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单词 hyrax
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Looking across the valley, they watched for elephants, and they saw rock hyraxes—furry animals the size of groundhogs—running up and down the boulders near the mouth of the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Kenyan naturalists trapped and netted hundreds of birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
A rock hyrax, an animal the size and shape of a beaver but, oddly enough, a relative of the elephant, was sunning itself on a rock by the front gate. Journeys: An Israeli Oasis as a Passage to Ancient Times 2010-09-12T08:01:00Z
For a half an hour the Brebners and I followed the eagles on their hunt for hyraxes. A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z
Like their much larger cousins, hyraxes have strong molars to grind vegetation and two incisor teeth that grow out to tiny tusks. New at the zoo
Keepers at Longleat Safari Park have welcomed the surprise arrival of Arabian rock hyrax triplets. Longleat: 'Rock rabbit' babies make surprise arrival at park 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z
He placed it in a satchel made of hyrax hide, warding away the bees while he gathered golden hunks of honeycomb so flavorful they left a burn in the throat like whiskey. Indigenous Kenyans are putting their trust in the government — even as they’re evicted 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z
I was in South Africa recently, and I visited Table Mountain, home to the rock hyrax, a small thing that looks like a rodent. Why our close encounters with wildlife are so risky for the animals 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z
The largest sea lions are twice as big as the largest bears, for example, and manatees outweigh their cat-size hyrax cousins by nearly 500 kilograms. Sea mammals are huge for a reason 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z
Besides giraffes, the African exhibit will include a lion, hyrax, wildebeest and tortoise. Young giraffe dies at Pennsylvania zoo after neck injury 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z
Despite their rodent-like appearance, the hyrax's nearest living relatives are elephants and they have tusk-like incisors which are larger and sharper in males. Longleat: 'Rock rabbit' babies make surprise arrival at park 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z
Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not. People are hunting primates, bats, and other mammals to extinction 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z
But studies of rock hyrax calls appear to show that they employ syntax. These dolphins talk to each other. Why do we insist it isn’t language? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z
To figure out who's who around hyraxes, use your ears: Males sing to attract females, while females don't sing at all. How Can You Tell a Female Animal From a Male?
Little rodent-like hyraxes reportedly lived in the rafters and ate at the dinner table. ‘Animated Life: Mary Leakey’ 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z
In contrast, humans sport only two copies of the gene for p53, and so does elephants’ closest living relative, the rock hyrax. How elephants crush cancer 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z
Their motley branch on the tree of life was named Afrotheria and includes aardvarks, sea cows such as dugongs and manatees, elephants, hyraxes and Madagascar's tenrec. Secrets of the speedy elephant shrew 2014-01-16T02:56:51Z
Like hyraxes, their molariform teeth indicate that they were browsing herbivores though, again, the biggest taxa were probably only slightly larger than the largest living sengis. A brief history of sengis, or elephant shrews 2013-06-15T19:45:14.830Z
Daman, dam′an, n. the Syrian hyrax, the cony of the Bible. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z
Jack skinned the hyrax, while I looked about for the means to kindle the dry branches I had collected, to cook it. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z
Another well-established example of deceptive looks in the animal kingdom involves the rock hyrax, elephant and manatee. Remarkable Creatures: A Lesson of Genealogy: Looks Can Be Deceiving 2011-05-23T21:43:17Z
It is true there was much reason in his holding to the opinion that the hyrax is no pachyderm. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z
At about nine o’clock in the evening we could see a fire shining from a neighbouring mountain, and we supposed that the Bushmen were having a feast of grilled hyrax for their supper. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa
Despite anatomic theories, then, we shall continue to regard the hyrax—the coney of the Scriptures—as a rabbit, and not a rhinoceros! Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
I shook my head as I pointed to the fresh skin of the hyrax, the smell of which had no doubt attracted the animal. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z
In addition, all have very long gestation periods; the hyrax’s is seven to eight months, which is exceptional for a relatively small mammal. Remarkable Creatures: A Lesson of Genealogy: Looks Can Be Deceiving 2011-05-23T21:43:17Z
The skeleton of the rhinoceros viewed generally has a resemblance to that of the little hyrax, the tapir, and the horse. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
The tree hyraxes, out-screeched and outnumbered, fell into silence or withdrew. The Leopard Woman
The elephant has developed along a separate and very distinctive line, as we shall see, and the hyrax is a primitive survivor of the ancestral group. The Story of Evolution
From the darkened mysterious forest the tree hyraxes, excited by the numerous fires and the voices of so large an encampment, were wailing and shrieking. The Leopard Woman
The hyrax has four toes on the front foot and three on the hind foot, and the feet are flat. The Story of Evolution
In size it must have been something like the rabbit or the hyrax. The Story of Evolution
Almost a dead stillness fell on the clearing, so that in the falling twilight the tree hyraxes took heart and began to utter their demoniac screams. The Leopard Woman
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