Sentences with phrase «as flightless»

See the biggest marine iguanas mingling with sally - lightfoot crabs, as well as flightless cormorants nesting sites, Galapagos penguins and the «King» of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk.

Not exact matches

It is a land of odd creatures: giant anteaters, tapirs, maned wolves, the llama - like guanaco, flightless rheas as tall as I am, and as many as 10 species of armadillo.

This firm placement of Gastornis as an herbivore suggests that the community structure of Paleocene Europe was different from that found in North America at the time, and may in fact have been quite similar to the later systems seen on islands, such as Madagascar, where large flightless birds filled many different niches.

In doing so, he found that the creature's traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands.

EARLY BIRD The flightless dinosaur - like bird Archaeopteryx could glide, as seen in this artist's illustration.

OUCH Dasymutilla occidentalis, commonly known as the cow killer ant based on its painful sting, is actually a flightless wasp.

With few trees to obstruct views, it is one of the best places in the country to watch tapir (Tapirus terrestris), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), and, of course, the greater rhea (Rhea americana), the large flightless bird related to the ostrich which is locally known as «ema» in Portuguese.

His menagerie included a flock of flightless kiwis from New Zealand (which accompanied him to Cambridge when he arrived as a university student in 1887), 144 giant tortoises imported from the Galápagos Islands, a sheep - size South American rodent called a capybara, as well as wild asses, spiny and scaly anteaters, emus, and kangaroos.

Others, such as the marsupial mammals and giant flightless birds, were uniquely Australian.

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

As the name suggests, this oil is extracted from the back fat of the Australian Emu bird (Dromaius novaehallandiae), a flightless bird native to Australia (similar to the ostrich).

In any case, the film, directed with bounce and snap by Mark Waters, stands as a comeback of sorts for Jim Carrey, who mugs and prances and does funny voices and manages not to be upstaged by a half - dozen flightless birds.

Mr. Popper's Penguins probably has the same effect on anyone who might harbor a fantasy of having a waddling, flightless bird as a pet.

Kinda feels like «The Lion King» but with much added lunacy and those cool penguins, the film wouldn't be half as good without those flightless little birds.

The web - footed, flightless little birds almost destroy his pristine Park Avenue apartment (he has to keep paying the doorman off and lying to his neighbors, as well as fight off an evil zoo keeper, Clark Gregg, «Thor «-RRB-, but he keeps them around because they're a tool to get his family back.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Flightless birds as spies?

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

We motor to the rocky islets known as «Las Marielas», where a colony of nesting Penguins, Flightless Cormorants and giant Marine Iguanas are found.

Admire a variety of seabirds, such as blue - footed booby, brown noddy, terns, flightless cormorant and depending on the season, a large number of Galapagos penguins.

Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

Of course, he has some great company: Peck, as loyal as he is flightless, and Laura, a rebel who certainly does fly, but only off the handle and who is Robert's love with a capital L, by the way.

Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: 3DS After Pit's reveal as a playable character in «Super Smash Bros Brawl» in E3 2008's trailer, fans have speculated that Nintendo would announce a game featuring the usually - flightless angel.

As part of the presentation, Square Enix finally let us see the game's versions of Chocobos, Final Fantasy's flightless avian mounts.

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

Try flight of the penguins: As if our flightless - fowl friends haven't had enough to deal with of late, the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula during the past few decades is also forcing penguin populations to migrate south.

«As a popular, yet flightless bird, we penguins are used to disappointment.

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.