| 单词 | peahen |
| 例句 | Like how many times peahens had used a certain nest. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Peacocks and peahens don’t have much of a bird song — they emit a sharp “caw” that is “not cute,” Lewis said — but other birds have found themselves in conversation with the 31-year-old whistler. Whistling as an Art Almost Died Off. Can Molly Lewis Keep It Alive? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The classic example is the peacock's tail, which is in every sense except its attractiveness to us and to peahens, a liability. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z A peacock and a peahen screech at each other at the base of a classical construction in a park. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z The photo on the left shows a peacock with a bright blue body and flared tail feathers standing next to a brown, drab peahen. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr Blunt has bought a peahen mate for Toby in the hope that she will improve his mood so he can regain his freedom. Car park ban for peacock which 'trashed' BMW 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z One reason is simple mate choice; for example, female peahens may prefer peacocks with bigger, brighter tails. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The project consists of dogs, cats, a small cohort of horses, and one peahen. Can any animal learn to speak with buttons like Bunny the "talking" dog does? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z According to peafowl expert and former teacher Dennis Fett, also known as “Mr. Peacock,” introducing a peahen may not be easy. The very British story of Kevin, the pandemic peacock 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The peahens, it must be said, appear generally unimpressed. Column: With California reopening, L.A. Arboretum charts a safe path for people and peacocks 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z He said he hoped that giving Toby a potential mate would curb his urge to attack cars, but so far the peahen was "playing hard to get". Car park ban for peacock which 'trashed' BMW 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The peacock and peahen - named for the late Frank and Elizabeth Harden, former owners of the estate now known as Harrybrooke Park - were unveiled to more than 100 guests at the park. New Milford welcomes peacocks back to Harrybrooke Park 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z All they knew was that peahens perked up and paid attention to recordings of these “infrasounds,” even though they couldn’t see the males. Watch a peacock get a female’s attention—by making her head vibrate 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z His staff, which recently received initial damage estimates from the zoo’s insurance carrier of $4.5 million, is still mourning the creatures lost, including a peahen named Katy Perry. In the nation’s ‘hail alley,’ fierce storms and booming growth are on a costly collision course 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Generation after generation, peahens chose peacocks with the most impressive plumage, producing the peacock’s uncamouflageable tail. Summer reads: Darwin’s dilemma on sexual selection, ecology versus empire, and the dark side of the greater good 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Miller sees humans showing off through our consumer purchases much as peacocks impress peahens with their tails. How market research revolutionised advertising and shopping 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The peahen escaped again and he is now awaiting more sightings. Elusive peahen on the run in Norwich for two weeks - BBC News 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Then, without warning, the peahen swooped down on shelves in the middle of the store. Fowl act: Peahen goes on a rampage inside Arcadia liquor store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In all, Ghanem said the peahen was in the store for 90 minutes and broke $500 worth of the family store's best bottles, including champagne. Peacock Destroys $500 Worth of Alcohol at LA Liquor Store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Fett bought three eggs and hatched Junior, a black shoulder peahen. Iowa farmers find niche in exotic birds 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z There are 30 peacocks and peahens roaming loose in the village of Ushaw Moor, County Durham. 10 things we didn't know last week - BBC News 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The peahen lives on Hidden View farm, a 100-acre garden and preserve, with three other peafowl. Annapolis peahen that eluded capture returns home on her own 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z While peafowl are a common site in Arcadia — the bird is emblazoned on the city seal and the creatures roam freely through the city — Ghanim and other locals can’t stop talking about the boozy peahen. Fowl act: Peahen goes on a rampage inside Arcadia liquor store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Without a peep, the peahen strutted into the open door of the Royal Oaks Liquors in Arcadia on Monday. Peacock Destroys $500 Worth of Alcohol at LA Liquor Store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Children were throwing stones at two peahens at a farm. D.C. Animal Watch A Humane Society officer responding to a call about a peahen running in the street captured the bird, found eating mulberries on the side of the road, and took it to the shelter. D.C. Animal Watch In experiments, each peahen was placed alongside two peacocks in an outdoor enclosure. Eye-trackers help scientists study how peacock tails lure peahens 2013-08-12T20:56:54Z About five minutes into the video, the peahen flapped her wings violently and bottles began to fall. Fowl act: Peahen goes on a rampage inside Arcadia liquor store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In the evolutionary game, where the goal is producing offspring, rampant dishonesty is not an optimal strategy: If peacock tails are never honest, peahens will simply ignore that feature altogether. Hunger Game: Is Honesty Between Animals Always the Best Policy? 2013-01-10T15:15:00.263Z Twitter was abuzz with sightings, remarks and, naturally, a fake account by the peahen. A Mystery Peacock Wanders Queens 2012-08-22T01:22:27Z The peahen should, of course, be permitted to take charge of one set of eggs. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z There she met a peahen, and that peahen made friends with her and asked her name. