jolantru blogs about her opposition to the culling of strays

Cat lovers were shocked and outraged by the indiscriminate culling.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

The dogs help herd the cattle.

The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.

He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.

Tom saw a small herd of elephants.

Prisons herd together angry, unruly people against their will.

Prisons herd together angry, unruly people against their will.

The newborn calf couldn't catch up with the herd running from the jaguar.

Nick, along with researcher Dr. Michael Fay, collared the matriarch of the herd.

To go out with my wife and the visitors and meet the herd...

Annie had been killed, along with 20 members of her herd.

But once the annual rains began, the herd would begin migrating to feeding grounds outside the park.

TJ This is a herd, and it is built according to genetical codes.

Mr Kuchma publicly denounced the crowds of protesters against him as a herd under various flags .

The stars of Auriga comprised a herd of goats, an association also present in Greek mythology.

The herd was safe within the confines of the park, because of this dedicated group of park rangers.

A fairly large sized herd of animals has been browsing between the fences and are eating the grass.

This phenomenon is called herd immunity, and it has been vital to vaccines effectiveness.

Other models use principal agent behavior to explain momentum (herd behavior) in financial markets.

'Leave, sheep' referring to President Morsi, in an allusion to the herd like behavior of Muslim Brotherhood.

This is a classic description of the herd behavior that George Soros has identified as financial markets dominant feature.

But, I was also pleased from the point of view of a citizen, with a strong dislike of the herd mentality.

Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

Herd behavior arises, Keynes thought, not from attempts to deceive, but from the fact that, in the face of the unknown, we seek safety in numbers.

... what I call contemptible heroes ... ... someone who risks doing a good thing against the collective wisdom of the herd and usually gets punished for it.

It will be especially good when Pava's calf is already a red mottled cow, and the whole herd in which these three will be...!

Levin repeated to himself. He turned over, and leaning on his elbows began looking at a herd of cattle in the distance approaching the river on the other side.

To day he paid less attention than ever to the familiar surroundings the stage, the noise, and all that well known, uninteresting, motley herd of audience in the packed theatre.

Cattle were the most important livestock the administration collected taxes on livestock in regular censuses, and the size of a herd reflected the prestige and importance of the estate or temple that owned them.

Though Russia s public debt is modest, its foreign exchange reserves large, and its economy much stronger than in 1998, once the herd is running, it is impossible to stop it.

Since then, animal loving Singaporeans have rallied to the cause, setting up a Facebook page appealing to Pasir Ris Punggol GRC Member of Parliament Ms Penny Low and the AVA to stop the culling. There are so many ways we could meaningfully reduce the homeless animal population.

So what do you get? You get better decision making, and you get less herd behavior, and both of those things hit your bottom line with very positive results.

Herd behavior arises, Keynes thought, not from attempts to deceive, but from the fact that, in the face of the unknown, we seek safety in numbers. Economics, in other words, must start from the premise of imperfect rather than perfect knowledge.

During that time, though, they emerge in huge numbers in some regions and may take up to 300 ml of blood per day from each animal in a caribou herd.

All of a sudden tremendously destructive herd driven financial crises were back Mexico, Thailand, Korea, Brazil, and so on looked like nothing as much as the US financial panic of 1873 or the Austrian Creditanstalt crisis of 1931.

And suddenly the joyous thought came uppermost 'In two years' time I shall have two Dutch cows in my herd and Pava herself may still be alive there will be twelve cows by Berkut, and these three to crown all splendid!'

There was no place for bathing, the river banks being all trampled over by the cattle and exposed to the road it was not even possible to walk in the garden because the fence was broken and the peasants' cattle could get in, and the herd included a terrible bull that was given to bellowing and would therefore probably toss.

Before 1985, by contrast, financial markets were overwhelmingly dominated by the herd behavior of short term traders, people who sought not to identify fundamentals, but to predict what average opinion would expect average opinion to be, and to predict it before average opinion did. Thus, central bankers were stuck trying to control a world economy shocked by random changes in the animal spirits of investors and traders.

The heavier the hand, it seems, the stronger the resistance the stronger the resistance, the heavier the hand.

The also houses the (the Cathedral), the Baptistry and the (the monumental cemetery).

The bigger the bubble, the greater the collapse.

The drier the environment, the worse the problem.

The greater the rise, the greater the fall.