They are large, burrowing, nocturnal animals, with strong claws and a thick coat. |
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The lions get their own type of rock to lie on, and burrowing animals actually get a burrow to play in. |
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Like digging, studying the mechanics of burrowing is also tough, because, well, it happens underground. |
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Constructing concrete spillways may reduce or prevent damage to dams caused by burrowing beavers. |
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Busy, often burrowing insects such as tok-tokkies and sunspiders scuttle across the desert floor. |
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Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells. |
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While burrowing, caecilians employ concertina locomotion, lateral undulation, and vermiform locomotion. |
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Definitely ends of such units show only a ventral furrow and traces of continuous burrowing are always bilobed. |
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Spines and tube feet surrounding the peristome function in locomotion, burrowing, and food-gathering. |
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The interesting holes and caverns beneath them shelter shade-loving creatures such as burrowing anemones and peacock worms. |
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The outer trophoblast cells of the released blastocyst begin to invade the epithelium, burrowing into the underlying endometrial stroma. |
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The larva of the soldier beetle will feed on small insects before burrowing in for the winter. |
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Paisley had a gecko to release and we saw two bilbies and two burrowing bettongs. |
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Higher up, grasslands are home to burrowing owls, chukars, and peregrine and prairie falcons. |
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A burrowing insect, the sun spider thrives in the high desert environment and is attracted by light. |
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Dial-up users should bring a large cuppa when burrowing into their first use of this tool. |
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The software does the hard work of burrowing into your contact book, minimizing the number of modal shifts. |
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This creates the illusion that one is experiencing reality unmediated, burrowing into the truth of existence. |
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At the moment, the US media are burrowing into two issues from Dean's past. |
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His blue eyes felt like they were burrowing into her soul searching for something hidden. |
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In the spirit of the Kaminski Test, I have been burrowing into those social networking sites that seem to engender creativity. |
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The next thing I know, I'm yawning to myself, and burrowing underneath my covers, rubbing my eyes as I slowly awaken. |
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Adrianna crawled into the bed, moving close to the wall and burrowing up underneath the covers. |
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Next thing you know, you're entombed in 136 tons of garbage and burrowing through your house via a system of intricate tunnels. |
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At a finer scale, species differences in rooting density influence the suitability of soils for burrowing by gophers. |
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First, it is likely that the bag fragment was carried underground by a squirrel, gopher or other burrowing rodent. |
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Katherine nodded, burrowing even closer to Orion, wanting to forget everything that had been revealed to her. |
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The toads must aestivate during the summer, burrowing down into the soil to survive the heat. |
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The bundle of clothes stirred and a fairly groggy Sukari sat up, hair surprisingly kempt despite her burrowing into the pillows during the night. |
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Rats are routinely moving into yards, burrowing beneath doghouses, sheds, sidewalks, and hiding out in woodpiles. |
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Many burrowing animals, from weasels to worm lizards, have smaller limbs today. |
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The depluming itch mite is a burrowing mite that can cause feather loss and stimulate cannibalism. |
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I curled into a ball, burrowing further into the bushes and keeping myself hidden. |
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The mounds are of zoogenic origin, originally created by termites and often colonized by a wide variety of burrowing animals. |
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The flashing was buried approximately 5 cm deep to reduce the chance of shrews burrowing underneath. |
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Some not-so-familiar creatures, like the legless, burrowing caecilians, are also amphibians. |
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It plummets to the icy surface of the Antarctic, burrowing deep within the ground. |
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Many species depend on the prairie dog for food or habitat, such as the swift fox, burrowing owl, and ferruginous hawk. |
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It exploded in the forest a mile away, the ground shaking violently, as if a terrible beast was burrowing through the ground. |
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However, the second cell must be maintained to keep weeds from growing or rodents from burrowing and potentially damaging the liner. |
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These tiny parasites have been burrowing under your spiritual armour for way too long now. |
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The burrowing activities of earthworms increase the soil horizons most conducive to worm health and growth rate. |
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The swamp eel is predaceous, grows to about 1 m in length, and can survive dry periods by burrowing in mud. |
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The larvae of flatworms burrowing into your skin cause this nasty little disease! |