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z On Monday, the 21-year-old was working at his uncle’s Arcadia liquor store when a female peafowl, or peahen, strolled through the open front door and startled a customer. Fowl act: Peahen goes on a rampage inside Arcadia liquor store 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahens dance on a smooth lawn, A parrot sways upon a tree, Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z In May 2011, a peahen escaped the Bronx Zoo, evading zoo workers as it wandered the streets. A Mystery Peacock Wanders Queens 2012-08-22T01:22:27Z For a while, the menagerie included a peahen, but no longer. City Room: For Jim, Phil and Harry, Cathedral Grounds Are Home 2012-01-31T23:58:45Z The peahen said, "No, I have never seen one." Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z The peahen is a plain, homely looking bird, lacking the gorgeous tail which adorns her lord and master. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The peahens were merely curious and impertinent; but the geese were alarmingly intrusive. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z In May, a peahen also escaped from the Bronx Zoo, but was quickly recaptured in a nearby garage. Escaped peacock returns to New York's Central Park Zoo 2011-08-03T17:58:27Z In May, a peahen fled the Bronx Zoo. Peacock escapes from New York zoo 2011-08-03T05:55:31Z Then the peahen said, "I have a husband too, and he is very beautiful." Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z In May a peahen, a peacock's female, fled the Bronx Zoo. Peacock escapes New York's Central Park zoo 2011-08-03T01:23:01Z “He is a regular Mount Ophir in himself, and,” he added to himself, “has a flaunting peacock—I mean peahen—of his own.” One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z This indeed is the case to a certain extent, with some birds, as we have seen with the peahen, wild turkey, and certain kinds of grouse. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z He said that mentioning the missing peahen and the missing cobra in the same breath was an “unfair comparison.” Citizens? Arrest: Repair-Shop Workers Put End to Peahen?s Ramble 2011-05-12T03:10:29Z The peahen apparently covered more ground than an Egyptian cobra that vanished in March. City Room: Escaped Peahen Is Returned to Zoo 2011-05-11T16:26:12Z This time the escapee was a wily brown and green peahen, who was spotted roaming the streets — and dodging zoo workers — at least twice on Tuesday. Another Bronx Getaway, This Time Without the Scales 2011-05-11T02:56:16Z They also report, however, additional work suggesting a new explanation for why peahens sometimes don’t appear to care about eyespot number. The Eyespots Have it After All 2011-04-26T16:06:00Z We should remember the fact given on excellent authority in a former chapter, namely that several peahens, when debarred from an admired male, remained widows during a whole season rather than pair with another bird. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z They carried the peahen inside and put an end to her wandering with a rope tied around one leg; they tied the other end to a pipe. Citizens? Arrest: Repair-Shop Workers Put End to Peahen?s Ramble 2011-05-12T03:10:29Z The peahen that escaped on Wednesday was found in a garage on Thursday. City Room: Escaped Peahen Is Returned to Zoo 2011-05-11T16:26:12Z And he unloosed his doublet, and opened his vest, making his breast bare for the peahen to come and peck out his heart. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z I just remember that he had a neck like a three-decker, and a voice like a peahen's. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. We should remember the fact given on excellent authority in a former chapter that several peahens, when debarred from an admired male, remained widows during a whole season rather than pair with another bird. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Mr. Matos said that in the 30 to 40 minutes the peahen spent inside his shop, she became a neighborhood attraction. Citizens? Arrest: Repair-Shop Workers Put End to Peahen?s Ramble 2011-05-12T03:10:29Z Peck walked into the store, proud as a peahen. In a Little Town At midnight the eight peahens lifted their heads, and said, "Sister, why did you fail last night?" Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Run out to the terrace and see if the peahen has laid an egg. Prince Vance The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box It was, indeed, the most beautiful stew in the world, being made of partridges, and pheasants, and chickens, and hares, and rabbits, and peahens, and guinea-fowls, and one or two other things. The Wind in the Willows That led to a visit from the zoo’s director, who swept the peahen into his arms. Citizens? Arrest: Repair-Shop Workers Put End to Peahen?s Ramble 2011-05-12T03:10:29Z Ha! ha! ha! she looked sour indeed, and she screeched at me in her peahen voice: "Mademoiselle de Grävenitz seems to be a lady of experience; she can guard her own young virtue, I suppose!" A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg In the morning the peahens came rustling down out of the elm, and went searching for fat carnation buds and anemone seeds among the flower-beds in the garden. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z See on the mountain slope above The peahen languishing with love. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The peacock is really the Papa bird, and the Mamma bird is called the peahen. The Wonders of the Jungle Book One The peahen posed no danger, though neither did the cobra, he said, since it never left the Reptile House. Citizens? Arrest: Repair-Shop Workers Put End to Peahen?s Ramble 2011-05-12T03:10:29Z Peacocks' tails, he thinks, are the result of the admiration of blue tails in the minds of well-bred peahens,—and similarly, mandrills' noses the result of the admiration of blue noses in well-bred baboons. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers They stood some way apart, watching with upturned heads, and their poor throats began catching back a wish to cry as the little peahen, the last of the sisters, came and stood by the Prince. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z The chasuble upon which this orphrey is placed is made of a lovely brocaded silk decorated with falcons, peahens, and roses. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving There were a peacock and a peahen, a sty full of tiny, squeaking black piglets, hives of bees, all manner of pleasant country things. Mary Gray See how the dear girl's life is coming back moment by moment—just like a peahen in summer when the first rainy breezes come. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Poorer than the Yarrows, you understand? though but a little; in fact, there were not many steps farther down: peahens and cranberries were not for every day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 The other peahens came no nearer, but stood weeping silently. