Sentences with phrase «wild ass»

So, for example, Beja herders in Northeastern Africa intentionally bred their donkeys with African wild asses in order to produce stronger transport animals.»

For example, which is more important: a nature reserve to protect wild asses in Somalia, or one to protect lemurs in Madagascar?

His menagerie included a flock of flightless kiwis from New Zealand (which accompanied him to Cambridge when he arrived as a university student in 1887), 144 giant tortoises imported from the Galápagos Islands, a sheep - size South American rodent called a capybara, as well as wild asses, spiny and scaly anteaters, emus, and kangaroos.

Based on observations of a group of three young female Somali wild asses at the Saint Louis Zoo, the study provides new insight into the species» social behavior in a captive setting — a relatively good proxy environment for the early phases of wild animal domestication.

Mann's flawed, homemade code and the use of upside down data; Rahmstorf's silly use of made up data from the future, Monnet's bizarre flight of imagination in polar bear land, Jones» Chinese fraud and refusal to share data, Harry Read Me, Briffa's magic tree, Steig's Antarctic smear, the SST wild ass guess, the list just goes on and on and on...

Prior to this study, these thin - limbed, lightly built horses were thought to be related to the Asiatic wild ass or onager, or simply a separate species within the genus Equus, which includes living horses, asses, and zebras.

I start my top ten with this raucous and wild ass trip of a film.

The varied wildlife includes the strangely beautiful wild asses and blackbucks.

I, on the other hand round everything up to my best WAG (Wild Ass Guess).

The recent birth of a female Grevy's zebra foal at the Saint Louis Zoo marks another milestone in a long - running Washington University in St. Louis research partnership that is making significant contributions to the preservation of Grevy's zebra and the equally endangered African wild ass.

A recently discovered anaerobic fungus that is apparently specific to the hindgut of the critically endangered Somali wild ass, for example, is at risk of extinction through habitat loss before it is even formally described.

Who has provided food for the wild ass and the wild ox that can't be domesticated or put to work?

Someone posted a lineup with BJG / Moreno at FBs, and Ings in for Firmino, but it was unclear if that was based on anything or just a wild ass guess.

At one time, 11 teams of 44 onagers — a subspecies of the wild ass now found mainly in the north of Iran — had to be taken care of for four days, costing the city a considerable amount of grain.

They have got gazelles and wild asses and wild yaks, in the steep parts you've got ibex and snow leopards.

With water levels rising, thickets of reeds have cropped up along the banks of the Syr Darya, providing harbor and food for waterfowl, which in turn has led to more Asiatic foxes, wolves, and wild asses, or kulans, and boars.

While almost all large domesticated mammals have wild ancestors who lived in herds with highly social behaviors and well - defined hierarchical relationships, neither wild asses nor Grevy's is reported to be social in the wild.

Since ancient populations of African wild ass were ancestors of donkeys, she wanted to learn more about the behavior of African wild asses to inform her work on domestication.

I'm looking for a good guy who is as crazy as I am, willing to keep up, and someone who can handle my wild ass.

Overall Matthew Vaughn had taken his wild ass British ways to the main stream world.

* — I've already seen this wild ass creation from Leigh Whannell (co-creator of Saw and Insidious) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of Glee).

Krasinski's all - American son is weirdly paired with the wild ass Sharlto Copley.

I saw a gritty gangster film about a wild ass drug dealer at the Rollins Theater in Austin at AFF 2016.

Mark Wahlberg and his real - life entourage are the starting point of this wild ass show created by Doug Ellin and showcased on HBO from...

To be followed by tomorrows WAGNER (wild assed guess, no explanation required).

WAGNER (wild assed guess no explanation required) you could manipulate the absorption of the skin layer by tossing a small amount of different oils onto the surface.

To make a long story short, and this is really a WAGNER (wild assed guess, no explanation required) what if the large amounts of SO2 injected into the northern hemisphere atmosphere by WWII and the unrestrained coal burning (see London, smog) produced huge amounts of sulfate aerosol which shadowed and cooled downwind rural measurement sites.

Explain why your last fifteen years of prediction have been completely wrong, and if you have a wild ass explanation of something you didn't factor in, give us a reason to believe that you didn't forget something else.»

He was like, «Into the Wild my ass.»

Many of us still operate on hunches, wild ass guesses and assumptions instead of the data that's available.