While the common hippopotamus is gregarious, pygmy hippos live either alone or in small groups, typically a mated pair or a mother and calf.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

The coloring and shape of the pygmy right whale, dark gray dorsally and lighter gray ventrally, commonly with a pair of chevron-shaped lighter patches behind the eyes, is similar to that of the dwarf minke and Antarctic minke whales and at sea may easily be confused with these two species if the jaw and flippers are not carefully observed.

The name means " she who yokes horses ," from zeugos, " yoke of beasts " / " pair of horses ," and hippos, " horse.

It houses three endangered species endemic to Africa: a pair of hippos ( named ' Raja ' and ' Rani '), two white rhinoceros and a female African bush elephant ( named ' Suzi ').

An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.

David reached for the pair of pistols in the saddlebags at his feet.

Grabski looked at the pair of them.

He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

The 2009 series began with a tense draw in the First Test at SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, with final pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar surviving 69 balls.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

At above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the Lunar Module of any other Apollo mission.

In The Word for World Is Forest, Le Guin explains that in order for communication to work with any pair of ansibles, at least one " must be on a large-mass body, the other can be anywhere in the cosmos.

Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles.

The last is equal to a projected separation of about 529 Astronomical Units ( AU ) at the estimated distance of Antares, giving a minimum value for the separation of the pair.

Also, every known pair shares at least one common factor, higher than 1.

Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.

The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.

* The case n = 2 is often illustrated by saying that at any moment there is always a pair of antipodal points on the Earth's surface with equal temperatures and equal barometric pressures.

The snapping is best accomplished with a pair of pliers, and the break occurs at the score lines, where the metal is thinnest.

Because the pairing increases this energy barrier, kicks from oscillating atoms in the conductor ( which are small at sufficiently low temperatures ) are not enough to affect the condensate as a whole, or any individual " member pair " within the condensate.

This mechanism is usually controlled by a button at the top and powered by a spring within the pen body, but other possibilities include a pair of buttons, a screw, or a slide.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the " cooling rings " of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.

* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the Temple Mount blocked the eastward route of the main decumanus, a second pair of main roads was added ; the secondary cardo ran down the Tyropoeon Valley, and the secondary decumanus ran just to the north of the temple mount.

On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, as Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes, he hit the pair a smart blow with his stick.

From June 23 to 26 the pair made eight first ascents in the Devils Crags along with Norman Clyde, and also climbed Mount Agassiz.

Originally exclusive to men, Manhattan College established a cooperative program with the College of Mount Saint Vincent after the pair became coeducational in 1973 and 1974, respectively.

Both sub-islands have a pair of mountains: Shimo-no-shima has Mount Yatate ( 矢立山 ), 649 m ( 2, 130 ft ) high, and Ariake-yama ( 有明山 ), 558 m ( 1, 831 ft ) high.

A paved walkway system extends to a pair of overlooks 500 feet ( 150 m ) to the south allowing views in that direction over the Lake Creek valley to Mount Elbert, at the highest peak both in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, and La Plata Peak, another fourteener and the state's fifth-highest peak.

With Angus providing the analysis and Mount Stephen the acumen, they proved to be a formidable pair.

The station originally wanted the calls WMIX, but at the last minute found out those calls were already being used by a pair of stations in Mount Vernon, Illinois, WMIX AM and WMIX-FM.

: The other pair of Mount Riposed that is one of the foundation of Itbayat.

Co ." consisted of a pair of electrically powered, counterbalanced trolley-style cars connected to an underground steel cable loop running the length of Avenue 43-then a dirt road-to Marsh's Mount Washington Hotel at the 940 '/ 287m summit.

Many Mount Vernon residents claim that Emmett collaborated informally with a pair of black musicians named Ben and Lew Snowden.

In Kenya, Attenborough accompanies a tribesman who calls to a honeyguide, which in turn answers him and leads the pair to a bees ' nest.

* On the Isle of Man in the Ballaugh Curraghs area, there is a feral population of over 100 bred originally from a pair that escaped from the nearby Curraghs Wildlife Park in 1970.

A pair of black-winged stilts bred at the Wildlife Trust's Holme Dunes in 1987, is raising three young.

Image: penguincotswoldwildlifepark. jpg | A pair kissing at Cotswold Wildlife Park

A mated pair on a lake, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

The band was originally composed of the ex-Samson pair of bassist Merv Goldsworthy and drummer Pete Jupp, the Overland brothers – vocalist / guitarist Steve and lead guitarist Chris Overland, both formerly of Wildlife, and keyboardist Philip Manchester, also known as Didge Digital.

* In April, Louisiana State University student David Kulivan sees a pair of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area on the Louisiana / Mississippi border.