Sentences with phrase «other preening»

But as the other preening penguin couples around them began to lay eggs and share in the duties of incubation, keepers say Inca and Rayas seemed a bit sullen and confused by their empty nest:

Not exact matches

Each parent would hop on and off the chick several times before the birds preened each other and one left to fish.

When one parent returns with a fish for the chick, the couple preen each other and switch roles.

But given that people, unlike rodents, don't preen each other, researchers assumed that we rarely come in close enough contact to perceive chemical cues in tears.

Of course, there were others shows going on too, notably Prabal Gurung, Lacoste, Jill Stuart, Mara Hoffman, and Herve Leger, all of which naturally brought out preening style - setters posing for street style photographers.

Women, on the other hand, like to primp and preen, with a majority (65 %) taking longer than 30 minutes.

Dated badly... It's difficult to pinpoint the film's raison d'être, other than to sate the ambitions of a bunch of preening stage - school prima donnas.

Though beautifully acted by Freeman, Kinnear and other veterans, the film has uneven work from newcomers such as Davalos, who defines her character with pretty - girl preening.

Anderson — who's become even more of an actors» director in his last few films than he was already — is at the peak of his powers here, ironically but appropriately directing «Vice» in such a way that phrases like «peak of his powers» (and other language connoting masculine swagger or preening mastery) seem contrary to the spirit of the thing.

Grooming Budgies are very clean animals and will preen themselves and each other (and maybe you too!)

This stability possibly stems from their breeding as a lap dog, a dog to be pampered, preened and adored, unlike other toy breeds that were bred to catch and kill other animals.

A few oil soaked dead sea birds were found, and others were observed preening excessively in the -LSB-...]

But preening victory can be short - lived: other players can knock the crown from their rival's head and wear it themselves.

The object of his eye was none other than Faye Dunaway, preening in a scene from an old movie about a shutterbug who sees murders through her viewfinder before they happen.

The gaggle of nude women in John Wilde's «The Wildehouse» (1952) inhabit a large country house; some prance and preen on the roof and porch while others pop in and out of bedroom and bay windows.

In this respect, as in so many others, it's like multilayer marketing: the ones at the top reap the reward — and then they preen, pleased with themselves for mastering the game.

The public might be more prepared to have «climate science» engaged at them if its leading practitioners demonstrated some qualities other than being arrogant, intolerant, preening and incompetent shysters.