How To Use Raptorial In A Sentence
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Compared to most raptorial birds, saw-whet owls are a very small-bodied species with high mass-specific metabolic costs.
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In addition, they have potent raptorial appendages, with which they produce extremely fast and powerful strikes.
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The raptorial legs are overly developed, as are the grasping hooks and leg musculature.
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He further suggested that falcons ‘probably represent a raptorial branch of this radiation’ (p. 144), a suggestion presumably based on the anatomy of caracaras.
Giant hoatzins of doom
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Carapace width does not vary within a molt and is proportional to the length of the males' raptorial forelimbs, which they use in attacking other males.
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Klinsmann needs US Soccer to pursue an agenda that develops raptorial talent in the school of young players coming through.
Alan Black: The Shark: Jürgen Klinsmann, New Team USA Soccer Coach
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There were more birds in the air now; not only raptors of bondbird breeding, who had come to the Vale in answer to some unspoken call, but small, colorful creatures in feathered harlequin coats of red, blue, green, and yellow, with raptorial hooked bills and an uncanny ability to mimic human voices.
Widows and Orphans
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The Missus, after a brief passage of raptorial staring: Are you putting salami in that?
I Win The Bet!
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The large strong feet, downturned bill, soaring habit, and certain behaviors of the anhimids are shared by raptorial gruiforms as well.
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raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey
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No one would expect detailed management histories of otters, beavers, muskrats, raptorial birds, and yet the success story of the Yellowstone cutthroat trout is worth telling.
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Their legs are strong, and feathered in many species; they have zygodactyl raptorial feet.
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It can take several days to achieve full adult colour and a hard exoskeleton. breathing through a siphon replenishing the plastron cursorial legs raptorial legs natatorial legs rowing legs
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Density, productivity and biomass of raptorial birds of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh.
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
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Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs.
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Carapace width does not vary within a molt and is proportional to the length of the males' raptorial forelimbs, which they use in attacking other males.
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Note that the male in the image at right has much larger eyes and raptorial appendages.
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The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings.
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The creature would have struck Savage were her raptorial legs not wrapped around Tucker's body.
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However, its main claim to fame is its armament of raptorial claws, bearing a strong resemblance to those of the praying mantis - hence the name.
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But they were raptorial, like Vree, and like him they enjoyed the hunt and the kill-when they actually succeeded at the latter, which wasn't often.
Widows and Orphans
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When mimicking a mantis shrimp, for example, the octopus sits in a burrow with only the eyes and part of the head exposed, and wraps one tentacle around its head to resemble the folded raptorial appendages of the mantis shrimp.
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In other fine raptorial news, the falcons are also back on the Traveler's Tower in Hartford, and they have three eggs.
Never make a promise or plan. take a little love where you can.
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The creature would have struck Savage were her raptorial legs not wrapped around Tucker's body.
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All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion (both in flight and on foot) and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey.
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Numerous explanations exist for the evolution of reversed size dimorphism in raptorial species.
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Their lethal raptorial appendages provide effective weapons for acquiring and defending these homes.
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Rich explained the low relative abundances of vultures and other raptorial groups as consistent with the pattern of relatively low representation in modern avifaunas.
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raptorial birds
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Living alongside the largest sharks ever known, the raptorial—meaning actively hunting—whale measured about 60 feet (18 meters) in length, about as big as a modern male sperm whale.
