Sentences with phrase «like arboreal»
Hundreds of acres of once - vibrant, postcard - perfect groves that have prospered for centuries are now cemeteries where twisted, dead tree trunks protrude like arboreal zombies from fertile soil in which grass and flowers easily grow.
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Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.
Now Selam is further illuminating whether A. afarensis spent all its time on the ground or, like an ape, still lived a partially arboreal life, as Wong describes, starting on page 78.
ramidus teeth is similar to that of the predominantly arboreal, small, baboon - like Pliopapio and the woodland browser Tragelaphus, indicating little dietary intake of grass or grass - eating animals.
afarensis had forelimbs that were ape - like, including long, curved fingers used to forage daily in the arboreal canopy, and that its immediate ancestors must have knuckle - walked.
Like the more familiar camera traps at ground level, arboreal camera traps may become an important tool for recording hitherto hidden behaviors.
But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have more than we realized: These arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.
The arboreal metaphor is overworked as the tree's roots choke off the rural home's water supply, but the story has a winning, fable - like directness.
In places the emerald leaves of the arboreal canopy block out all but a thin latticework of sky, making it seem dark even on the sunniest of summer days and adding to the tunnel - like feeling of the confusing rabbit warren of roads.
In a parallel to Shannon's encounter with the angelically blossoming tree, Darwin, exploring a Brazilian rainforest, has his own arboreal revelation: «Bristles of orchid leaves on every black branch / like green flames over Bibles.
Wohlleben makes an affable forest companion — a tree whisperer who interprets arboreal behavior for the likes of me.
North American birds did not evolve with a small somewhat arboreal predator like cats.
Margays are small tropical cats, marked like an Ocelot, and are totally arboreal (Tree Dwellers).
Like monkeys, snakes, squirrels, and other arboreal residents, cats take the occasional tumble from a limb.
Like most geckoes, they are largely insectivores, but they also respond well to soft, sweet fruits, as befits their arboreal lifestyle.
Most of the area is covered by herbaceous, shrub like and arboreal plants.
And let's not forget her first solo show Between the Trees, with its innovative slide - like illustrations of arboreal matter.
Like the local birds that flit in between and build their nests amongst these silent arboreal giants, the Birdhut has been built using materials scavenged from the site itself.
Reducing our gasoline consumption sounds like the best thing we can do to protect the Arboreal Forests of the northcountry.