tranquilize
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They were joined by San Francisco police and staff from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the San Francisco Zoo, who helped to tranquilize the animal, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Fire and rescue officials used a ladder truck to get close to and tranquilize the bear.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
This let police, along with a veterinarian from the National Zoo and animal welfare activists from the Humane Rescue Alliance, tranquilize the bear at 10:15 a.m.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
But classification of individual tigers is often fraught, as are decisions about whether to kill or tranquilize and relocate these large carnivores.
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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The yearlings were tranquilized and will be released elsewhere if rabies is not detected in the sow, Game Commission spokesperson Travis Lau said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The Japanese macaque, who some had nicknamed “Kingussie Kong,” was caught and tranquilized Thursday morning, after a member of public called a hotline to report it was eating from a bird feeder in their garden.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
They also set trail cameras and traps, tranquilized lions, took biological samples and fitted animals with tracking collars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
FWC personnel were called to assist, and they safely tranquilized and captured the panther, according to WBBH-TV.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He sleeps about as heavily as a tranquilized elephant.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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The same doesn’t apply to reading, but there is a category of book known to combine tranquilizing and entertaining properties.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
Unlike most activists, and even some of his own colleagues, Karanth says that shooting is generally the most effective solution because of the challenges inherent in tranquilizing and then relocating a wild tiger.
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
There, the researchers count bears, tranquilizing and tagging some to collect data about their health.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2022
Tender but emphatic, Kong’s effect is equal parts fearsome and tranquilizing; in this stage version, we come to see the kinship between Kong and Ann not as a study in opposites but in shared alienation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018
When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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