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Studies show the crabs can also cause serious damage by burrowing into banks and earthworks along rivers. |
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Long-billed curlews, burrowing owls, chestnut-collared and McCowan's longspurs summer in the park. |
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The only signs of the burrowing molluscs are their water intake and outlet openings, just visible at the surface of a muddy seabed. |
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But if they find a rat in the cellar, or rabbits start burrowing in their prize rose beds, they are on the phone like a shot. |
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Terror filled his veins as he saw a trail of dust rushing towards him from what seemed to be a great creature burrowing under the soil. |
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His temples burned and his sores itched, like a thousand worms underneath his skin, crawling and burrowing deeper, ever deeper inside him. |
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The pinnae of the ears are large and can fold back to protect the ears while the aardvark is burrowing. |
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Lingulids are shallow burrowing infaunal filter feeders of the shallow intertidal zone. |
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The animal had to retreat from its previous burrow basally and start burrowing again nearby. |
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Burrowing behind the putrefaction that lines the intestinal walls, they consume and destroy harmful microorganisms. |
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But nevertheless, parents should be inspecting the nostrils of their young ones, searching for sugar residue and burrowing larvae. |
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Like Gervais, Merchant revels in burrowing into the most uncomfortable of situations and refusing to leave. |
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Dylan Byers at Politico is smelling a traffic breakthrough by burrowing after MSNBC and Andrea Mitchell about Wawagate. |
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It seems that because burrowing can cause landslips in quarries, residents of Portland instead call the creatures underground mutton or furry things. |
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Becker and Wahl, in a series of experiments to test for antifouling mechanisms in crabs, concluded that behavior such as burrowing played the largest role in antifouling. |
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The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space. |
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Consider a worm burrowing parallel to a straight segment of trail. |
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The foxes in winter remind Thoreau of rudimental, burrowing men. |
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A related species, the burrowing bettong, will scavenge sheep carcasses. |
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In their search for food, most of which is comprised of burrowing rodents, badgers tear up large areas of earth with powerful digging claws on their forefeet. |
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Boxfish, also known as trunkfish or cowfish, can be found in warm ocean waters, where they linger near the seafloor to hunt for burrowing invertebrates. |
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Thus some shallow water marine annelid worms contain considerable quantities of porphyrins in their tissues, but are tubicolous or burrowing in habit. |
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Three separate escalators lead down to the platforms from the big blue cavern, each burrowing down between separate arches of the Victorian viaduct above. |
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This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck. |
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The candiru feeds parasitically by burrowing into body orifices, jamming itself in place using barbs along its sides then drinking the blood of its victim. |
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The sandy patches yield burrowing starfish, rare delicate tube anemones, heart urchins, peacock flounders, and many species of nudibranch and sea hare. |
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This widespread myth has its origin in the southern states where pests with similar names such as jigger flea or the chigoes do attack by burrowing under skin. |
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Where analytical ideation stands apart is that the group is next led through a burrowing process where the ideas conceived are explored more deeply. |
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Before obtaining the ring he was an inquisitive child with odd interests, who enjoyed causing mischief and solitary activities such as burrowing under trees to look at roots. |
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There are also sand crabs burrowing in the sand, which make good bait too. |
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A small percentage of Burrowing Owls from migratory populations may remain on their breeding grounds year-round. |
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Burrowing heart urchins have bands of very fine spines that are termed fascioles that help them live in fine sediments. |
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Female burrowing owls commonly travel and find other mates, while the male stays in his territory and mates with other females. |
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Among these, A-type is striated muscle fiber observed mainly in propodium, which enables fast shortening of the foot when crawling or burrowing. |
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Occasionally, badger bones may be discovered in strata from much earlier dates, due to the burrowing habits of the animal. |
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It is nocturnal and is a social, burrowing animal that sleeps during the day in one of several setts in its territorial range. |
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The superficial burrowing could be due in part to the soil that is much harder, which makes burrowing a greater challenge. |
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The nails of burrowing species tend to be long and strong, while arboreal rodents have shorter, sharper nails. |
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Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. |
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The activities of burrowing animals and fish have a dramatic churning effect on muddy seabeds. |
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This decline has been attributed to disruption by grazing and burrowing animals. |
