawling across its surface. |
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The college dairy farm supplies liquid milk all the year round to Dawn Dairies from a top class herd of pedigree Friesians. |
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The family have had to sell their dairy herd after the tanker firm that collected their milk had its vehicles attacked. |
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But if something startles the deer and they begin to run, the whole herd of cows galumphs behind them until they reach the fence. |
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These are people who herd cattle with helicopters and drink two-litre bottles of beer called Darwin stubbies. |
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Neither of us consider that this could be associated with parasitic gastro-enteritis, if, as has been stated, the herd was permanently housed. |
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The popularity of sheepdog trials is surging in Australia, despite a declining rural population and a growing trend of using motorbikes to herd sheep and cattle. |
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Once free, it's entirely likely the King of the Jungle and his trusty herd of elephants will save the day by laying a smackdown on the hostile tribe. |
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Straining my eyes in the dazzling white-out, I excitedly make my first sighting in the distance, only to be informed it's a herd of cattle from a nearby ranch. |
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It was also the ancient world equivalent of name-dropping designed to differentiate him from the rest of the philosopher herd affected by divine radiation. |
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It is as challenging as being a matador who evades a herd of raging bulls. |
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As adolescents are the only group in which carriage rates have been studied, these data provide more robust evidence of herd immunity across the whole population. |
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Bulls and cows in the Tsaatan herd grow velvety racks of antlers. |
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A herd of wild horses galloped across the pampas, tossing their heads in a display of wild exuberance, against a backdrop of snow covered mountains. |
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The goal is herd immunity, where the proportion of people susceptible to infection in a physically interacting population is so low that transmission of infection is unlikely. |
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With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night. |
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Soon, the Thwaites' jersey herd comprised only registered cattle. |
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At one point Rachel and Aiden have a freakish incident with a herd of malicious deer, and later there is reference to antlers that didn't seem to have any explanation. |
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It is well known that if a trait is heritable, the easiest and most practical way to change the trait in a herd of cattle is through selection of the sire. |
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They speak Quechua, the language of the Incas, herd alpaca and llamas and grow potatoes and beans, which they trade with their lowland neighbours for corn. |
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When the system was broken up and the national herd divided between herders who had worked in the communities, no one took up these responsibilities. |
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At the moment, Britain's sole Wagyu herd is living out its days on 800 acres of lush, rolling pastures, on the far-flung Llyn Peninsula in north-western Wales. |
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A generation ago, mounting an expedition meant drafting a herd of porters, slogging loads of gear to a rocky base camp, and laying siege to a Himalayan peak. |
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Cows removed from the herd as reproductive culls were excluded also. |
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It looked like a herd of white buffalo stampeding down on me. |
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They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years. |
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Or rather the cyclists round the next bend wouldn't be safe, the herd of cows, the family blackberrying, the children walking, they wouldn't be safe. |
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He gives solid reasons for denying that the sense of moral obligation could arise from a herd instinct, from social convention, or from a Freudian superego. |
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Now it is time to divide the herd among the three districts, the total number of reindeer for each area being made up of a combination of bulls, females and calves. |
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Yet the IMF rode herd on countries such as Indonesia, which found it politically impossible to fulfill the more than 100 conditions attached to its 1998 bailout. |
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I could fall face first into a herd of leprechauns and not notice. |
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Backs to the wind, the herd of Arctic hares grazed on purple saxifrage. |
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Heifer growth is tracked as carefully as milk production to maximize heifers available for replacements and herd growth without reducing first lactation milk production. |
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When a predator appears, older members of the herd emit intense warning calls that prompt the rest of the herd to clump together for protection and then flee the scene. |
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Since measles is so contagious, even with herd immunity, it can find a weak link and spread. |
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The herd instinct and the lack of overseas investment opportunities in the 1980s caused developers to create a patchwork of shoddy, half-empty suburban malls. |
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There's variety in the animals and produce and the freedom to focus on the aspects you most enjoy, such as foregoing a big garden in favor of a herd of animals. |
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Uncertainty about the level of herd immunity generated by vaccination programmes limits modelling of the potential benefits of booster vaccination. |
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As a result of herd losses, the maluka and his men head out on a man hunt. |
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Those parents are wrong, because they are responsible for both riding herd on their progeny and making amends when they don't fulfill that mission. |
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Mighty hunter Baluk proposes that the solution is to travel northwards in order to intercept the annual caribou migration and hunt the herd for the band's needs. |
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During the lunch hour, I was waiting for the lambers to get back, and I waited all alone in a big field of about 100 pregnant ewes, the last of the herd to come through. |
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The goal of measles control is to raise population immunity above herd immunity threshold and eventually to interrupt indigenous virus transmission. |
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Half a mile to the north, a scattered herd of fallow deer nosed at the snow-covered roots of wide-spaced, scraggly trees sprouting from the rubble of an ancient landslide. |
