Sentences with phrase «sumatran rhinoceros»

Among the few shows that Mr. Guzmán has been able to view is a «nature program about a rhinoceros» that, they said, has been «replayed numerous times.»»

Interpol's research focused on the trade of rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers, as all international trade in those endangered species is prohibited.

This is a show, after all, that once painted God as a gap - toothed rhinoceros - monkey, portrays Satan as a simpering milquetoast and regularly features Jesus as a superhero - the kind who's not afraid to ignore the peaceful teachings of the Sermon on the Mount to smite his opponents.

They were a mythicisation of the rhinoceros.

Why would the translators change the word to wild ox if they knew the bible was probably talking about a rhinoceros?

Rhinoceros charged.

Depending upon the context of the passage however, the authors either use the word «rhinoceros» if the intent was to speak of two horns, or «unicornis» if the intent was to mean a singular horn.

It goes on to say under the entry for «rhinoceros» that: «a genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose.

Even today, the scientific name for the Asian one - horned rhinoceros is «Rhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornis.»

Last week, I read the following comment by N. T. Wright who says it much better than I: «Christians are neither chameleons, changing color to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

The high - stress lifestyle of a CIA operative requires you to have the heart of a warrior, the mind of a genius and the spine of a rhinoceros.

I didn't want anyone else smelling my sweat, or critiquing my form, or keeping me accountable, or seeing me jiggle, or hearing me breathe like an overheated rhinoceros.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

Here I stand before a rhinoceros, an immovable mass.

In Africa the natives take possession of a great anthill, destroy the ants, and clear out the inside, leaving only the clay walls standing, which they make red hot with a fire, so as to bake joints of rhinoceros within.

What a wonderful thing it is, though; like a sarcastic rhinoceros, except this thing's walking at about 6» 7 at the shoulders.

«Unfortunately they did not do that and gave him zero support, and in that situation Mertesacker showed the agility of a rhinoceros.»

He is not being wise by speaking like that, although I can't really disagree with most of what he says, especially the rhinoceros part.that is spot on

Rhinosacker will continue to Rhinoceros at the heart of the Gunners center backs as both Chambers & De Abreu continue to be the understudies to Rhino» & Koscielny.

Laudrup's record is promising, if a trifle patchy, but there's nothing to suggest that his Swansea team are about to batter through the Premier League like a rhinoceros late for a really important train.

The rebellion, whose numbers are fewer than the remaining Javan Rhinoceroses, will need to round up some troops in the far reaches of the outer rim and whatnot if they want to have a chance at taking down the First Order.

And also plastic chips, dangling soft monkey and rhinoceros, a lion chews toy, a plastic giraffe, a ball spinner and a drum spinner, and large buttons to activate the lights and animal noises.

Did you ever read Ionesco's Rhinoceros?

Surf Scoters, Red - throated and Pacific loons, and Whimbrels were headed for Alaska or interior Canada, while Black Oystercatchers, Glaucous - winged Gulls, and Rhinoceros Auklets were already in the throes of nesting on the Washington coast.

Instead Paladino offered his harsh assessment of the elected leaders under a photo of a rhinoceros, suggesting the GOP members are RINO's, or Republicans In Name Only.

I got skin as thick as a rhinoceros so I'm ready for anything.»

Outgoing Assemblyman Bob Sweeney said a three - way deal has been reached on to inhibit the trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns in New York — a main goal of his.

I've got skin as thick as a rhinoceros.

When Eric Pickles was described by an opponent as possessing the «charm of a charging rhinoceros», it was meant to be an insult.

Whenever he finds himself on the wrong end of a dispute, Pickles boasts that his «rhinoceros - like» hide will see him through, while jibes about his weight also failed to hurt: «I'm rhinoceros - like: I could not care less about the comments.»

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

With the big five of a safari tour taking in lion, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo, getting into the big beast bracket is somewhere any politician would want to be.

The Tory Right, it is said, equals the rhinoceros - ready to charge through the landscape busting open old ways and practices.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

Although rhinoceroses are endangered, legalizing the trade in rhino horns may be the best way to protect them from poachers.

They threw those spears at bison and woolly rhinoceros, resulting in hunting injuries that would end the career of a linebacker.

Savannahs are home not only to unique wildlife, including the «Big Five» — the African elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion — but also to thousands of endemic plant species such as the baobab, or monkey bread tree.

This is a reconstruction of a Last Interglacial temperate landscape (Germany) with typical Late Pleistocene European large herbivores such as the now extinct straight - tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus), an extinct rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), as well as the still common roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

Analysis suggests it was probably fashioned from the bladder of some large animal, perhaps a woolly rhinoceros, and was at one time attached to some long, thin bones found arrayed around the impression.

There were also fairly large losses in Europe and Asia, including a number of elephants, rhinoceroses and giant deer.

It is perhaps no accident that the timing of this occupation coincides with a major extinction of larger ice age mammals such as the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

For instance, the last birth of an endangered northern white rhinoceros was in 2000.

But the approach isn't just useful for human DNA — scientists are now using it to catch rhinoceros poachers in Africa, The New York Times reports.

Purported to treat a variety of ailments, from fevers to measles to epilepsy, rhinoceros horns have been prized ingredients in Chinese medicines for thousands of years.

For instance, the orphaned male elephants at Pilanesberg and another reserve made headlines for attacking and killing 107 rhinoceroses over a 10 - year period, something that elephants had never been reported to do.

Unfortunately, that may be the future of the island unless scientists find some way to stop the destructive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle which feeds on the coconut palms, stripping them of their leaves and decimating the vegetation.

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Although Asian one - horned rhinoceroses, tigers, and other endangered mammals managed to survive 15 years of a rebel occupation in this World Heritage Site in India, they still face the threat of logging and poaching due to the shortage of park police.

There are elephants and buffalo by the thousands in the valley, zebra, eland, kudu, puku, roan, impala, waterbuck, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and many other species.

Researchers working in northern Siberia have been striving to restore the grassland ecosystem that supported mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and other giants during the Pleistocene epoch, between 1.8 million and 10,000 years ago.