TERMIUM Plus®

The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank.

ANIMAL RIGHT [13 records]

Record 1 2023-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Ecosystems
CONT

Shoreline hardening is the clearing of the natural vegetation along the shore and into the water and putting in things like concrete docks and walls right next to the water's edge. Cutting the grass right to the water's edge is another way of hardening the shoreline. Water becomes dirty and both natural plants and animal communities are destroyed. This causes a dramatic loss of habitat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

Les marais intertidaux qui constituent l'habitat du gentianopsis élancé variété de Victorin ne sont pas rares le long de l'estuaire d'eau douce du Saint-Laurent. [...] Bien qu'il soit toujours possible que des projets de développement viennent empiéter sur l'habitat de l'espèce, son intégrité semble, à l'heure actuelle, davantage menacée par l'utilisation qu'en font les résidents et les villégiateurs : passage répété de véhicules hors route dans un même secteur, creusage du littoral pour l'installation de caches par les chasseurs, artificialisation de la rive par la coupe d'arbres ou l'érection de murets.

Spanish

Save record 1

Record 2 2021-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

Balanced Ration. Daily feed offered to an animal is considered balanced when it contains the essential nutrients needed by the animal in the right proportions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)

Spanish

Save record 2

Record 3 2013-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

(L) ive, wild animals were subject only to a qualified or defeasible property right, dependant(sic) upon actual physical control or possession, such property right being lost if the animal escaped and returned to its original state of wilderness, unless it could be shown that the animal was domesticated to such an extent that it had the "animus revertendi", the habit of returning to its owner.(Fryer, 3rd ed., 1938, p. 53-4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

À son propriétaire (pour un animal sauvage).

OBS

animus revertendi : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

Save record 3

Record 4 2012-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Breeding
DEF

The practical application of genetic analysis for development of lines of domestic animals suited to human purposes.

OBS

Assisted reproductive technologies, such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer and in vitro fertilization, have a long history of use as an integral part of domestic livestock breeding programs in Canada. More recently, it has become possible to produce copies of animals by asexual means, referred to as cloning.

OBS

The term "animal breeding" can also refer to "animal farming". Only the context can help determine the right translation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Amélioration génétique des animaux
CONT

Certaines techniques de reproduction assistée comme l'insémination artificielle, le transfert d'embryon et la fertilisation in vitro font depuis de nombreuses années partie intégrante des programmes d'amélioration des animaux d'élevage au Canada. Plus récemment, il est aussi devenu possible de reproduire ces animaux de manière asexuée, c'est-à-dire de les cloner.

OBS

Le but de l'amélioration génétique est de produire un animal avec un génotype lui permettant de produire le plus efficacement possible et de maximiser le profit de l'éleveur tout en considérant les contraintes de l'environnement dans lequel l'animal réalise sa production.

OBS

Le terme «animal breeding» peut également signifier «élevage des animaux» au sens large. Seul le contexte peut nous éclairer à ce sujet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mejoramiento genético de animales
DEF

Aplicación de los principios genéticos para mejorar al ganado.

CONT

El mejoramiento animal es el resultado de la sumatoria del potencial ambiental y el potencial genético. Una de las herramientas para cuantificar dicho potencial es la selección, la que lleva a cabo por medio de estimaciones del valor genético de los animales.

Save record 4

Record 5 2012-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
  • Legal System
  • Environmental Law
  • Protection of Farm Animals
DEF

A value theory and commitment that extends basic human protection in law and practice to animals.

OBS

The Animal Rights Movement goes beyond the humane treatment movement of earlier times. Animal rights advocates work for human reforms, but also advocates vegetarianism and in some cases veganism (eating no animal parts or products). Animal rights activists aim to end human exploitation and mistreatment of animals and see animals as having a certain level of sentience and with inherent rights that should ne protected by laws.

OBS

animal rights : rarely used in the singular(animal right) ;usually used in the plural, as a collective term.

OBS

Related concept: animal law [in French: "droit animal"], a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature—legal, social or biological—of animals is an important factor.

