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This was a highly gregarious species the flock could initiate courtship and reproduction only when they were gathered in large numbers ; it was realized only too late that smaller groups of Passenger Pigeons could not breed successfully, and the surviving numbers proved too few to re-establish the species.
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Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.
In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``
Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
His claim was therefore `` so highly exaggerated '', the Department concluded, that it `` cast doubt upon his veracity and, consequently, upon his sincerity and good faith ''.
A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.
Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.
The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.
Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.
The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.
I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.
Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.
Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified.
Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.
Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.
Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.
Until independence, Armenia's economy was based largely on industry — chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles ; it was highly dependent on outside resources.
Hence the Rococo style was highly dominated by the feminine taste and influence.
was and gregarious
It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.
He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.
The passenger pigeon was a colonial and gregarious bird practicing communal roosting and communal breeding and needed large numbers for optimum breeding conditions.
Disraeli, favoured by the queen, was a gregarious Tory.
However, another strand of Engels ’ s personality was one of a " gregarious ", " bighearted ", and " jovial man of outsize appetites ", who was referred to by his son-in-law as " the great beheader of champagne bottles.
They were opposites: she was short, open, gregarious, sociable, and liberal, while he was tall, secretive, shy, quiet, introspective, and conservative.
Unlike her brother, Adele was extremely gregarious and took great delight in shocking friends and strangers alike.
He was a cigar-smoking gregarious logging contractor who couldeli have been Premier but for a major political error.
A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the " Three Hours for Lunch Club ".
Although sometimes gregarious in its humor, Sanford and Son was groundbreaking for African Americans on television.
According to Magnus Londen, the time in theatre training was both a joyous time when Holger was able to exert his gregarious side — he loved being the centrepiece of all social activity — but it was also darkened by his sense of lacking a real, and significantly credible, identity.
By the age of 20, she was regarded as witty and gregarious, with a grasp of politics.
" Twachtman's temperament -- by turns gregarious and introspective, restless and serene -- was a major factor in preventing the Cos Cob art colony from becoming a backwater of nostalgic complacency.
Hutton discouraged fraternisation with the West Indies players and this went decidedly against Trueman's grain, given that he was a gregarious character who liked nothing better than to fraternise.
He lived for years in the Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood, California, and was fondly remembered by friends and neighbors as a warm and gregarious host who loved nothing more than to play the piano and sing at parties.
Known for his friendly and gregarious personality, and with the ability to speak six languages, Zatopek was regularly visited at his home in Prague by international athletes he had befriended at competitions.
As a child he was considered the class clown, a poor student, popular and gregarious.
As a Lincoln Republican and a tenured, highly respected captain of Chicago's Sixth Ward black Republican machine, Webster was a stern, but gregarious leader of men who was well connected throughout the Chicago politic.
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he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.
Of these, 1, 356 ( 33. 6 %) were considered to be threatened and this figure is likely to be an underestimate because it excludes 1, 427 species for which there was insufficient data to assess their status.
Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization.
In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.
Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.
A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.
This fossil was originally described as a species of Australopithecus, but White and his colleagues later published a note in the same journal renaming the fossil under a new genus, Ardipithecus.
The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species ; and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber-flora.
He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the " father of biogeography ".
The species was introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
No one knows the exact species it was crossed with to produce color variations of white, cream, peach, magenta and nearly red hues.
The program was successful in terms of increasing the population of blue foxes, but their predation of Aleutian Canadian geese conflicted with the goal of preserving that species.
By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.
When a group of different plant species was prompted by a variety of different stress signals, such as drought or cold, each plant responded uniquely.
Animal species diversity was also significantly impacted: in one study, a Harvard biologist found 24 species of birds and 5 species of mammals in a sprayed forest, while in two adjacent sections of unsprayed forest there were 145 and 170 species of birds and 30 and 55 species of mammals.
According to Ferdinand Bohlmann, the first naturally occurring acetylenic compound, dehydromatricaria ester, was isolated from an Artemisia species in 1826.
The substance so defined was a species.
One of these was the property, an essential universal true of the species, but not in the definition ( in modern terms, some examples would be grammatical language, a property of man, or a spectral pattern characteristic of an element, both of which are defined in other ways ).
A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.
The study found that there was ' no verifiable evidence ' of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species.
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