The main poison-producing glands, the paratoids, produce the neurotoxin bufotoxin and are located behind the ears of certain frogs and toads and behind the eyes of salamanders.

The ears are well developed in frogs.

The ears are disproportionately long, and the tail is very thick at the base and gradually tapers.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

The large ears are to sharpen hearing, and the distinctive coloration may help bongos identify one another in their dark forest habitats.

The tail is very short or absent, the ears are small or absent as well, and the external genitalia are hidden in slits or depressions in the body.

Litter sizes are usually small, ranging from 1 – 13 young, which are born with underdeveloped eyes and ears.

In the European whiteface makeup, the ears are painted red.

The ears are proportionately large in relation to the head, while the feet are relatively small in relation to the rest of the body.

Their heads are narrower, their ears longer, higher placed and somewhat closer to each other.

Their ears are shorter and have a more conical form.

Mexican wolves in particular resemble some European wolves in stature, though their heads are usually broader, their necks thicker, their ears longer and their tails shorter.

Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads.

As with the eyes, cetacean ears are also small.

Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

African elephants are distinguished from Asian elephants in several ways, the most noticeable being their much larger ears.

This selective breeding also resulted in physical and behavioral traits appearing that are frequently seen in domestic cats, dogs, and other animals, such as pigmentation changes, floppy ears, and curly tails.

The external ears of felids are also large, and especially sensitive to high-frequency sounds in the smaller cats.

They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears ( pinnae ), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours.

Their ears are large and have simple basal ridges and no marginal bursa.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

Juvenile birds had less prominent grooves in their beaks and had mottled white and black necks, while the eye spot found in adults was not present ; instead, a gray line ran through the eyes ( which still had the white eye ring ) to just below the ears.

Though these harmonicas produced a less distinctive ( and, to many ears, inferior ) sound than their metallic counterparts due to their plastic reeds, Magnus harmonicas, as well as several imitators, soon became commonplace, particularly among children.

The purpose of weighting here is to emphasise the parts of the audible spectrum that our ears perceive most readily, and attenuate the parts that contribute less to our perception of loudness, in order to get a measured figure that correlates well with subjective effect.

In the past, when Great Danes were commonly used to hunt boars, cropping of the ears was performed to make injuries to the dogs ' ears less likely during hunts.

The shape may have been semicircular, arcing forward from a line between the ears, but another popular suggestion, less borne out in the sources, proposes that the entire forehead was shaved back to the ears.

Bokko's appearance was more rabbit-like and less feminine, and she didn't yet have the black tips on her ears, or the tuft of black hair on her head.

Dither algorithms also commonly have an option to employ some kind of noise shaping, which pushes the frequency response of the dither noise to areas that are less audible to human ears.

His pungent sarcasm soon reached the ears of the persons who were its object, and his pen was not less bitter than his tongue.

For one, today a western equal temperament is used to tune traditional instruments, seemingly less harsh and more harmonious according to modern ears but which robs the instruments of their traditional voices, to ears now used to hearing modern tunings, even Chinese ones, traditional tunings sound out of tune and discordant.

Their ears are taller, set close together and strongly erect, the " stop " of the head less well-defined than that of Siberian Huskies.

Said orientations and emplacements eliminated the excess-flesh “ dog ears ”, and thus required a smaller area of donor skin ; resultantly, the broad-based, bilobed flap is less prone to the “ trap door ” and the “ pin cushion ” deformities common to skin-flap transposition procedure.

This could be because it has more noise at high frequencies, or even at frequencies beyond 20 kHz, both of which are less important since human ears are less sensitive to them.

Human ears are less sensitive to distortion in the bass frequencies, and levels are usually expected to be under 10 % at loud playback.

It is known by a variety of common descriptive names such as brain mushroom, turban fungus, elephant ears, or beefsteak mushroom / morel, although beefsteak mushroom can also refer to the much less toxic Fistulina hepatica.

Elephantiasis affects mainly the lower extremities, while the ears, mucous membranes, and amputation stumps are affected less frequently.

His attempts to promote the cause of industrial unionism among rural workers were not as successful as they had been among the miners as his ideas fell on less receptive ears.

Other effects required large mogwai faces and ears to be produced for close-ups, as the puppets were less capable of conveying emotion.

There I would practice my tiny hands on a pair of castanets my father had given me, and more or less unconsciously-one hardly uses reason at that age-I sought to draw sounds from my instrument that did not hurt my ears.

The spotted hyena is the largest member of the Hyaenidae, and is further physically distinguished from other species by its vaguely bear-like build, its rounded ears, its less prominent mane, its spotted pelt, its more dual purposed dentition, its fewer nipples and the presence of a pseudo-penis in the female.

Hearing in owls is highly sensitive and the ears are asymmetrical allowing the owl to localise a sound.

Its large round eyes, short snub nose, sweet facial expression, and small ears give it a highly neotenic appearance that some people may consider cute.

Two holes beneath the highly stylized ears suggest that a necklace or other head ornament was attached to the sculpture.

Threat displays between hostile servals are often highly exaggerated, with the animals flattening their ears and arching their backs, baring their teeth, and nodding their heads vigorously.

The highly valued pōhoi was an ornament made from the skin of the Huia: the bird was skinned with the beak, skull and wattles attached and the legs and wings removed, carefully dried, and the resulting ornament worn from the neck or ears.

They have small rounded, highly sensitive ears and sharp teeth for eating small mammals, birds, insects, frogs, and carrion.

The South American gray fox Lycalopex griseus, is the most common species, and is known for its large ears and a highly marketable, russet-fringed pelt.

If the source of sound is directly in front of the listener, then both ears receive equal intensity, but at frequencies above about 1 kHz the sound that enters the ear canal is partially reduced by the masking effect of the head, and also highly dependent on reflection off the pinna ( outer ear ).

They are most highly developed in the blind mole rats, whose eyes are completely covered by skin, and entirely lack external ears or tails.

In addition, pipids possess highly modified ears for producing and receiving sound underwater.

Crawford's gray shrew has poor vision, so it uses its highly sensitive ears and long nose to hunt down its prey.

The boys were highly delighted at this, and they went to work cooking and feasting upon the lady ’ s sweet cakes, while the artillery of the contending armies was thundering in their ears, dealing out death and destruction on every hand.

" Sharkboy also has an explosive temper which is shown several times in the movie, including a scene in which the Lalas are singing and Sharkboy complains about how his highly trained ears finding their high pitched singing uncomfortable and then becoming very angry and going into a shark frenzy.

* Tom Keogh, Amazon. com ( 2004 ) — The Complete First Season includes all the pleasures and surprises of the show's first mysteries, above all the tempestuous, symbiotic, and highly entertaining relationship between Wolfe ( Maury Chaykin ), a corpulent recluse who grows orchids and analyzes clues from a distance, and the acerbic knight-errant, Goodwin ( Timothy Hutton, also an executive producer on the series ), Wolfe's underpaid eyes and ears on the world.

Compared to their North American cousins, Eurasian wolves tend to have longer, more highly placed ears, narrower heads, more slender loins and coarser, tawnier coloured fur.

White cattle ( often with black or red ears ) are believed to have been highly regarded in Britain and Ireland in very early times, and herds of white cattle were kept as ornamental and sporting animals in enclosed parks for many centuries.