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the worst wound was on his haunch, which exhibited a sickening yawning gash, more than twelve inches long, almost laying bare the very bone. I was very cool and steady, ... Before we had proceeded a hundred yards from the carcase, upwards of sixty vultures, whom the lioness had often fed, were feasting on her remains.
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Merganettini, torrent ducks (small, long stiff tail); ... Aegypiinae (Old World vultures, palm-nut vulture = vulturine sea eagle, lammergeier), large, heavy bodied, many scavenge on ungulates, adults usually with bare heads, often with neck ruff, superciliary plate absent. ... African and Asian finfoot chick is downy,
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Plumage black and white, face bare. 1 species, ... Tadorninae shelducks and allies, including tribes Merganettini torrent ducks Merganetta (small, ... Mating behavior and social organization are variable, monogamous in malleefowl where male guards a mound, and in many Megapodius where male guards a female and remains in a pair;
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This night-cold cuts to the bone unless one is provided with the simple necessary wraps, ..... We reached a bare grass-opening. A single thorn-tree stood in its centre, ...... The two smaller East-African Vultures are clearly Neo- phrons; ... A bold camp- scavenger, swooping down and carrying off scraps of meat (or ...
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London: EDWARD ARNOLD 1908 [A// Rights Resei-ved\ c ' r" o PREFACE Should the title of this work convey no significance, the fact wonlcl show that there yet remains " Something new from Africa." That Arabic term "Safari" has no precise equivalent in our British tongue, yet is in daily ... STRAY NOTES ON EAST-AFRICAN GAME .
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and to express admiration of his eminent scientific attainments, nowhere more strongly evidenced than by the striking hypothesis respecting the physical conformation of the African continent, promulgated in his Presidential Address to the Royal Geographic Society in 1852, and verified three years afterward by the Author...
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and finding that their present position was bare, they walked majestically along the top of the bank to a spot a few hundred yards lower, where the bank was well wooded. Here they seemed half inclined to await my attack; ... Suddenly I observed a number of vultures seated on the plain about a quarter of a mile ahead of us,
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Large lappet-faced and white-headed vultures have deep, broad backs adapted for tearing skin and other tough parts. They can rip open the dead animal making the viscera more accessible to white-backed and Ruppells griffon vulture which have long, bare necks and can reach deep inside the body.
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The Queen of the Andes Puya raimondii has been reassessed and remains in the Endangered category. Found in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, it only produces seeds once in 80 years before dying. ... Their return route to European breeding grounds in spring also crossed the heart of the African continent, but involved a...
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... affordable affront afloat afraid afresh Africa African African-American after .... barbecue barbed wire barbell barber barbiturate bar code bare bare-bones ...... scathing scatter scatterbrained scattered scavenge scavenger scavenger ..... voyeur voyeurism vs. vulgar vulgarity vulnerability vulnerable vulture W ...
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