Sentences with phrase «like elk antlers»

After Darwin proposed natural selection, he had a problem: There were all these things that were obviously not helpful to an individual's survival, like elk antlers and the peacock's tail.

Not exact matches

Through personal stories, historical narrative and detailed sketches, biologist Emlen charts the evolution of animal weapons so bizarre and gargantuan, it's amazing they even exist — like the towering antlers on an elk or the enormous claws on fiddler crabs.

«It had the body of a moose, a face like an elk and the males had an antler rack that's like neither.

At this point, Rich launches into describing a bunch of foods that you probably aren't too familiar with, like sprouted mung beans, elk antler velvet, green coffee beans, apricot seeds, natto, camu camu and more.

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I decorated it with a few random pieces that I had lying around, like this Crate & Barrel clock, a mirror that I got in the Philippines, and an elk antler.

Jyl saw that such an outburst was as close to a declaration of love for the animal as the old man would be capable of uttering, and the three of them looked down at the massive animal, whose body heat they could still feel radiating from it — the twin antlers larger than any swords of myth, and the elk's eyes closed, and still only what seemed like a little blood dribbling down the left shoulder, from the exit wound — the post-rut musk odor of the bull was intense — and all Jyl could say was «I'm sorry.»

Bruce fashioned a come - along around the base of the elk's antlers and hitched the other end to the iron pipe frame on the back of their truck — the frame constructed like a miniature corral, so that they could haul a cow or two to town in the back when they needed to without having to hook up the more cumbersome trailer — and carefully he began to ratchet the elk into a vertical position, an ascension.

He advises retailers to carry staples of the category, such as bully sticks, tendons, tracheas and jerky, and then flank them with newer and trending types of chews like naturally shed elk, deer and moose antlers.

Avoid things like deer and elk antler, animal bones, and hard plastic until your dog is older.

Dr. Cathy: Feed a great diet and use natural chews like elk or moose antlers.

We love finding natural dog products that support humane treatment of animals, like our Free Range Bully Sticks from free range cattle, or our elk antlers, which are naturally shed every year without harm to the elk.

In the painting by Barrie Cooke Megaceros Hibernicus, 1983, the elk emerges majestically from the gloomy bogland with its enormous antlers treated like massive antennae transmitting, as it were, a message from the past.