Sentences with phrase «by the elephants at»

Guinea fowl and doves come in flocks at first light to the funnellike holes made by the elephants at night in dry sand rivers.

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19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Think about it, you can not prove with absolute certainty that there isn't a 50,000 lb, two foot tall, purple elephant with three inch wings that flies around at half the speed of light at the other end of the universe, but that lack of absolute knowledge by no means obligates you to consider it as a serious possibility.

The thought of fermenting coffee beans by feeding them to small cat - like civits or large elephants only to collect them again at the other end of the digestive process sounded unappetizing and cruel to Edgar Salgado — even if it produces a less bitter...

Whatever the encouraging indicators provided by medical research, those signs of progress are of minor import compared with the elephant in racing's living room, around which most everyone steps gingerly in various states of denial: drugs at the track.

«I am remembering that if I shoot this elephant with this cartridge, using a 300 - grain bullet at 3,000 feet per second, that it will be the first elephant ever shot by a bullet traveling at that speed, for no other elephant rifle in the world nearly approaches this speed.»

It is the elephant in the rom at the moment, and yesterday Arsene Wenger tried to justify it by blaming «other factors» for the defeats.

But then elephants are being shot at by Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who is in turn hit with liquid rainbows.

Mr. Bagbin who was speaking in Tamale at the campaign launch of the Tamale South Constituency played up the infrastructure built by the NDC government and appealed to the electorate to reject the elephant party because it symbolizes destruction.

A first - of - its - kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the local extinction of a dominant tree species, with likely cascading effects for other forest life.

Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington and his colleagues started by collecting DNA from nearly 400 elephants at 28 reference sites across Africa.

By the time you get to 1883, you're at page 149 — and you're still only in February, with six months and a charming but overdramatized story about a circus elephant to go before the action starts.

The largest rodent ever to have lived may have used its front teeth just like an elephant uses its tusks, a new study led by scientists at the University of York and The Hull York Medical School (HYMS) has found.

Run by Kanok Pavasuthipaisit at Mahidol University, the lab has fertilized Asian elephant eggs in vitro.

1976: Soft Gripper Designed by Shigeo Hirose at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Soft Gripper emerged from studies of elephant trunks and snakes.

Now, in a study published in Scientific Reports, a research team led by Lounès Chikhi from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal) and CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier (France), and Benoit Goossens, from Cardiff University (Wales), and Sabah Wildlife Department (Malaysia), found that elephants might have arrived on Borneo at a time of the last land bridge between the Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia.

Although a few tourists and locals had reported seeing her before, the first confirmed sighting was by H. K. Janaka, a field researcher at Sri Lanka's Centre for Conservation and Research, which has been studying the country's roughly 4,000 elephants for 12 years.

By shifting the joint farther up the trunk, the elephant made the lower trunk lighter — and gentler — the team reports today at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Caitlin O'Connell - Rodwell, who studies elephants at Etosha National Park in Namibia, sees evidence that elephants can sense the approach of major storms, but she is not convinced by the tsunami story.

The study «is the first to investigate responses to distress by Asian elephants,» which «is inherently difficult to assess because one has to wait for opportunities to arise spontaneously,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist at the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka.

• African Elephants Aren't All Alike A landmark study of the DNA of African elephants by Alfred Roca and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute last year confirmed that there are more than two species — Asian and African — of paElephants Aren't All Alike A landmark study of the DNA of African elephants by Alfred Roca and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute last year confirmed that there are more than two species — Asian and African — of paelephants by Alfred Roca and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute last year confirmed that there are more than two species — Asian and African — of pachyderms.

Eventually, by drawing on Georgiadis's tissue collection, Lori Eggert's West African samples, and the gleanings of other on - site collectors, Wasser's team at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington assembled a bank of 354 tissue samples and 491 fecal samples, collected from 45 locations in 23 countries, that together account for over 85 percent of Africa's surviving elephants.

Searching by author and topic today, I can not find any scientific research by Church mentioning mammoths or elephants at all.

There is an incredibly powerful new tool for genome editing called CRISPR Cas 9 that can indeed swap synthetic mammoth genes into an elephant genome, and this has been done by George Church and his team at Harvard.

At present, it is unclear to what extent formant - shifting in elephant alarm calls is the result of voluntary vocal tract manipulations, the simple by - product of affective states, or some other mechanism (see [61]-RRB-.

And so we started digging in a little bit better and found out that she had this huge ordeal with her brother during the holiday season and that had sort of left her in almost like a post-traumatic hypersensitive adrenal burnout state and once we got to work through some of that emotional trauma, she felt immediately better by the end of the call, and then we realized — okay, we're still going to tweak the supplements a little bit but here's an emotional thing that was the white elephant in the room and when you look at the symptoms and you look at the protocol, something didn't add up and then we kinda dug deeper.

We shot the classic look at the Perth Zoo - right by the elephants and being a week day we were able to speak to the keeper who told us a bit about Trish, the older elephant.

