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And we shouldn’t forget about the pigs—highly intelligent, emotionally sensitive creatures who are tormented by the extreme confinement that Proposition 12 discourages.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2022
Hogs are intelligent and sensitive creatures capable of multistage reasoning like dolphins and apes, with a social structure similar to that of elephants.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022
He and his collaborator, marine biologist Greg Rouse of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, babied the sensitive creatures, which require a constant supply of fresh seawater laden with the microbes they eat.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2021
Students were being encouraged to regard themselves as such exquisitely sensitive creatures that an errant classroom remark could impede their education, as such hothouse flowers that an unfunny joke was likely to create lasting trauma.
From Newsweek • Mar. 20, 2015
First impressions count enormously with sensitive creatures, and young women in Fancy's station of life are not much concerned with shades and gradations.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
