lower animal
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Last November she blocked an application by Marineland to send the killer whales to a marine zoo in Japan, citing lower animal welfare regulations in the country.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
Scientists postulate that the bacillus originated in some lower animal and jumped to humans.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
Much of the amusement has to do with unfortunate encounters between the foolish passengers, who like to believe that they have transcended the instinctual life, and the lower animal kingdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Nile Valley, which teems with many strange forms of lower animal life, lives a terrifying snail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence his conclusion: “Man has proceeded from a modification or an improvement of some lower animal, some simpler stock.”
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