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z "I to my peacock, you to your peahen, with a Godspeed from each to other." A Christmas Garland The goose sits 30 days, swans 42, hens 21, ducks 30, peahens and turkeys 28, canaries 14, pigeons 14, parrots 40 days. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 The grass drops from the feeding doe; The peahen stops her dance; Pale, trembling leaves are falling slow, The tears of clinging plants. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works A haunch of venison, mince-meat, winter succotash, a roasted peahen,—and that is the top and crown of Nature's efforts in the way of fowls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 And at that all the other peahens lifted up their heads and wailed with her: but the Prince never turned, nor lifted a finger, nor uttered a sound. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z A dog's bark, a peahen's cry, above all a bird's song, is a great interruption to hypnotism—silent or by voices. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men Even in the street he is the peacock, coloured much more splendidly than the peahen. The New Jerusalem She followed attentive as a peahen, he spreading a gorgeous tail of accumulated information. Evelyn Innes The natives fatten those birds we have mentioned, as resembling peahens in colour, size, and taste. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera So at last only one peahen was left. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z The following morning we got a peahen at the same place. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China The doctors once prescribed peacock broth for pleurisy, peacocks' tongues for epilepsy, peacocks' fat for colic, peacocks' galls for weak eyes, peahens' eggs for gout. Adopting an Abandoned Farm The antelope was greatly moved at hearing of their comrade's fate, but dissuaded the peahen from her resolve to leave the island. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Men are vainer than women, just as peacocks are vainer than peahens; and Hereward was—alas for him!—a specially vain man. Hereward, the Last of the English He pushed open the door, and suddenly there was a sharp rustling of feathers, and nine white peahens rose up from the ground and flew out of the window into the garden. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z In a moment or two a peahen followed and also stretched out her neck—the two long necks pointing at the black flapping wing. The Open Air And his parents— The peahen died suddenly and mysteriously. Adopting an Abandoned Farm When the peahen saw what had betided the duck, she came down from the tree, saying, 'I see that misfortunes lie in wait for all. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III The duck had become a peahen—radiant, dazzling; she looked twice as beautiful and almost twice as large as before. Stories by English Authors: England Outside, the garden was gathering itself together in the dusk, and the peahens were stepping daintily about the lawns, picking here and there between the blades of grass. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z A second peacock and peahen approached, and the four great birds stretched out their necks towards the dying rook—a "crowner's quest" upon the unfortunate creature. The Open Air "What nonsense!" rejoined the Elf; "as if any lady could like to hear grandpapa maunder, and Mary scold and scream at the farm people, just like the old peahen." Magnum Bonum When the antelope heard the peahen's words, he exclaimed, 'May God make fair thy face!' and betook himself to the celebration of the praises of the Almighty, never after slackening therefrom. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III The antelope sorrowed with great sorrow, but dissuaded the peahen from her resolve to remove from the island. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 Just before it grew dark, the nine white peahens gathered together at the foot of a great elm, and lifting up their throats they wailed in chorus. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z The peahen alone of domesticated birds is rather more fertile, according to some accounts, when wild in its native Indian home, than in Europe when exposed to our much colder climate. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 This indeed is the case to a certain extent with some birds, as we have seen with the peahen, wild turkey, and certain kinds of grouse. The Descent of Man Thereupon the peahen came down to her and said, 'Welcome and fair welcome! The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III When the antelope heard the peahen's words he exclaimed, "Allah make fair thy face!" and betook himself to repeating the formula of praise, and ceased not there from a single hour. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 All the other peahens lifted their heads, and turned towards the one that had spoken, saying, "Yes, sister, we are awake." Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z NEWTON, A., absence of sexual distinctions in the Columbidae. -production of a "black-shouldered" peahen among the ordinary kind. -on hybrid ducks. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 We should remember the fact given on excellent authority in a former chapter, that several peahens, when debarred from an admired male, remained widows during a whole season rather than pair with another bird. The Descent of Man "Why go to the Kaid?" said the voice like a peahen. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable But when the peahen heard from the duck this story,—And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 The first peahen answered, "Do not fear that I shall fail!" Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z So the youngest peahen came down from the tree, and the Prince laid his heart bare for her beak; but the bird could not find the will to peck it out. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z But the Prince, seeing that she, too, was about to fail like the rest of them, turned and said, as if in his sleep, "Come, come, little peahen, and peck out my heart!" Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z The little white peahen crouched close down to the side of the dead Prince. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Eight white peahens went down to the gate: 'Wait!' they said, 'little sister, wait!' Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z For the poor peahen was shaken with weeping, and her tears fell down in loud drops upon the ground. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z At the first beat of it within her breast, the peahen became transformed as all her sisters had been, and her own human form came back to her. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z |
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