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Recent Examples of hand-feedThe Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered the technique over 40 years ago, using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981.—Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025 The puppies went to one foster home, where they were hand-fed every few hours.—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 Timothy Treadwell, an amateur environmentalist, spent 13 summers filming himself among Alaskan grizzly bears, naming them, petting them, sometimes hand-feeding them, until one of them killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003.—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025 Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025 Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.—Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024 But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
The agency, whose fewer than 1,900 federal employees oversee the more than 60,000 contractors who build and maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal, has struggled to fill crucial safety roles.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
Located on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Seward is also the gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park, and the downtown is filled with murals and various art galleries.
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