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Their resemblance to lizards is the result of symplesiomorphy, their common retention of the primitive tetrapod body plan, and they are no more closely related to lizards than they are to mammals.
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Their translation of " Jef " is another example of a version that bears little resemblance to the original.
Their name came from a resemblance, noted by Green, between Noone and Sherman in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon.
Their traditional common English name comes from a fancied resemblance between their long noses and the trunk of an elephant, and an assumed relationship with the true shrews ( family Soricidae ) in the order Insectivora because of their superficial similarities.
Their resemblance to some Africans, it is generally believed, is due to adaptation to a similar environment, rather than shared origins.
Their brazen surfaces were " occasionally embellished with beautiful pictures ," and all appeared to be of " beautiful antique workmanship, bearing a striking resemblance to the ancient oriental languages.
Their tragic love story has some resemblance to the Austrian Mayerling drama, where Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover took their lives in January 1889.
Their racial, physical and linguistic traits bear much resemblance to the rest of the Sundanese people ; however, the difference is in their way of life.
Their ' mascot ' is the eagle owl ( bubo bubo ) symbolizing wisdom, virtue and humor ( the owl itself presents knowledge and wisdom ) and they bear some resemblance to Freemasons.
Their claims are supported by the peculiarities of the shapes of the characters found in the Nogajori-Khonikor Gaon stone inscriptions of the 5th century A. D. where the letters are distinctly different from Nagari and have close resemblance with the Gupta Script.
Their morphometrical analysis found some resemblance between the species and Oryzomys albiventer of interior mainland Mexico, and they suggested that although O. nelsoni likely represents an old, distinctive lineage, it may have derived from a common ancestor with O. albiventer.
Their resemblance, once assembled, to a bunch of keys gave rise to an alternative name for them of " St Peter's keys ".
Their most common call, a tzit tzit sound, is believed to be the source of their common name, as Buller noted that it " has a fanciful resemblance to the word stitch ".
: Their parents are most likely dead ; a woman named Lufa ( spelling uncertain ) with a strong resemblance to Rally showed up in one episode of the TV series, Mobius Klein, with a few indications that she was Rally's mother.
Their sound bears resemblance to Elliott Smith and Grandaddy, as well as to contemporaries like Pedro the Lion, with whom they performed in a 2004 tour.
Their language ( which Amy is mysteriously able to comprehend ) carries a strong resemblance to French ( phonetically ).
Their spot patterns bore more resemblance to the ocelot than to the juvenile pattern of a cougar.
Their suggested reconstruction of the myth of Osiris-Dionysus, compiled from the myths of ancient dying and resurrected " godmen ," bears a striking resemblance to the gospel accounts.
Their and lizards
Their most recent common ancestor with any other extant group is with the squamates ( lizards and snakes ).
Their whip-like tails can be used to deliver painful strikes and like many other lizards, when grabbed by the tail, the iguana can allow it to break, so it can escape and eventually regenerate a new one.
Their size apart, the young are similar to the adults, but lighter in color, and with a yellow-marked tip to the tail, which is used to lure lizards and frogs.
Their diet can include insects, earthworms, millipedes, lizards and amphibians.
Their diet consists of a variety of animal and plant food ; seeds, fruits, greens, snails, spiders, worms and insects, frogs, lizards, small snakes and small mammals.
Their closest living relatives are the anguid and helodermatid lizards.
Their common feature is that they have slightly dilated tips to their digits, as otherwise they are a varied genus of lizards, containing both arboreal and terrestrial species.
Their common name comes from the fact that they are easily broken: like many lizards, they have the ability to deter predation by dropping off part of the tail which can break into several pieces, like glass.
Their diet consists of almost any creature that they are capable of overpowering: slugs, earthworms, leeches, lizards, amphibians, ants, frog eggs, toads, and rodents.
Their typical diet includes crickets, mealworms, and moths, but they will also take larger prey, such as small lizards, and will even eat small baby mice if given the opportunity ..
Their boats were originally squids, their submarines are enhanced ichthyosaurs ( here called uruketos ), and their guns are evolved monitor lizards which eject projectiles using pressurised gas.
Their diet includes chameleons and other arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds, and eggs from nesting birds, all of which they swallow whole.
Their diet normally consists of insects ( such as grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, and beetles ), small reptiles ( such as lizards and snakes, including rattlesnakes ), rodents and small mammals, tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, snails, small birds, eggs, nestlings, and fruits and seeds like prickly pear cactus and sumac.
Their diet includes a variety of other animals, including rodents, lizards, amphibians and birds.
Their care presents particular problems on account of the lizards ' enormous size and lively dispositions.
Their diets are variable depending on their range, but they are known to eat rodents, lizards, frogs, birds, and bats.
Their primary prey consists of birds, rodents, hares, fruit, carrion, and insects, although they will also eat lizards, armadillos, snails and other invertebrates, lambs, and the eggs of ground-nesting birds.
Their disagreements over this matter are overshadowed by the appearance of the lizards.
Their major sources of food were wild boar, rusa deer, Indian muntjac, red junglefowl, monitor lizards, monkeys and possibly banteng ( the last now also extirpated on the island ).
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Their own easier, slower tempo is especially dear to Southerners ; ;
Their gait is impossible to convey in words.
Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.
Their artistic rationale is given to the witness of unreason.
It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.
Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.
Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.
Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
Their cost is not beyond the hopes of the American pocketbook, the range being about $150 to $1,000, depending on size.
If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.
Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.
Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.
Their amplitude sometimes is as little as two feet from trough to crest.
Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.
Their presence is not as frightening as the discontent which creates their opportunity.
Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of his performance as Mayor.
Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.
Their heights, that is.
Their father is Charles B. Armour.
Their mother is Mrs. Camilla Alsop Wendell.
Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.
Their Eisenhower is insubstantial.
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