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But many newspapers have a surprisingly large, if dwindling, herd of paying customers.
If you have a shepherd, that shepherd wants to herd.
The lion approached the herd of gazelles slowly while hidden by a large termite mound.
Keep herd sizes large enough to maintain the future health of the herds.
The water hole is less than a mile away now, and everyone in the herd is looking forward to a good, long drink.
It snapped, allowing the grateful elephant to head off after his herd.
If you emotions are a herd response then guilt is there for the preservation of the herd.
Pigs produce so many piglets that a feral herd can double or even triple within as little as a year.
Almost immediately, he says, the herd began moving towards the corral.
Dolphins could be trained to round up and control the herd.
If herd immunity is the goal, then clearly we'd use this vaccine as much as possible.
So wearing the herd of kids out outdoors really isn't much of an option.
First prove yourself as a good researcher and then dare to provide intellectual leadership to the academic herd.
The ability to develop virtual reality beliefs from emotional commitments is typical of human herd development.
Since that cannot be relied upon, it is safer to go with the herd.
But he needs a flair factor to lift him above the herd.
Another is the foot-lifting that many elephants display prior to the arrival of another herd.
Thus if human life is not precious, it can be managed in much the same way as a herd.
One of the head males killed a foal, and the rest of the herd snubbed him somehow.
Plus, maybe this is natures way of thinning the herd.
If you raise livestock and fear herd loss, get a livestock guardian dog.
The world would be much too bland if everyone conformed to the herd mentality.
Herd sizes and incomes on the remaining farms are up.
So my suggestion would be to herd the grad cats, since from my perspective faculty cats are already feral.
The old military regime used to herd peasants forcibly into collectives, with lethal results.
Reunite him with his herd by using your elephant smarts to answer some wild questions.
Besides a herd mentality, there are two good reasons for this.
Thus while the social network herd is still quite small, there is less to fear from a pop.
It seems that herd behaviour is evidence of a lack of information.
The health of the herd defines the well being of the herd.
And many a doctor has had to undergo a malpractice suit when a zebra was among the herd of horses.
What do you care how they thin the herd of acceptable-on-paper candidates.
Soon you'll have a whole herd of them scarfing what they think is free corn.
Herd of deer in the meadow, heads down, grazing peacefully.
The endangered mammals actually herd herring with a ring of bubbles, trapping them.
Have students look at this picture of a wildebeest herd with zebras in the foreground.
In the far distance a herd of elephants proceeded at a stately pace toward the water hole.
In the herd's home range, warmer temperatures have spurred more mosquitoes and heavier snowfalls.
The foreman of shepherds examines herd on a pasture with the help of binocular.
For the first few years, the guiding principle of deer management was relatively simple: protect the does so the herd could grow.

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