tranquilize

Human Rescue Alliance staffers were able to tranquilize the approximately 200- pound animal and load it into a huge metal crate.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

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

The sheep, out of its element and skittish from the crashing waves, ruined the first day of the session, so a veterinarian was called in to tranquilize the animal for day two.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

After attempts to dart or tranquilize the mountain lion proved difficult, wildlife officials captured the animal across the street from the Brentwood Country Club shortly after 4 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

A mountain lion was tranquilized, sedated and then released into the wild after being spotted in Escondido, according to wildlife officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026

Disaster nearly struck early in the relocation effort, when a tranquilized rhino stumbled into a creek.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 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

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

Grubert says the aim is to catch the animal, if necessary by tranquilizing it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

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