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In tree lizards, the male morphs are represented by differences in the coloration of the dewlap used in social communication.
The creature which is purely Indian is hump-backed, long horned, and sports a large dewlap.
In this species, males exhibit one of three ARTs that are correlated with variation in dewlap color.
Common sites of injection in birds include the wing web, wattle, dewlap, and interdigitary skin.
They have a large dewlap or fatty lump on the back of the neck which, among other things, is useful for stopping the yoke from slipping off.
This behaviour is sometimes coordinated with dewlap signaling, in which a male displays a large, colourful throat fan.
Thick and muscular with minimal dewlap, comparatively short, widening gradually toward shoulders.
The well defined dewlap starts at the level of the throat forming folds down to the chest, without hanging exaggeratedly.
The lower portion presents loose skin that contributes to the formation of a slight dewlap.
Most iguanids have small scales and a large dewlap, or loose fold of skin, situated beneath the head and neck.
Males are known to show territorialism and fight toward invading males by inflating the dewlap.
The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern.
The neck should not show excessive dewlap.
Their ears are generally large and pendulous, and the throatlatch and dewlap have a large amount of excess skin.
The skin is fine and does not form a dewlap.
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
Green anoles reach a maximum length of 18 cm and have a pink dewlap.
The powerful neck distinguishes Dogo Canarios from most other dog breeds. It is shorter than the total length of the head, with loose skin on the underside, forming a slight dewlap.
Their skin is dense and elastic, never forming folds or a dewlap.
Wrinkles on forehead and cheeks continue to form a dewlap.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then what sense is there in blistering, bleeding, and inserting setons in the dewlap?
Then Finn turned to his mate and affectionately licked her low-hanging ears, flews, and dewlap.
In doing so he noticed for the first time Dick's stitches in the hound's dewlap and shoulders.
About once in so long a tiny spasm of the muscles would contract the dewlap under his chin.
The chief peculiarity of the animal is its lack of a dewlap.
There must be no loose skin, such as dewlap, etc., in this region.
The dewlap is very slightly extensible, and but little developed.
Apply strong counterirritant to chest and put seton in dewlap.
The second secondary section connects the square of freedom in hopitalfranz dewlap through the bus station.
The male will approach and repeat the behavior, extending his dewlap and performing his stuttering push-up.
Fire burst from its mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
Anolis sagrei The colorful dewlap is displayed in the mating ritual, or to ward oil predators.
He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.
Put setons, or rowels in the dewlap, so as to have a dependent opening.
All stages of development are found on cattle, large wild ruminants and zebras, on which animals the ticks attach to the sides of the body, dewlap, shoulders and neck.
They have a fatty thoracic hump on their shoulders and a large dewlap.
Piney was prettier, with very even antlers and a huge dewlap.
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