Sentences with phrase «with beak»

Kind of like an angora rabbit, with a beak.

Henny was making cooing noises and nudging them with her beak.

He's cute and fluffy — an angora rabbit with a beak.

He added that birds can see a wider range of colors than humans can, and whatever is going on with the beak must be visible to other birds in a way that it isn't to people.

Yesterday it was the front bay window, which he hit at some velocity with his beak every 30 seconds or so, steadily, for 2 hours.

Painted in vast sections of creamy greens and flesh tones, this group of large - scale works depict the heads of birds, each with a beak and an eye of deep, visceral red.

The silhouette of a black bird with its beak open in, Raven (2009 - 10), dominates the height of the painting.

This untitled goose game appears to be built around two interactions: honking, and grasping things with your beak.

Instead, we could maybe pull off something with a beak.

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If they take it with their beak, gently pull it away and try again.

Rudy came to us with his beak almost entirely broken off.

These will act as «handles» for your bird to grasp with his beak while climbing up the cage sides instead of the cage bars.

Grasping: The only way a bird can carry something is with his beak.

Alright, the TL looks a little boring, but it's way better now than with the beak.

Even with the tweaks, the Acura stands out with its beak - like grille, wide cutouts in the front bumper housing, and sharply snubbed rear end.

«It is very striking that when we compare the size and shape of the Big Bird beaks with the beak morphologies of the other three species inhabiting Daphne Major, the Big Birds occupy their own niche in the beak morphology space,» said Sangeet Lamichhaney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the first author on the study.

In the finches, the gene displayed two distinct variants that matched up neatly with beak shape.

There were also strong similarities with genes identified with beak shape in Darwin's study of finches — one of the best - known examples of how physical traits have adapted to different environments in the wild.

When safekeeping tools while feeding on the low platform, they simply held the tool in one of their claws while picking up the food reward with their beak.

The octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, was filmed on top of a medusa jellyfish, devouring its innards with its beak, with the medusa's sticky tentacles still hanging out of its mouth.

The bird chewed off a 2 1/2 - inch splinter of wood from a beam in his aviary and used it to rake the nut toward him until he could grab the treat through the wire mesh with his beak.

The scientists used flat objects to ensure the birds would easily be able to remove the fake «eggs» if they wanted to (flat objects are easier to grasp with the beak than round ones).

To bend the wire, she sometimes stuck one end into a sticky piece of tape wrapped around the bottom of the tube well or held it in her feet, then pulled the tip with her beak.

Working backwards, Larson and his colleagues hypothesized that the last common ancestor of today's birds was a toothless seed eater with a beak.

To bend the wire, Betty anchored one end either in the sticky tape holding the experimental apparatus together or between her feet, and then manipulated the other end with her beak.

Just like when you're in a crowd in New York and everyone is exactly the same distance apart, that's the way seabird colonies are: Every bird is just far enough away from its neighbor that it can't reach it with its beak.

«He loved a good neck scratch and he'd pull at your finger with his beak if you stopped.»

Along the way, we meet creatures such as the Bornean bristlehead, a single - species family that inhabits the high canopy in deep rainforest; the helmet - billed vanga, with a beak that looks like it is made from blue plastic; and Odontopteryx, which, cruising Miocene seas on wings spanning up to 5 metres, was one of the largest flying birds ever.

The octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, was filmed swimming docked on top of a medusa jellyfish, with its beak devouring its innards, while the medusa's sticky tentacles were still hanging out of its mouth.

And if, however, the animal's hide is too tough to easily pierce with their beak, they don't hesitate to enter it using other routes, among them the back entrance — so to speak: via the anus.

Of course, I don't really attribute any independent life force to him — he is a fairly tatty stuffed toy with a beak made out of an old sweater.

However, it is bad form for a roller to «twizzle» by trying to touch its tail feathers with its beak.

Compared with these beaked and taloned graspers of the world, saints are herbivorous animals, tame and harmless barn - yard poultry.

In the early hours of the morning, they like to drum on the basement windows with their beaks.

They'd knock on the window with their beaks begging for food lol

To extract tasty insects from crevices, they craft a selection of hooks and long, barbed tapers called stepped - cut tools, made by intricately cutting a pandanus leaf with their beaks.

But in 1996, researchers reported that New Caledonian crows, named for their South Pacific island home, snip twigs with their beaks to make hooked tools (for more, see ScienceNOW, 9 March 2000).

Brainy New Caledonian crows have figured out how to carry objects too large to move with their beaks by using a stick

Sometimes, the birds would manipulate the toys with their beaks or feet — what scientists call object play.

When fishes developed jaws, cephalopods countered with beaks.

But when they see prey that's too deep to snatch with their beaks, they float over it and whirl away.

It may have been a matter of chance because most birds do just fine foraging with their beaks and feet without resorting to tool - making, McGowan said.

We need relatively calm seas (e.g, < 10 - 15 kt winds and < 3 - 4 ft seas) and if you check out the offshore actual weather and forecasts for the outer waters where we hope to work with beaked whales and other pelagic -LSB-...]

Marion Zoological Scenic Paradise Food Marion Zoological's Scenic Paradise Food is made up of round - shaped morsels with a light, crunchy texture for large and medium - sized parrots like African greys, macaws and cockatoos that prefer to pick up food with their beaks.

Kittens are not lizards covered with scales, nor are they birds with beaks and feathers.

In the Wind Waker, they look more human - like, with beaks replacing their noses.

The turkeys, forced to fend for themselves, were eaten by weasels and ultimately perished in the rain because «turkeys, at least young ones, are not smart enough to come in out of the rain, and will stand outside in a downpour, with beaks open and eyes skyward, until they drown.»

Not exact matches

It belongs to a group called the oviraptorosaurs — funny - looking feathered dinosaurs with sharp beaks which were ancestors of birds.

What does an exotic bird with a colorful beak sitting on a branch in the rain forest look like to you?