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Example sentences for "these animals"

  • Lieutenant Beechey succeeded in killing one of these animals, by lying down quietly, and imitating the voice of a fawn, when the deer immediately came up to him within gunshot.

  • The sportsmen went out early in the morning, and soon after met with a musk-ox feeding on a spot of luxuriant pasture-ground, covered with the dung of these animals as well as of deer.

  • It is extraordinary that we could never succeed in killing or catching one of these animals, though we were for months almost constantly endeavouring to do so.

  • No one will suppose that the stripes on the whelp of a lion, or the spots on the young blackbird, are of any use to these animals, or are related to the conditions to which they are exposed.

  • In such cases, and endless instances could be given, no one supposes that the fertility of these animals or plants has been suddenly and temporarily increased in any sensible degree.

  • Knowing the cleverness of these animals, Alec had taken his position behind a rock, and there, with trigger drawn back, he awaited his oncoming.

  • It was very much enjoyed by all, as the meat of these animals is good, tasting something like young pork, with a gamey flavour.

  • I learned from him that there are very few of these animals remaining in this part of the country.

  • We were always warned on entering one of these long stretches, by the bones of these animals, which had perished before they could reach the water.

  • I have examined very carefully more than forty genera of these animals--many of them very rare, and some quite new.

  • Unfortunately for science, but fortunately for me, this method appears to have been somewhat novel with observers of these animals, and consequently everywhere new and remarkable facts were to be had for the picking up.

  • We have had occasion before to speak of these animals, and as they are not conspicuous or commonly-known forms of life, it may be well to say a few words as to the structure of the living representatives of the group.

  • The Corals are very numerously represented in the Upper Silurian rocks some of the limestones (such as the Wenlock Limestone) being often largely composed of the skeletons of these animals.

  • The same rule applies to a cat, and they will throw away an earthen vessel touched by either of these animals.

  • Frazer, that the corn-spirit takes refuge in the body of one of these animals.

  • His pride in these animals is excusable, for they are most admirably suited to the circumstances in which nature has placed them, and possess a very wide-extended fame.

  • If the barnacle is not familiar to readers, certain near relations of these animals must be well known, by sight at least, as amongst the most familiar denizens of our sea-coast.

  • Look now at the alcoves, the homes of these animals; see how tiny they are and how closely they fit together.

  • Sir John thus states two popular beliefs of his time and of days prior to his age, namely, that crocodiles move their upper jaws, and that a tongue was absent in these animals.

  • Radermacher has had the kindness to send me the skull of one of these animals, which measured fifty-three inches, or four feet five inches, in height.

  • All observers testify to the prodigious volume of voice possessed by these animals.

  • These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion.

  • The chief value of these animals is in their ivory tusks, which, being harder than those of the elephant, and not so liable to turn yellow, are much more esteemed by dentists.

  • These animals appear in vast numbers, proceeding from the mountain towards the sea, devouring every product of the soil, and, after consuming everything eatable in their course, they at last devour each other.

  • These animals, our only companions for miles, can live almost without water, which is naturally very scarce on chalk formations, since the rain when it falls is absorbed almost immediately.

  • Such was the accuracy acquired in the art of stone-throwing at these animals, that even stooping down in the road and pretending to lift a stone often caused the most savage dog to retreat quickly.

  • It might have been a rat or more likely a cat, but as we did not care for the company of either of these animals, we lost no time in regaining the road.

  • These animals are of so simple a structure, that Cuvier has arranged them with the intestinal worms, though never found within the bodies of other animals.

  • The habits of life of these animals were a complete puzzle to naturalists, until Professor Owen [4] solved the problem with remarkable ingenuity.

  • These animals, at Maldonado, were very tame; by cautiously walking, I approached within three yards of four old ones.

  • Considerable tracts of country are so completely undermined by these animals, that horses in passing over, sink above their fetlocks.

  • These animals browse on the bushes in the environs of their habitations, and are continually increasing and multiplying.

  • The back and sides of the skins of these animals are of a red brown, and of a vivid white underneath.

  • Pictures and anecdotes of the migrations of these animals, and of the bison in former days, represent them as moving on a broad front across the prairie or tundra.

  • Travellers tell many interesting tales of the play of these animals, especially on the Pampas of South America.

  • These animals have a great advantage over man, for their armour grows upon their bodies and is a part of them, while man must put his on and take it off and continually replace the worn-out parts.

  • No one who has ever visited a zoological park and seen the crowded monkey and baboon cages can have failed to note the wonderful play of these animals.

  • Thus it is seen that the warmth of the sea determines the distribution of the corals; the geography of these animals is defined by degrees of temperature.

  • Evidences of Ideation in Apes Reliable literature of any sort concerning the behavior and mental life of the anthropoid apes is difficult to find, and still more rare are reports concerning experimental studies of these animals.

  • I had in mind the behavioristic form of the perennial questions: Do these animals think, do they reason, and if so, what is the nature of these processes as indicated by the characteristics of their adaptive behavior?

  • What Hobhouse has called articulate ideas, I believe to appear infrequently in these animals.

  • In fact, the really excellent articles on the behavior and mental life of these animals may be counted on one's fingers; and not more than half of these are experimental studies.

  • I shall say nothing of the internal structure of any of these animals, because it does not affect the comparison of their different forms and the external arrangement of parts, which is the subject of the present article.

  • The natural attitude of these animals is different from that of the other Echinoderms: they lie on one side, and move with the oral opening forward, and this has been one cause of the mistakes as to their true nature.


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