Sentences with phrase «long as elephants»

Aren't you thankful we don't carry our babies as long as elephants?!

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There was green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born The loveliest of all was the unicorn

You'll see green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born You're never gonna see no unicorns

So many smaller difficulties & I suspect several long term problems that have crippled & twisted us into our current deformity would be healed, if a few leaders used their platforms to address the elephant in the sanctuary, as it were.

The glowing potential has long been overshadowed by the presence of players such as Sebastien Squillaci, Marouane Chamakh and Andre Santos, who all help to make up the worryingly large number of Elephants in The Gunners» dressing room.

The governor's office says entertainment elephants live half as long as wild elephants due to abusive treatments.

According to the researchers» notion, the «fast twitch» muscle fibers in immense creatures such as elephants and whales run out of cellular fuel long before they can reach max speed based on the overall number of such fibers.

Researchers have long explored this idea by observing animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants, but biologist Natalia Borrego of South Africa's University of KwaZulu - Natal focuses on big cats.

It was a violent climax to a long - simmering conflict, which saw farmers regularly lose harvests as protected elephants raided their crops.

Planetary cues, such as magnetic inclination and moon phase, guide northern elephant seals and other large vertebrates over long distances and across time.

«As petroleum came to the relief of the whale,» the pamphlet stated, so «has celluloid given the elephant, the tortoise, and the coral insect a respite in their native haunts; and it will no longer be necessary to ransack the earth in pursuit of substances which are constantly growing scarcer.»

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

Scientists have long debated the distinctions among African elephants, which were divided into as many as 18 types in colonial times, says conservation geneticist Lori Eggert of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..

And as long as there is a form of legal ivory trade, conservationists fear the illegal elephant ivory trade will continue.

But crocodiles aren't the only animals with exposed teeth — elephants, for instance, have exposed teeth as well, and many extinct saber - toothed predators had very long canines that were also exposed when their mouths were closed.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

The elephants» calls would be deafening — around 110 decibels, as loud as a rock concert — but we can not hear a note because the waves are so lengthy, as long as 225 feet.

«That showed how they helped and why they lived so long after menopause, but it didn't explain why they stop reproducing,» he says, noting that in other species, such as elephants, older females also share wisdom and knowledge with their daughters, but continue to have calves.

«We found that elephants would wait at their rope end as long as 45 seconds — they understood that pulling without the partner wouldn't earn any reward,» Plotnik said.

As The Big Roundtable gets off the ground Shapiro and his «readers» will be looking for long - form nonfiction, which is something bigger than a breadbasket and smaller than an elephant.

We rarely see elephant seals on our trips as they spend the majority of their time beneath the surface, diving to depths of over 5,000 ft for as long as 2 hrs.

Christian Wolters, deputy general manager of Intrepid Travel, told The Dodo that the decision has had enthusiastic support and as a result, «2,500 people per year no longer participate in elephant rides.»

If you want an explanation as to why using elephant dung has historical context surrounding it and is not just a way to piss off Rudy Giuliani, you can read last year's long profile of Ofili in The New Yorker.

When, in Panchatantra, a nude bather poses happily in a stream alongside a long - tusked elephant, the image reads as tender, idyllic, and completely plausible.

In June, Adonna Khare's massive 40 - foot - long pencil drawing, Elephants (2012) was installed as part of Animal Meets Human.

The paintings represent a new phase of Ban's imagery in which significant stylistic and conceptual changes begin to take place: the elephant is more abstracted, and other common motifs, such as underpants, are no longer obviously part of her major thematic concerns.

Save the Elephants has long used Google Earth as part of their tools in tracking and managing elephant herds, so when they wanted a way to bring more awareness to Samburu and the work being done there, Google stepped in and offered their Street View trekker technology to document the reserve.

The designation protects some of the last expanses of closed forest in the Indo - Pacific region and is one of the most important ecosystems, including wetlands, for the long - term conservation of large mammals such as tigers, clouded leopards, and Asian elephants.

Many Sri Lankans have long regarded elephants as dangerous pests that ruin their crops via trampling them, and kill them to protect their livelihood as some Americans kill wolves to protect livestock.

The Empire State has long taken action to protect other threatened and endangered species such as tigers and elephants, now we're taking action to protect sharks and help end the cruelty of shark finning worldwide.»

That does no harm — at all events it is the human condition from which we will not escape — so long as we do not delude ourselves into thinking that we have finally seen our elephant whole.