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: Hunters widely sharing the meat has been seen as a costly signal of ability and research has found that good hunters have higher reproductive success and more adulterous relations even if they themselves receive no more of the hunted meat than anyone else.
Owain remained free but even though his campaign had been successful, and the English armies feared both him and the French — he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince.
Many cultures, even those that have hunted them, hold them in awe and feature them in their mythologies.
Pindar, who was a very knowledgeable mythographer, hints that the mythic doe, even when slain and offered to Artemis, also continues to exist, to be hunted once again ( though not killed ) by Hercules at a later time.
* Goyatöka (‘ Crayfish-Eaters ’, often called Yahooskin or Yahuskin, also known as Upper Sprague River Snakes or even Upper Sprague River Klamath, lived along the shores of the Goose, Silver, Warner and Harney Lake, living along Sprague River in the area now comprising Lake and Harney counties of Oregon, and hunted in the Klamath Basin, today federally recognized as part of the Klamath Tribes ).
The bobcat has long been valued both for fur and sport ; it has been hunted and trapped by humans, but has maintained a high population, even in the southern United States where it is extensively hunted.
Anarchist militants were arrested ; even the Black Army and its general, Nestor Makhno, was hunted down at the orders of Leon Trotsky, determined to cleanse Russia of all anarchists with " an iron broom ".
In short, Jews were not simply to be driven out of the German sphere but would be hunted down and destroyed even beyond it .’
Sam is set free once more to flee for his life, hunted by the White Tigers of Kaniburrha, some of whom may be reincarnated gods, perhaps even Kali herself.
Ostrom and Maxwell have even used this information to speculate that Deinonychus might have lived and hunted in packs.
Many species of ducks, including the Canvasback, are highly migratory, but are effectively conserved by protecting the places where they nest, even though they may be hunted away from their breeding grounds.
The account of his murder tells of how he was hunted all day due to his support of the monarchy and even though he threw down money to distract the closing pack, he was run through with a sword and died.
Waterbirds, especially coots and ducks, are hunted fairly often ; even raptors, up to the size of Red-tailed Hawks and Snowy Owls, are sometimes taken.
The dogs can bring down much larger prey, including peccaries, rhea, even a tapir hunted by a pack of 6 dogs.
Every single piece of meat is quality-controlled and registered even when it is hunted game.
As this progresses, Stone is afraid that without their warship, the Clergy, they will be hunted down even for as long as He and Magnus hide.
It was completely purchased by the Lisboete Francisco Marcelino dos Reis in 1940, where for the next 40 years it prospered as the Centro Nevrálgico da Baleação no Faial, then declining in importance with the fall of whaling in the region, and closing completely in 1981 ( even as the last whale was hunted in 1987 ).
He never hunted in India, a very popular destination with British sportsmen of the day, even more so when in fact at the given time it was the golden age of tiger hunting and shikaris.
The Plano cultures are characterised by a range of unfluted projectile point tools collectively called Plano points and like the Folsom people generally hunted bison antiquus, but made even greater use of techniques to force stampedes off of a cliff or into a constructed corral.
Meanwhile, the other Junior Campers, led by " special celebrity dad " Ernest Borgnine, take the correct route, but they end up in an even worse position: after initially finding themselves trapped in a dark, tangled forest and hunted by mountain men, then they are attacked by a bear.
The Humane Society of the United States has criticized these ranches and the people who hunt there for among other reasons that they are still hunting endangered animals even if the animals were raised specifically to be hunted.
Jack jumper ants are proven hunters ; even wasps are hunted and devoured.
It is reported in " Mongol Warrior 1200-1350 " by Stephen Turnbull and Wayne Reynolds available on Google Books that the Mongols ate horse milk powder with water, around 250 grammes a day although an account they quote mentions they took 4. 5 kg along for an expedition, and claims they hunted on campaign, such as digging around for marmots, it also said they ate horse meat ( it is known that the wild Przewalski horses were eaten which contributed to their extinction, but that may have been due to food shortage and was later than the period of the historical Mongols when possibly even these horses were some of them still domestic ), on the other hand they also drank blood from their horses by temporarily opening a vein when in shortage.

