Milk
produced by elephant seals is remarkably high in milkfat compared to other mammals.
Not exact matches
The thought of fermenting coffee beans
by feeding them to small cat - like civits or large
elephants only to collect them again at the other end of the digestive process sounded unappetizing and cruel to Edgar Salgado — even if it
produces a less bitter...
By the time you eat breakfast, another
elephant has been slaughtered to
produce trinkets for the ivory market.»
Males of many animal species compete for mates, either
by producing showy ornaments to attract females, such as the plumes and bright colours of male Birds of Paradise, or, like stags and
elephant seals,
by fighting with other males for access to mates.
The ethereal glow
produced by animals deep in the ocean could be key for southern
elephant seals on the hunt
It's possible that when
elephants are not around, the trees may actually benefit from an invasion
by the bigheaded ant, because they wouldn't need to
produce nectar for native species and could use the energy to grow instead.
Research over the last decade, however, has revealed that low levels of carbon monoxide ward off internal injuries caused
by such stress, and the team argues that's why
elephant seals
produce large amounts of the gas.
Mantis shrimp also
produce low rumblings, similar to sounds uttered
by elephants.
Films which seemed to be impressed
by their high - profile literary and theatrical pedigrees were famously described
by Manny Farber as «white
elephant art», technically accomplished but fundamentally hollow spectacles, «films that do not actively use their visual register to
produce meaning» (18).
The feature film version of Just Mercy is being
produced by Gil Netter (Water for
Elephants, Life of Pi, The Blind Side, The Sea of Trees), to be directed
by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster) who is currently working on the script with Andrew Lanham.
Documentaries There are several docs that got a boost in Toronto: Amanda Knox; The Ivory Game about
elephant poaching; Before the Flood,
produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
I promised to
produce a Chinese translation of my recent post on an effort to protect the
elephants in and around Amboseli National Park in Kenya from the fresh wave of poaching driven
by relentless Asian demand for ivory.
My fellows here make reference to the «
elephant in the room» and to the fact that «the general public, who tends to get their news on this issue in tv sound bites, is confused
by the denial crowd who never seem to
produce substantiated, peer reviewed scientific evidence for their positions.»
Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared
by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to
produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]
Cities may come to realize they've got a lot of white
elephants dotting the skies because they made a terrible mistake
by allowing developers and builders to mass
produce the under 700sf condos which boomers, once they start to downsize en masse in a few years, will absolutely shun.