such elements as water, earth, creatures like plants and animals, and balanced biological relations among them comprise the natural order. such a rich resource is a grand divine bounty bestowed upon living creatures, so that while all creatures enjoy and use these resources, human beings would be able to develop land and earth, and provide all with a suitable habitat. thus the right to use such...

In this work, an interaction model between artificial life agents (creatures) is proposed, which allows studying emergent social behavior of agents. This model describes the environment of artificial life and autonomous creatures in terms of goal-states, rules of behavior based on agents’ goals and actions, initial knowledge and the use of communication instructions. For the case of study, the ...

The article concerns the assessment of resisting and combating danger from animals. problem seems particularly important point view variety laws governing protection animals: as creatures capable feeling pain or suffering, being someone else’s property, in connection with environment. In each above ranges legislator has foreseen criminal responsibility for behavior that violates them. It is obv...

Using animals as research subjects in medical investigations is widely condemned on two grounds: first, because it wrongly violates the rights of animals, and second, because it wrongly imposes on sentient creatures much avoidable suffering. Neither of these arguments is sound. The first relies on a mistaken understanding of rights; the second relies on a mistaken calculation of consequences. B...

Determining longitude is incredibly difficult--for humans. Are animals fooling us into thinking that they have bicoordinate maps? New experiments show that at least some creatures effortlessly solve the seemingly insoluble problem of longitude.

This article discusses the biopolitics of coronavirus pandemic practiced on both human and non-human animals. I begin by introducing idea othering. then bring two animals, bats minks, together to explain role in manipulating bodies In particular, compare discourses surrounding animals that frame as wild minks productive— categorization disembodies subjects them exploitation. also examine enviro...

Dexterous physical interactions with virtual creatures are important to bring the fun of playing with animals into arts and entertainment. For reality of interaction, virtual creatures need to react to highly varied user inputs in a variety of ways according to physical and psychological laws. We propose constructing virtual creatures using a physical simulator, sensor/attention models, and phy...