tranquilize

Zadeh said it was shortly before 1 p.m. when deputies were called to assist after a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

Since then, local forest authorities are trying to tranquilize the remaining cheetahs to check for any diseases.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

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

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

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

This week, we’ve got a non-RFK development in the charismatic spoiler candidate space, an Indiana congresswoman who loves to keep ’em guessing, and a heavily tranquilized Kraken being hauled off to the probation officer.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 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

There, the researchers count bears, tranquilizing and tagging some to collect data about their health.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2022

Comprised of keratin — the substance in human fingernails — rhino horn can grow back after it is trimmed, an operation that entails tranquilizing the animal.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

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