Inspired by the recent elephant straw flags I made for my Etsy shop, I designed these cute mini party flags you could use to dress up straws and / or cupcakes at any Valentine's occasion.

At its core, the story is about recognizing the value of a person, despite their size, as Horton, an enormous elephant, becomes aware of a voice coming from a small speck of matter, and comes to learn there's an entire city of Whos on that speck, led by the Mayor, who's never had much to do, as nothing bad has ever happened.

A man rides through an opposing army slashing as he goes, rears his horse, and throws a knife at a man on a rearing elephant, who throws a spear that hits the horse and the man is shot with an arrow; the man falls to the ground, the horse is attacked repeatedly by men with swords and spears (we hear the horse shrieking, see blood gush from its wounds and then see it fall to the ground, although it does not die).

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

This movie takes a look at the life and work of social scientist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), who, at one point, can be seen walking down a hallway trailed by an elephant.

At the premiere red carpet in Berlin, actor Robert Pattinson talks about his role in the upcoming film «Bel Ami» by directors Declan Donnellan (The Big Fish) and Nick Ormerod and starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Water for Elephants, Twilight), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol.

Images of a stage production of «Uncle Tom's Cabin» ending in an actor playing Lincoln being pelted by vegetables hint at the sort of picture this should have been; images of an elephant rampaging through the Draft Riot streets suggest that bread and circus dispenser P.T. Barnum's dictum was mostly correct.

Good, then, that the reins have passed from «Hunger Games» helmer Gary Ross to Francis Lawrence — a director with a firm grasp of large - canvas filmmaking, equally skilled at tense, white - knuckle sci - fi («I Am Legend») and bald, unapologetic romance (as evidenced by his excellent yet underseen circus swooner, «Water for Elephants»).

If that central issue of the picture lies fallow until an ill - fated recital (set up by ill - used, slapstick laughing - stock Christian cellist Graham Claydon (Tom Hollander)-RRB- ends with a few wild swings of a nail - studded bat, at least it's introduced as an elephant in a room full of people in that darkened theatre clucking at how adorable and somehow inspirational it is that a hobo is a world - class cellist.

Proud Proboscis — Ronald «Steady» Barker pays tribute to one of motoring's most magnificent white elephants the 50cv Renault and its successor the 40cv / The Healey Heritage — Malcolm Green traces the development of the big Austin - Healeys from Donald Healey's Riley - powered cars from Warwick to the Mark III 3000 that was built at Abingdon / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on some recent restorations by readers of The Automobile / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Batteries — Workshop / Enfield Underslung — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the Adamson cyclecar / Swooping Kestrel — Brian Heath experiences the pleasure of preselector gear changing at the wheel of a 1937 Riley 12/14 Kestrel / Butler's Babies — The American Austin was one of the first attempts to popularise the European small car in the USA Kit Foster tells its story / Commercially Speaking — Panels & Parts

Their elephant herd, rescued by Lawrence, shared Françoise's grief at his passing but over time forged a new relationship with her.

Patty Jansen presents Before you even start self - publishing posted at Must Use Bigger Elephants, saying, «I recently attended an event for extreme newbies in self - publishing, and came away with a couple of thoughts that are fundamental to anyone considering self - publishing, but don't seem to be understood by some people who are just dipping their toes in.»

No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is an excellent novel that chronicles the life of Jacob Jankowski and his experiences in the Benzini Circus, one that is second rate at best compared to the Ringling Bros..

But the difficulties alleged by the rating agencies failed to appear, unless they were somehow sloshed into the hurricane disasters of 2004 - 5, or like eating an elephant — one bite at a time.

Dr. Laura Richman, one of many elephant researchers funded by Morris Animal Foundation, was a pathology resident at the National Zoo under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Montali at the time, and became part of the investigative team trying to identify the mystery illness that took Kumari's life.

Bali Bliss Tours has offer the best combination Bali Tour to see the Exotic of Bali, take a ride on the elephant and see the humorous elephant attraction, join our professional for superb white water rafting adventures on Ayung River, after enjoy buffet lunch, and then last thing that you do is you can treat your self by doing Spa treatment at Bali Nature Adventure.

As we sat back and watched the interactions in awe and amusement, several elephants wandered into the scene, with one of the larger, feisty baboons at one point standing up on his hinds legs and directly facing off with an elephant — until the elephant made it clear who would prevail by grunting and aggressively moving his front legs.

Stay at a remote bush camp in the Okavango Delta, and seek out elephants, lions, zebras, and much more while exploring by dugout canoe.

According to a commemorative book by the Airports of Thailand, the Don Mueang area at the turn of the 20th century was surrounded by ricefields, isolated farms and wetlands where wild elephants roam.

Oscar DiCaprio, a male elephant seal pup named after the famous actor and environmentalist, was rescued last April at Oceano Dunes State Park in San Luis Obispo County, CA, by volunteers at the Marine Mammal Center.

During the 1800s and early 1900s, elephant seals were killed by sealers at most places where they breed.

The northern and southern elephant seal can be distinguished by looking at various external features.