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Citroen's C5 launched nationwide towards the end of last month is innovative and different enough from the main herd to earn a badge of distinction. |
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In an entirely different style, Ma Yuan's The Top of the World Mountains is a stunning realist landscape of Tibet with a herd of yaks crossing a desert plateau. |
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Even the folks who were afraid to eat garlic snakes crowded around the stall to look at the weird vegetables and drew more customers in by appealing to their herd instinct. |
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So they are cagey about letting the common herd assess their work. |
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I think the correct description is that a lot of the financial analysts are essentially herd animals, and they follow the stampede in whichever direction it's going. |
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In the beef lines Limousins were headed by the in calf heifer Brontemoor Spice Girl, owned by Steve Priestley, owner of a 100-cow breeding herd at Denholme, near Bradford. |
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Unfortunately, thanks to the herd instinct in our current media culture, anyone who publicly raises this question is immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist. |
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Bill, who spends the rest of the year running a herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle at Trefawr Farm, Llanfyrnach, confided that loose leaf tea was the secret of a good cuppa. |
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They form a matriarchy, a herd of females led by the dominant matriarch, who all band together to raise and protect and teach each other and their young calves. |
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The vaccination is seen as a way to achieve herd immunity as it stops the spread of the illness from children to others that are vulnerable to flu. |
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He started with six cows and had a herd of 26 by high school. |
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Suddenly, from nowhere, a rumble starts and he hauls himself into a tree, clinging on as, beneath him, a herd of cattle stampedes across his bedding. |
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There was a game reserve in South Africa in which a herd of elephants suddenly exhibited uncharacteristic, senseless violence and destructiveness. |
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Every year the entire herd in the park, numbering some 3,000 animals, is rounded-up and stampeded into a series of corrals for veterinary checks and branding. |
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A single buffalo distress bellow is enough to turn a docile, ruminating herd into a battalion of warriors, ready to charge and chase off an entire pride of lions. |
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It seems to me that the government has followed the herd instinct and ignored the opportunity of freedom that the present situation in fact allows people. |
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In a flash, six national diary-trade groups stampeded into federal court, with a whole herd of lawyers to stop the state from implementing this law. |
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We got held up by a herd of elephants in no hurry to cross the road. |
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The herd amplifies a sensational story, and then it moves on. |
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Reindeer herding among the northern Nentsy includes the year-round pasturing of reindeer under the supervision of herders and the use of herd dogs and reindeer-drawn sleighs. |
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By the time they had gotten there, a small herd of young Pegasus, centaurs, and dragons had accumulated behind them, amazed at the two strange creatures. |
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Unlike captive ranched buffalo, which are now relatively common, the Yellowstone buffalo herd has never interbred with cattle and has retained its wild character. |
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The farm supplies milk from its Ayrshire herd for Duchy Originals milk, vegetables for crisps, oats and wheat for biscuits, pigs for bacon and sausages and barley for ale. |
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Hoss continued to pitch hay from the bed of the wagon, creating mounds that the herd of his father's favorite Herefords would wade into with abandon. |
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The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses. |
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One correctly pointed out that if universal smallpox vaccination were offered, those who couldn't be immunized would be protected by herd immunity. |
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My first encounter with a rare herd of red deer wintering in the Austrian Alps came after a four-hour ascent on skis through snowed-in forests and steep terrain. |
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She calved last December and is currently giving 40 kg of milk a day in their Winton herd of 220 milkers based both at Cherry Burton and Shiptonthorpe near York. |
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Expert ropers caught the calves with a loop around their hind legs and dragged them out of the herd to the fires where the branding irons were heating. |
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Incorrect documents that he filled out were sent back to him to be done again and O'Reilly gave up and found himself with a large herd of untagged animals. |
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Federal investigators are scouring records to chart the life of the animal and others in its birth herd for evidence that they may have consumed contaminated feed. |
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A good herd immunity effect dramatically controlled the disease initially. |
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As soon as he switched to cows, he advertised for sharemilkers, providing the chosen ones with the land, a farmhouse, dairy herd and milking shed. |
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This jacket is so cool that the cow it was made from was probably smoking a joint and listening to Hendrix while the rest of the herd was in the milking shed. |
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From one of these, a cavalry unit was dispatched to the Cheyenne village the following day, but its inhabitants and their recently enlarged herd had not waited. |
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In later years the Merry Muster Association had its own herd of top class buckjumpers which ran on Brightlands and Devoncourt Stations throughout the year. |
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Six years ago this hillside and the lowland beneath it was farmland grazed by the dairy herd that was part of Kilmeaden Cheese Factory's model farm. |
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They include Finland's Salomo Nkkljrvi, who uses his dog Tafie to herd reindeer and protect them from wolves. |
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If you're not effectively eliminating transmission, herd immunity may not be achievable. |
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The Daily Post revealed in April how health chiefs were concerned uptake of the MMR jab was too low in Liverpool to create herd immunity. |
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If we want to achieve herd immunity with HPV, we really need to vaccinate both sexes. |
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However, herd immunity only works if you have a substantial portion of the herd that's not susceptible to the disease. |
