Elfen Lied (Japanese: エルフェンリート, Hepburn: Erufen Rīto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's...

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (/ˌænɪˈmeɪliə/). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material...

is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrates and some other animals. Lying immediately behind the retina, it is a retroreflector. It reflects visible...

The characters in the Elfen Lied manga and anime series & movie were created by Lynn Okamoto, with character-design assistance from Seiji Kishimoto for...

this condition. Providing bedding or other padding in the areas the animal lies down can be helpful. In addition, trauma to the joint may occur during...

The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft), whereas...

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller. It...

lid or operculum made of four more plates. Inside the carapace, the animal lies on its stomach, projecting its limbs downwards. Segmentation is usually...

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon animals, either by...

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live...

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their...

Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species. Common mating or reproductively motivated systems include monogamy...

Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something...

Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare...

Service animals are working animals that have been trained to perform tasks that assist disabled people. Service animals may also be referred to as assistance...

texture not found in surface animals. Surface-dwelling animals tend to have longer fur with a natural tendency for the nap to lie in a particular direction...

Examination lied and 25% of the children in the Competence Examination lied. Talwar, Gordon, and Lee investigated whether children would lie to conceal...

Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm. He serves as second-in-command to Napoleon and is the farm's minister...

Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers)...

is that of a lizard lying in the sun on a hot rock in order to heat through radiation and conduction. An endotherm is an animal that regulates its own...

a pad of thick tissue over the sternum called the pedestal. When the animal lies down in a sternal recumbent position, the pedestal raises the body from...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; /ˈpiːtə/) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by...

subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those...

Animal colouration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Some animals are brightly...

fictional character and the main antagonist of George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he exiles Snowball, another...

fixation on non-human animals. Bestiality instead refers to cross-species sexual activity between humans and non-human animals. Due to the lack of research...

Set animal, or sha,[citation needed] is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also...

Animal Face-Off is an American television program that aired on the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in 2004. This program, produced by NHNZ, centers...

Animal roleplay is a form of roleplay where at least one participant plays the part of a non-human animal. As with most forms of roleplay, its uses include...

developmental biology, animal embryonic development, also known as animal embryogenesis, is the developmental stage of an animal embryo. Embryonic development...