Their culture flourished until the region began to dry out after 2000 BC.

Their loss is critical in determining the soil's water-holding capacity and how well pasture plants do during dry weather.

The ancient geographer Posidonios wrote of them: " Their country is savage and dry.

Their region is famous for opium cultivation because its dry mountainous landscape is very suitable to growing opium.

Their base of operation included land storage facilities on the shore and on the beach ( Manasota ) to salt, dry and pack the fish in barrels.

Their albums are also notable for the characteristically ' warm ' and ' dry ' production sound, and the sparing use of echo and reverberation.

Their habitus resembles a freshwater diving duck, particularly when moving on dry land.

Their copious illumination, niches. 5 meter deep, provisions for hypocausts beneath the floors to keep the spaces dry, have prototypes in the architecture of Roman libraries.

Their first album Playing with a Different Sex is considered a post-punk classic with strong, sarcastic songs like " It's Obvious " and " We're So Cool " taking a dry look at gender relations.

Their natural habitats include subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and plantations.

Their altitudinal range is from sea level to 2500 m. They are found in closed-canopy tropical forests, including lowland rainforest, montane forest, dry forest, gallery forest and secondary forest.

Their breeding habitat is prairie and dry grasslands in western North America.

Their popularity as model organisms is also related to their prolific breeding, an adaptation to their usually dry environment.

Their breeding habitat is dry rocky locations, including canyons, from southwestern Canada south to Costa Rica.

Their powerful sense of smell allows them to track even dry carcasses 2 km ( 1. 2 mi ) downwind.

Their cargo typically consist of dry foodstuffs such as beans and rice, canned goods, clothing, household goods and appliances, and used cars, trucks, and buses.

Their food need only consist of some combination of human food scraps, fish scraps, and their own carried dry dog food.

Their habitat includes thick bushveld, rocky hillsides, dry riverbeds and anywhere with a constant supply of water.

Their large, spread hooves are well-adapted to allow these antelopes to walk on the sand of their dry habitats.

Their breeding is dependent on the rains and in very dry years they may not breed.

Their dry martinis are very dry, apparently with the ratio of 10 parts gin to 1 part vermouth.

Their pineapple-shaped fruits can be easily removed but are not recommended for eating because they are fairly dry and bitter to the taste.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

Their skin evolved and became more capable of retaining body fluids and resisting desiccation.

Their skin contains little keratin and lacks scales, apart from a few fish-like scales in certain caecilians.

Their tough skin is covered with dermal teeth ( again with Holocephali as an exception as the teeth are lost in adults, only kept on the clasping organ seen on the front of the male's head ), also called placoid scales or dermal denticles, making it feel like sandpaper.

Their sparkling, glittering scales contast to the smooth, even, metallic skin and scales seen in the Ogon varieties.

Their skin varies in colour depending on the subspecies, with some having light or dark gray skin and others having pinkish or even reddish skin.

Their temperature control mechanism relies on action by the bird, which uses its wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leaves these areas bare to release heat.

Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the legs to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger.

Their skin is tan or gray in color and hair is dark brown or black.

Their moist skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water, or under some protection ( e. g., moist ground ), often in a wetland.

Their skin secretes a natural sunscreen substance which is red-colored.

Their skin consists of numerous, fine transverse rings and is often inconspicuously coloured orange, red or brown, but sometimes also bright green, blue, gold or white, and occasionally patterned with other colours.

Their skin, being both rigid and strong, as well as soft and supple, is recognized as being ideal for the production of leather gloves.

Their stings are often incapable of penetrating human skin, so the hive and swarms can be handled with minimal protection.

Their mouthparts are elongated to form a drill-like structure that allows them to penetrate the thick skin of their host.

Their skin is very similar to the common hippo's, with a thin epidermis over a dermis that is several centimeters thick.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

Their children for many years played upon the skin of the white bear – from which the lake derives its name, and the maiden and the brave remembered long the fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-ga could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground.

Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single " Bulletproof skin " was used in the motion picture Stealth.

Their skin is a light blue, and they possess a long, curled tail.

Their teeth are variously suited to being able to grab bits of skin with the scales attached, and such bits of skin and scale formed major components of the stomach contents.