Key term(s)
  • animal right

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit environnemental
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Le mouvement [...] pour les droits des animaux ne s'occupe pas seulement de protection animale et de lois pour la protection animale, mais il met aussi en question l'acception fondamentale de notre représentation du monde : Pourquoi les humains seraient-ils plus importants que les animaux non humains ?

CONT

Le bien-être humain doit-il avoir préséance sur les droits des animaux? Y a-t-il une limite au transfert de gènes interespèces?

OBS

droits des animaux : terme très rarement au singulier (droit des animaux); utilisé au pluriel, comme collectif.

OBS

Notion apparentée : droit animal (en anglais : « animal law »), qui se rapporte à ce qui est exigible ou permis par conformité à une règle précise, formulée, comme une loi ou un règlement, en prenant en compte les animaux.

Key term(s)
  • droit des animaux

Spanish

Save record 5

Record 6 2011-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Reproduction
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A price paid by the owner of a female animal, such as a horse or a dog, to the owner of the male animal for the right to breed to it.

CONT

Stud fees can range from a small amount for a local male animal of unknown breeding to several hundred thousand dollars for the right to breed to a champion Thoroughbred race horse such as My Typhoon or Storm Cat, who have, at times, stood for fees of up to US$500, 000.

OBS

Stud fee: term frequently used in the plural in this context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reproduction des animaux
  • Élevage des chevaux
CONT

L'achat de la saillie comprend seulement les frais de saillie. Tous les autres frais (pensions, transport de semence, frais vétérinaires, etc.) sont aux frais de l'acheteur. Avant de procéder à l'achat d'une saillie, assurez-vous d'avoir pris connaissance des exigences de chaque étalonnier.

Spanish

Save record 6

Record 7 2008-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

Not just simple responses to an external stimulus play a role in instinctive behavior; instinctive activity involves sequences of behavior that run a predictable course. These behaviors may last seconds, minutes, hours or even days. Exemplifying this, we can refer to a particular species of digger wasp, which finds and captures only honeybees. With no previous experience, a female wasp will unearth an intricate burrow, find a bee, paralyze it with a careful and precise sting to the neck, pilot back to her discreet home, and, when the larder has been supplied with the correct number of bees, lay an egg on one of them and seal the chamber.... Overall, one of the main distinctive features of instinctive activity is the ability to react to an external stimulus the correct way the first chance(and every time thereafter) the animal receives. This feature distinguishes this particular behavior from what ethnologists call learned behavior, which scientists have discovered are actions that take place from conditioning an animal to learn the right way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
CONT

Le toilettage chez les animaux est une activité instinctive et pour partie parfois apprise et transmises aux générations suivantes (utilisation d'eau chaude, de terre, de feuilles ou de poussière par exemple).

Spanish

Save record 7

Record 8 2007-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The Canadian Association for Humane Trapping(CAHT) was founded in the late 1940's and received its national charter as a not-for-profit, charitable association from the Secretary of State on January 21, 1954. CAHT is a charitable, non-profit organization which works constructively toward abolishing the suffering imposed on wild animals by devices or trapping systems used to capture them. It is not a trapping, anti-trapping or animal rights organization. CAHT respects diverse philosophies and approaches while reserving the right to promote its own objectives. CAHT's mission is to abolish the pain and suffering of animals trapped for any reason. CAHT seeks to work with persons and institutions promoting humane trapping improvements benefiting wild animals and wildlife biologists, conservationists, the fur industry, governments and their officials, and to make practical progress to reduce and eliminate avoidable pain, suffering and injury of fur bearers.

OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmés par l'organisme.e

OBS

Proposition de traduction : Association canadienne du piégeage humanitaire.