even and elephant
In steeply banked beaches off Península Valdés, Argentina, and the Crozet Islands, killer whales feed on South American sea lions and southern elephant seals in shallow water, even beaching temporarily to grab prey before wriggling back to the sea.
He produced an even larger body of work on fossils, dealing with the extinct mammals of the Eocene beds of Montmartre, the fossil species of hippopotamus, a marsupial ( which he called Didelphys gypsorum ), the Megalonyx, the Megatherium, the cave-hyena, the pterodactyl, the extinct species of rhinoceros, the cave bear, the mastodon, the extinct species of elephant, fossil species of manatee and seals, fossil forms of crocodilians, chelonians, fish, birds, etc.
Although it is not the narrator's wish to shoot the elephant, and even though he holds a weapon far beyond the technological capabilities of the natives, his will is not his own and, due to their expectation, he realises that he must shoot the elephant ; " I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind.
The essay finishes with him wondering if they will even understand his motive for having killed the elephant as he merely wished to sustain his pride.
Elephants were even sometimes used in a kind of trial by ordeal in which the condemned prisoner was released if he managed to fend off the elephant.
The tigers in the park have been known to kill much larger animals such as buffalo and even elephant for food.
There is no indication that elephant birds evolved outside Madagascar, and today, the Canary Island eggshells are considered to belong to extinct North African birds that may or may not have been ratites ( Eremopezus / Psammornis ), or even Pelagornithidae, prehistoric seabirds of immense size.
During the hours of daylight, other methods are employed: the rufous elephant shrew, with its carefully cleared network of pathways, has a sharp mental picture of its habitat — even knowing the various shortcuts with which to evade capture.
An even older arms from 1971 to 1997, when the nation was known as Zaire, depicted a leopard head, below it a pair of crossed spears, around it a branch and an elephant tusk.
The late 1980s and 1990s produced the. 700 Nitro Express and the new brass manufacturers allowed even more powerful elephant guns such as the. 585 Nyati by Ross Seyfried,. 577 Tyrannosaur by Colonel Art Alphin and. 585 Gehringer by Karl Gehringer to be made by wildcatters.
Although it has been argued that elephant populations cause change in vegetation structure, some recent studies suggest that this is not the case, even with the large increases in elephant population recorded in the late 1980s.
This fest has come under fire by the media and some officials because the organizers brought an elephant into the college campus ; an act, which is supposedly illegal, even with requisite permission by the government.
Similarly, saint poet Salabega waxes eloquent in praise of the dark Lord Jagannath and says that the Lord swaying and moving like a wild elephant arrives at the Grand Avenue and rides his chariot and destroys in a flash all the sins of his devotees, even if these may be grave or unpardonable.
Abraha, incensed, launched an expedition of forty thousand men against the Kaaba at Mecca, led by a white elephant named Mahmud ( and possibly with other elephants-some accounts state there were several elephants, or even as many as eight )) in order to destroy the Kaaba.
Kako is the ringmaster and Uma becomes an elephant, Oobi becomes her ' lunch ' ( a peanut ), they both become acrobats and even imagine Grampu as a hilarious clown.
When they break into the quarantine area to steal the crate, the mysterious cargo turns out to be an elephant ( the mascot of the Republican Party ) who they named Charlotte after Snowman remarked that she reminded him of his Aunt Charlotte and even smelled like her, too.
* Denial ( refusal to acknowledge abusive behavior, possibly believing that the situation is normal or even beneficial ; also known as the " elephant in the room.
This even extends to undermining the implied premise, expected by those that are familiar with elephant jokes, that an elephant joke is automatically illogical, or even involves elephants at all.

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