Sentences with phrase «like rhino»

Many species like rhino are practically extinct outside national parks.
It's just that it won't charge forward like a rhino — see the diesel engine inside the BMX X4 35d for further references on that — but rather do its best to take you wherever you please, hassle - free.
From throw pillows to fun lamps to adorable ceramic planters, like the rhino pictured below.
Our reviewers recommend making a purchase that lasts and gives you endless entertainment, like the RHINO ATV from TAO TAO.
One major controversy with ceratopsians (the family of Triceratops and Protoceratops) is whether they stood on straight legs like rhinos or crouched crook - legged like crocodiles.
The dino poo is from a dinosaur called Dinodontosaurus ~ a herbivore (plant eater) that lived about 240 million years ago which was somewhat like the rhinos of today.
The cast, ranging from Kiddy Kong to Tiny Kong, was to ride on animal steeds, emulating the three different styles of racing from Diddy Kong Racing: Enguarde - like swordfish for the water races, Rambi - like rhinos and Ellie for the land races, and Zingers for the air races.
Richard Bonham is the founder of the Maasailand Preservation Trust, an organization that patrols 1.5 million acres of land in southeast Kenya protecting wildlife like rhinos and elephants from poachers.

Not exact matches

So the art department and staff writers — who at most magazines are separated like lemurs and rhinos — end up mixing and lingering whenever they spot something of interest.»
This is what extinction looks like: The only rhino of his kind left on the planet gets 24/7 armed protection.
Like a «Jonah & the Whale» thing, only with rhino mucus.
I love the way that her hair is blowing forward like a stubborn little «rhino horn» of her own and the way that her left hand pushes back like a tail.
I thin what I have to offer does have some value, and can be rare like the black rhino.
But it's like throwing rice at a rhino.
I can't stop watching Gerardo Parra riding his teammate into battle like a war rhino.
injuries are exactly what happens when a workaholic defender tries to cover for himself and a rhino - like partner........
He said it looked like «rhino lining» for your nails.
Naturally to ask a man to be in a monogamist relationship is like to ask a rhino and a rabbit to eat one carrot each per day and claim you have been fair.
Lazio is a solid conservative as well with his anti gun and pro-abortion positions and his strong firm stance for RHINO consensus building philosphy...... a real nice guy no question... not a change agent... I guess NY is in such great shape we all don't mind sticking with status Cuomo candidates like Lazio....
Some governments are even experimenting with the controversial idea of allowing farmers to raise rhinos to harvest their horns (which can be painlessly trimmed and regrown like fingernails).
John Stewart said, «During the Ice Age just over 40 thousand years ago in the north of England Neanderthals were living in an environment which included extinct animals like woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave hyenas as well as the more familiar horses and reindeer.
Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.
They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.
Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.
«This aroused our curiosity to also check the woolly rhino, a species that, like the woolly mammoth lived during the late Pleistocene and similarly died out,» said Alexandra van der Geer, one of the authors of the study.
«Terrestrial animals like antelopes and gazelles, elephants and rhinos and giraffes — all these bones show very similar fracture and breakage patterns as Lucy,» adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of ASU, co-discoverer of Lucy.
Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.
I did not mention that the really scary, dangerous parts didn't make it onto film — like having a drugged lion walk up to me, having a rhino's horn miss me by 6 inches, or just being on the road at night with crazy South African drivers.
Yet the chance that such technologies will succeed in a species like the Sumatran rhino, whose basic biology is still poorly understood, seems remote.
«Frozen material could allow extinct animals like early mastodons and woolly rhinos to be sequenced»
A cute allover print of jungle pals like giraffes, elephants, and rhinos makes this Safari Sateen Fitted Crib Sheet from carter's a fun choice for your little adventurer.
Weekday mornings are tough for me — I sleep like a drugged rhino and barely make it out the door in time.
-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters
Also formidable is the cadre of women in T'Challa's court: the regal Angela Bassett as the royal matriarch; T'Challa's feisty baby sister (Letitia Wright), who concocts and programs Wakanda's high - tech, vibranium powered gadgets like his sleek panther outfit; the swooping aircraft; and rampaging Rhinos.
More fun designs included images of a vibranium mine (which kind of looked like a scene from Tron, set underground, and which may be the setting for one of Black Panther's fight scenes), as well as T'Challa riding a rhino, which is one of Wakanda's most precious animals.
That balance suited Redmayne's preparation style; Newt's on - screen rapport with each of his cherished fantastic beasts — from the honey badger — inspired Niffler to the plantlike Bowtruckle — was informed in part by an animal Redmayne met offscreen, like the aforementioned rhino and a ticklish anteater.
It's a cute idea, but it gets old real fast as the script constantly tries to mine laughs from the same few jokes and undermines emotional moments with stupid stuff like ostrich rodeos, bad child actors and rhinos having sex.
Martin McDonagh's fiercely written, stabbingly pleasurable tragicomedy stars a magnificent Frances McDormand; watching it is like having your funny bone struck repeatedly, expertly and very much too hard by a karate super-black-belt capable of bringing a rhino to its knees with a single punch behind the ear.
The suitcase does however contain: a nifler (a platypusial creature with a fondness for snatching shiny objects); an erumpent (rhino - like when it comes to size and temperament and, inconveniently, in heat); several occamy (winged serpents with an aptitude for size - shifting); a demiguise (simian, and blessed with powers of invisibility and precognition); a thunderbird (pretty much what is sounds like, only larger); and a variety of other, shall we say, fantastic beasts.
A car getting blown apart until Lupita Nyong» o is left holding a steering wheel like a silent movie clown; the armored rhinos and the armored rhino - riders; a final hero - villain duel where one Black Panther noble dons a silver necklace and the other rocks insidious gold.
Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year.
On a sadder note, the NFL declined to allow the use of any of their logos, resulting in the formation of the fictional AFFA, which includes teams like the Sharks, the Crusaders, the Knights, the Americans, the Rhinos, and other manly man names.
From the navigator's seat of the Riley, it feels like I'm lying flat on the pavement amidst a thundering pack of rabid mechanical rhinos.
This fantastical assemblage, like something from a Mad Max movie, would scoop up everything in its way: predators such as lions and cheetahs, lumbering endangered herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, herds of impala and wildebeest, family groups of warthogs and wild dogs.
Three of the Big 5 graced us with their presence over the course of the next 2 days — lion, elephant and rhino (Welgevonden boasts one of the largest rhino populations of any private game reserve in South Africa)-- but my favourite sightings are always of the «less in demand» inhabitants of the reserve — a herd of Waterbuck making a hasty retreat and thereby showing off their target - like markings on their rears, Warthog scrounging and digging for roots, Klipspringers hopping from rock to rock, being introduced to a huge scorpion.
And then there were the likes of Patrick, our diminutive and humorous Zulu guide in the Hluhluwe - Imfolozi game reserve, who pointed out to us the evidence of a very recent gory battle for supremacy between two mighty rhinos, the outcome of which had no doubt been witnessed by a flock of vultures circling nearby!
I'm not sure if it was the elephants wandering through the villas; the hippos munching all night in the back lagoon; the baboon party around my private plunge pool; the game drives that included watching lions mating and close - up views of leopards, rhinos, hyenas, zebras, giraffes and elephants; or the just - renovated villas that I liked best about this camp.
Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.
To see wild animals like hippos, elephants, lions, giraffes and rhinos (among other animals!)
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