Sentences with phrase «as rhinoceroses»

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

I've got skin as thick as a rhinoceros.

An amazing megafaunal menagerie roamed the region: Giant armadillos resembling armor - plated autos; bears twice the size of grizzlies; the hoofed, herbivorous toxodon, big as a rhinoceros; and saber - toothed tigers.

The waters surrounding Anthony Island are home to a wide variety of sea birds, such as rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, and tufted and horned puffins, plus many more species are often seen.

The Annapurna Trek provides a true Nepalese trekking experience to the high mountains of the Himalayas, while the Chitwan portion brings you to the vastly - different jungle region of Nepal where you can experience such activities in Chitwan National Park as elephant riding, bathing elephants, jungle walk, canoeing, as well as have the opportunity to see such animals as rhinoceros, elephants, leopards, wild boar, crocodiles, and perhaps even a tiger, along with hundreds of exotic bird species.

The major exhibitions of the 1980s (Palazzo delle Esposizioni di San Marino, 1983 and Guggenheim in New York, 1989) were characterised by a pictorial practice that took on increasing significance, becoming «long and fast», a natural habitat for wild, «prehistoric» animals such as the rhinoceros, crocodile, tiger, bison, owl, all of which were also bearers of a clear primacy.

Not exact matches

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.

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 bicornrhinoceros is «Rhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornRhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornrhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornis.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pleistocene relics such as elephant, rhinoceros and hippopotamus are still thriving animals.

But the more recent geological history also included colossal animals such as the giant sloths, woolly rhinoceroses, and mammoths.

Despite that, the researchers say that there has been relatively little research done on giraffes in comparison to other large animals, such as elephants, rhinoceroses, gorillas, and lions.

These giant mammals included the woolly rhinoceros, mammoths, llamas, camels and giant ground sloths as well as ferocious predators such as the short - faced bear, and the scimitar and saber - toothed cats.

As a result, there has been an «escalating criminalization» in the trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, Ashe said.

Using tiny amounts of material the researchers recovered and analyzed fragments of mitochondrial DNA — genetic material from the mitochondria, the «energy factories» of the cell — and identified them as belonging to twelve different mammalian families that include extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear and the cave hyena.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

But some oviraptorosaurs weighed 3000 kilograms, as much as a modern rhinoceros.

This is Puntung, a Sumatran rhinoceros that is missing a foot as well as a working uterus.

In the process, we were able to determine that the extinct relatives of today's humans primarily fed on large herbivorous mammals such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses,» Prof. Bocherens said.

The dig — in Pod Hradem Cave in the central part of the Moravian Karst, in southern Moravia, near Brno — has unearthed over 20,000 bones of prehistoric animals (reindeer, aurochs, wild horses and woolly rhinoceros) as well as stone tools, weapons, charcoal, and an engraved bone rod that is the oldest of its kind in Central Europe.

Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceros, elephants, moose, and water buffalo.

At the end of a big rhinoceros battle, a male character submits to Gurira in the film's single most iconic shot, while an earlier scene in which she tosses aside a bad wig ranks as the most gay - friendly Marvel moment to date.

Being mistaken as part of «the staff» doesn't stop her from standing her ground against the ignorant, Trump-esque conservative, who is destroying the world one hunted rhinoceros at a time.

Rhinoceros Eyes is an embrace of dreaming as Chep (Pitt), cocooned in a decrepit moviehouse, sneaks away nightly to watch the same B - movie soaper, to return, popcorn in hand, the voyeur of the undressed windows along his path home.

It is telling, though, that as soon as such a future is thoughtfully hinted at, Paul Giamatti barges in wearing a mechanical rhinoceros costume.

Where Rhinoceros Eyes is about dreaming, The Dreamers is about waking up, and while the conversation about our multifoliate relationship to our art is endlessly fruitful, it's both dispiriting and hopeful that when one of film's brightest lights begins to dim, searching the streets for an angry fix as it were, others are hungry to howl in his place.

An early scene in Trophy unflinchingly follows of a group of South Africans as they take down a rhinoceros and use an electric saw to chop its horn off before setting it free.

He's Latino and a high school English teacher, a description and perspective that's perhaps as rare as the critically endangered northern rhinoceros, he says on his popular blog.

And in a marvelous juxtaposition of text and image, the woolly rhinoceros (coelodonta), described as shortsighted and dangerous, is shown tripping along, almost as though dancing, in a mini pop - up.

His most memorable trip was to South Africa, where he had the opportunity to work with exotic wildlife such as lions, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and antelopes.

Oddities like a giant golden dummy, a dancing shoe and a sparkling 10,000 piece crystal curtain by Swarovski acting as the back drop to a fossilised skeleton of a Siberian woolly rhinoceros are sure to raise a curious eyebrow.

Kruger National Park is home to the Big Five (elephant, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros, and lion) as well as other popular animals such as cheetah, giraffe, baboon, and many, many more.

[1] It is an important breeding site for northern elephant seals and the endangered Steller's sea lion, as well as several species of seabirds, including rhinoceros auklets, Brandt's cormorants and western gulls.

Black rhinoceros are the star attraction, but wildlife enthusiasts are spoilt too with gazelles, zebras and giraffes as well as lions and leopards.

Spanning 200 km from north to south and 50 km from east to west, Kruger is home to the Big Five (elephant, rhinoceros, leopard, lion, and buffalo) as well as a multitude of other animals...

In addition to playing a bit like Rambi the rhinoceros, the triceratops is a bit of an homage to Poochy as well (and why I placed Poochy on top of him), only fully controllable and far less annoying to play as (sorry, Poochy).

Rambi the rhinoceros has been replaced with Ellie the elephant, who's cute, but her ability to carry barrels and shoot water with her trunk is never used in a way to make her as fun as the destructive Rambi.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

As the middle class grows, which we all welcome and support, in many nations items like ivory or rhinoceros horn become symbols of wealth and social status.

Namibia's Etosha National Park, designated as a game reserve in 1907, is one of Africa's major wildlife sanctuaries.2 It centers around a huge, parched depression of silver - white minerals — the Great White Place or Place of Dry Water for which the park is named.3 This ancient, evaporated lake deposit of salt minerals fills with water only after heavy rains.4 The park harbors more than 100 types of mammals, including rare and endangered species such as the black rhinoceros, black - faced impala, tssesebe, and gemsbok.2 Etosha is also home to more than 300 species of birds and more than 100 species of reptiles.4

ungulate a hoofed typically herbivorous quadruped mammal (as a ruminant, swine, camel, hippopotamus, horse, tapir, rhinoceros, elephant, or hyrax)