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And yet I'm afraid my herd instinct means that I'd rather carry on regardless, while being glad other folk are taking a stand. |
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Global investors are fleeing Europe with the same herd instinct that accumulated Old World bourses last year. |
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This herd instinct can make you feel foolish as you slowly retreat and make your way back only to find the lift has left without you. |
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In some instances, they would deposit an offending sheepherder at one corner of the park and the herd at the other, 125 miles away. |
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But zoo staff said Pori, 26, had only been trying to get her 250lb youngster on his feet and there were no herd feelings. |
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The milk cow and its herd of four other animals were slaughtered, in accordance with French law. |
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We lost four animals that week, had the first case of mid-lactation milk fever in the history of our herd and suffered other health problems. |
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James and Hannah began breeding pedigree Texels in 1997 to provide tups for the commercial herd of their father Rob Draper. |
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The timing of Peter Elkind's book, released in April, was a vivid reminder of not having Eliot Spitzer riding herd on Wall Street. |
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Wolves are ferocious predators, brave enough to take on a herd of massive, angry musk ox. |
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They focused on overall herd movements and interanimal distances and developed the first ethogram for these animals during a net set for tuna. |
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This beautiful uddered Jordan daughter sold for 1,600gns and joins Neil Sanderson's herd at Burtholme Farm, Brampton. |
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Milk production from an Ayrshire herd ceased in 1996 and a Charolais herd established in 1982 was continued alongside the commercial sucklers. |
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Airborne antibiotic resistant and nonresistant bacteria and fungi recovered from two swine herd confined animal feeding operations. |
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Pieced together from footage shot over eight years, Sweetgrass follows shepherds as they herd their flocks through Montana's Beartooth Mountains. |
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She produces Anster cheese using unpasteurised milk from her husband Robert's herd of cattle. |
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Once we get the herd we can set up relays to keep the bangtails movin' as we go. |
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We could see the herd of barasinghas grazing on an open grass patch to the left of the road ahead now. |
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A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market. |
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Today the shade was being enjoyed by a herd of torpid earthpigs, gorged on a feast of ants. |
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Cory couldn't help but wonder what Ms. Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists. |
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Status among the early Germanic tribes was often gauged by the size of a man's cattle herd or by one's martial prowess. |
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For herd immunity to occur, the vaccine must prevent transmission of the virus as well as prevent disease. |
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About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each. |
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He is later found in the forest of Northumberland by a follower of Uther's disguised as an ugly man and tending a great herd of beasts. |
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Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. |
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We'll mosey along toward the river. Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh. |
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Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes. |
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Hunters of wild goats and sheep were knowledgeable about herd mobility and the needs of the animals. |
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The herd is now stable at around 150 individuals, some born in Scotland and some introduced from Sweden. |
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When they encounter a shoal of fish, they work as a team to herd them towards the shore to maximize the harvest. |
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The predators often cooperate in groups, using different techniques to panic or herd a school of herring into a tight bait ball. |
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Humpback whales, among others, form in collaboration bubble carpets to herd krill or plankton into bait balls before lunging at them. |
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Seemann developed a different scenario, in which Plateosaurus herds congregated on large water holes, and some herd members got pushed in. |
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Although some individuals return to the same area of ice in July to undergo moulting, the majority of the herd moult further North. |
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Also, antelope will consistently display a fear response to perceived predators, such as humans, making them very difficult to herd or handle. |
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Today, the herd numbers fewer than 150 and hunting of fallow deer is not permitted. |
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After two weeks, calves are able to join the herd and are fully weaned after two months. |
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A herd of white fallow deer is located near Argonne National Laboratories in northeastern Illinois. |
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A small herd of 15 mostly white fallow deer resides at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. |
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More of the animals were imported and added to the herd over the next three decades. |
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One distinguishing feature is that Hampshire has a large free roaming herd of red deer, including more than 6,500 stags during busy seasons. |
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As herd sizes continued to increase, this evolved into the more efficient milking parlor. |
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Plate heat exchangers have also evolved as a result of the increase of dairy farm herd sizes in the United States. |
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On some farms the milking herd is further divided into milking strings, which are groups of animals with different nutritional needs. |
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They will grow up to take the place of older animals in the milking herd and thus are sometimes generally referred to as the replacement herd. |
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In this way, the heifers will be able to give birth and join the milking herd before their second birthday. |
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Additionally, AI has been shown to reduce spread of venereal diseases within herd that would ultimately lead to fertility problems. |
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