tranquilize

When a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat, the officer missed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

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

A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was able to tranquilize the moose, but the animal wasn’t completely unconscious.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The bear was tranquilized and later shot and killed last month after wildlife personnel confirmed they had the right bear — a call based on a distinctive patch of fur on her back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

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

FWC personnel were called to assist, and they safely tranquilized and captured the panther, according to WBBH-TV.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

“Nanuq here was tranquilized and spent a month in Polar Bear Jail before being released back into the wild,” George explained.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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

There are two steam rooms, too, one offering the opportunity to recline on a contoured marble bed, like a body on a slab in a healthful mausoleum filled with a thick, humid, tranquilizing cloud.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 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