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Gerbils are naturally desert animals and there they can survive the heat by burrowing deep into the sand where it is cool. |
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Geoducks are among the world's longest living animals, reaching up to 150 years in age and are also the biggest burrowing clams in the world. |
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Small, burrowing rodents such as the deer mouse, for instance, spread the deadly hantavirus, and squirrels often carry sylvatic plague. |
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The sixth prosomal appendage is modified in both xiphosurids and chasmataspidids for use in locomotion or burrowing. |
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Only 31 species have been documented to use burrows of desert tortoises, including two birds, the common poorwill and burrowing owl. |
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The burrowing activities of oligochaetes can often prevent tubicolous polychaetes from becoming established in a particular habitat. |
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Nigua, pique, jigger, chigoe, puce-chique, and tchique are only a few of the many names that have been given to this burrowing flea. |
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But there have been other beauties, such as a vermilion flycatcher, an Andean condor and a burrowing owl. |
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Nine vertebrate species, including the mountain plover, burrowing owl, golden eagle, and ferruginous hawk are said to depend on prairie dogs. |
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The burrowing birds are also known as the sea parrot because of their brightly-coloured beaks, and Farne birds can live for more than 20 years. |
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During my short drive I saw red-shouldered hawks, northern caracara, swallow-tailed kites, burrowing owls, and loggerhead shrikes. |
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Hydraulic burrowing in the bivalve Mya arenaria Linnaeus and associated ligamental adaptations. |
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Our wild animals consist of bobcat, mountain lion, badgers, raccoon, kangaroo mice, newts and a gray burrowing critter about the size of a hand. |
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Strongylosis or 'grouse disease' is caused by the strongyle worm, which induces damage and internal bleeding after burrowing into the cecum. |
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Most psammophilic species have expanded tibiae that function as shovels when these beetles are burrowing. |
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Generally, vision is best in arboreal snakes and weakest in burrowing snakes. |
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Subterranean species evolved bodies streamlined for burrowing, and eventually lost their limbs. |
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Additionally, two seroconversions were detected in burrowing owls between January and March. |
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Male burrowing owls have been observed to have longer wing chords than females, despite being smaller than females. |
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In extreme cases, when there is a lack of suitable burrowing grounds, badgers may move into haystacks in winter. |
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He recalled sightings last year of burrowing owls, lark sparrows and horned larks adjacent to the park in a small unplanted field. |
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A novel, simple, safe and effective trap for Burrowing Owls and other fossorial animals. |
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But it could also be simply down to implantation bleeding, 10-14 days after conception, when the fertilised egg is burrowing into the lining of the womb. |
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Hand-reared sacred ibis Tutan, kookaburra Maidi, red-legged seriema Sergio, ageing eagle owl Ludwig and burrowing owls Bilbo and Hercules are among the birds to have perished. |
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According to other Khanty, the mammoth was a creature that lived underground, burrowing its tunnels as it went, and would die if it accidentally came to the surface. |
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Webb thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted. |
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Indeed, as burrowing became established, it allowed an explosion of its own, for as burrowers disturbed the sea floor, they aerated it, mixing oxygen into the toxic muds. |
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As we carefully walked among the coral, our favorite was the burrowing clam, whose mouthlike openings are brightly colored in burgundy and aquamarine. |
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Lord Henry was a great electioneerer, Burrowing for boroughs like a rat or rabbit. |
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According to both Strabo and Pliny the Elder, the multiplying rabbits caused famines by destroying crop yields, and even collapsed trees and houses with their burrowing. |
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By the end of the Cambrian, burrowing animals had destroyed the mats in many areas through bioturbation, and gradually turned the seabeds into what they are today. |
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The benthic zone or seabed provides a home for both static organisms, anchored to the substrate, and for a large range of organisms crawling on or burrowing into the surface. |
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Burrowing bivalves are infauna that filter-feed from within seafloor sediments. |
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A strong affinity for prairie dog colonies is typical of Burrowing Owls in regions where prairie dogs are present. |
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Like other badger species, European badgers are burrowing animals. |
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The Ediacaran biota suffered a mass extinction at the start of the Cambrian Period, which corresponded to an increase in the abundance and complexity of burrowing behaviour. |
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In South Dakota, Burrowing Owls are closely associated with colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs. |
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We discovered a small, inactive colony on the crest of southern coastal cliffs in 2002 that were unlike rabbit or Burrowing Owl burrows, and appeared to belong to shearwaters. |
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