Spanish

Save record 8

Record 9 2003-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

(...) the process of "torsion" involves a rotation of the mantle [of a young prosobranch gastropod], and [the] juvenile shell, with its enclosed viscera, through an angle of 180 degrees in relation to the velum(from which the head later develops) and the foot. As a result the mantle cavity comes to occupy an anterodorsal position, while the coiling of the shell assumes the endogastric direction typical of the adult gastropod. Effects of this torsion on the cells from which various organs of the adult animal later arise are far-reaching. Thus, when they develop, the nerve cords connecting the cerebral and pleural to the visceral ganglia are found to be crossed(...) rather like a figure 8, instead of being parallel. The gut has been twisted into a loop. It is, moreover obvious that the positions of the left and right ctenidia, osphradia, hypobranchial glands, heart auricles, and kidneys of the ancestral untorqued form become transposed as the result of torsion, so that when, as in most prosobranchs, only one of each of these organs remains, this, although now on the 6ft-hand side, represents the original right-hand organ.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[...] à la suite de [la] flexure [anopédieuse] amenant le sac viscéral vers l'avant, et avec lui le manteau qui l'enveloppe ainsi que la cavité palléale qui les sépare et contient les branchies, les Gastéropodes subissent une "torsion" de 180 degrés amenant le complexe palléal en position antéro-latérale, et se continuant par la progressive torsion spirale des viscères, du muscle columellaire et de la coquille [...]. Cette torsion non seulement affecte le sac viscéral et la coquille qui moule le manteau en leur imprimant une forme hélicoïdale, mais entraîne aussi le "chiasma" du système nerveux dont les ganglions, initialement placés à droite, vont prendre une position topographique gauche et "vice versa". Et surtout, la principale conséquence de la torsion hélicoïdale est d'avoir transformé les Gastéropodes en animaux dissymétriques: l'étude des parties molles prouve que les organes pairs du côté droit (côté gauche originel) sont plus petits que ceux du côté gauche, et peuvent même s'atrophier et disparaître.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
Save record 9

Record 10 2003-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
CONT

The movements of animals, quadruped and multiped, are crosswise, or in diagonals, and their equilibrium in standing posture is maintained crosswise; and it is always the limb on the right-hand side that is the first to move. The lion, however, and the two species of camels, both the Bactrian and the Arabian, progress by an amble; and the action so called is when the animal never overpasses the right with the left, but always follows close upon it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie
DEF

Pour le déplacement d'un animal, allure à deux temps (trot) caractérisée par le déplacement simultané d'un bipède latéral (membres antérieur et postérieur droits ou gauches).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Zootecnia
Save record 10

Record 11 1994-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neurosurgery
  • Surgical Instruments
CONT

Bone was removed from the skull [of the animal]. A micropositioner and microdrive could be fitted to the cylinder, in order to allow stimulation of both the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Neurochirurgie
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

Save record 11

Record 12 1989-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
OBS

In insurance it is most commonly met in connection with domestic animals. If the animal is normally very tame and docile, the owner has the right to assume that it will not suddenly become dangerous. If however, the owner has knowledge of will tendencies in the animal, he is obliged to protect others from injury and is liable in negligence for his failure to do so. From this comes the frequent reference that "a dog is entitled to one bite".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)

Spanish

Save record 12

Record 13 1977-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

In the apertural view of most coiled gastropod shells the aperture lies on the observer's right when the apex is uppermost; in other words, the shell, viewed from above the apex, coils in a clockwise direction as it grows. Such shells, provided that(...) the genitalia of the animal lie on the right-hand side of the head-foot mass or of the pallial cavity, are termed dextral.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Enfin, disons un mot des Gastéropodes sénestres, caractérisées par le sens de leur enroulement, énantiomorphe de celui des coquilles dextres.

Spanish

Save record 13

Copyright notice for the TERMIUM Plus® data bank

© Public Services and Procurement Canada, 2025
TERMIUM Plus®, the Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic data bank
A product of the Translation Bureau

Features

Language Portal of Canada

Access a collection of Canadian resources on all aspects of English and French, including quizzes.

Writing tools

The Language Portal’s writing tools have a new look! Easy to consult, they give you access to a wealth of information that will help you write better in English and French.

Glossaries and vocabularies

Access Translation Bureau glossaries and vocabularies.

Date Modified: