living creatures

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It’s part of a broader real-estate industry trend to track properties’ surroundings, amid pressure to anticipate how everything from pollutants to window cleaning—and even strong lights—could harm living creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

As floodwaters surged downstream, they gathered animal carcasses from the surface, along with living creatures and skeletal remains caught in their path.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

However, she reminded people that certain beaches, such as La Jolla Shores, are designated “no take areas,” where the public is not allowed to remove living creatures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

And this doesn’t take into account the heat, radiation, and radioactive fallout that would contaminate living creatures and land for hundreds or thousands of miles around.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025

Their next adventure was with the Harpies, frightful flying creatures with hooked beaks and claws who always left behind them a loathsome stench, sickening to all living creatures.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton