tranquilize

Fire and rescue officials used a ladder truck to get close to and tranquilize the bear.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Officials from the town of Kleinmachnow said their goal was to tranquilize and capture the animal, rather than kill it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 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

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

The animal was tranquilized again, then moved to a bear trap that had been placed on a trailer, the news outlet reported.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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

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