rib cage English

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rib cage

— noun the bony enclosing wall of the chest

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rib cage English » English

thorax

rib

thoracic cavity

thoracic cage

chest

waist

ribs

ribcage

rib-cage

chest cavity

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There, the pampered chimpanzee - who, when asked to sort photos of humans and apes, put his own photo among the humans - was locked in a cage with other chimps.

Forest Service rangers set up a cage and put some bacon inside, soon catching and transporting the bear 30 kilometers into the wilderness.

In the early 1970's, when the modern animal-liberation movement began, no major organization was campaigning against the battery cage.

It took a concerted effort by the new animal radicals of the 1970's to stir the RSPCA from its complacency towards the battery cage and other forms of intensive animal rearing.

The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.

The end of the battery cage in Europe is a less dramatic development than the Arab Spring, but, like that popular uprising, it began with a small group of thoughtful and committed people.

A bird can survive inside a small cage and even lay eggs and bear descendants.

But just as a bird is happier in a cage the size of an auditorium and even happier when flying free, we walk better on a sidewalk three or ten meters wide.

Conditions are, if anything, even worse for laying hens crammed into wire cages so small that even if there were just one per cage, she would be unable to stretch her wings.

But there are usually at least four hens per cage, and often more.

Under such crowded conditions, the more dominant, aggressive birds are likely to peck to death the weaker hens in the cage.

Such devices enable animals to exert some control over their environment, such as escaping an attack from a cage-mate by moving to another level in the cage or hiding.

His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.

Putin, of course, would have been glad to see Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, his sworn enemy, put in a cage.

So we have to keep running like a squirrel in a cage.

Despite this, the two defendants are forced to sit inside a narrow cage whose glass front has only two small holes through which their lawyers can communicate with them.

The judge refused without comment requests by the defense to remove the cage and to replace one of the prosecutors, who had already been a prosecuting counsel during the first trial.

The view walking - in sweltering heat - through that long cage is apocalyptic.