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Tusks are slightly longer and thicker among males, which use them for fighting, dominance and display ; the strongest males with the largest tusks typically dominate social groups.
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Tusks are also used to form and maintain holes in the ice and aid the walrus in climbing out of water onto ice.
Tusks were once thought to be used to dig out prey from the seabed, but analyses of abrasion patterns on the tusks indicate they are dragged through the sediment while the upper edge of the snout is used for digging.
Tusks are carved predominantly for the tourist trade in East and Southern Africa.
Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species.
Tusks are generally curved, though the narwhal's sole tusk is straight and has a helical structure.
Tusks are used by humans to produce ivory, which is used in artifacts and jewelry, and formerly in other items such as piano keys.
Tusks are a sexually dimorphic trait in many modern mammals, including musk deer, walrus, Asian elephants and many pigs, with tusks being present primarily in males.
Tusks and for
Tusks serve to dig for water, salt, and rocks, to debark trees, as levers for maneuvering fallen trees and branches, for work, for display, for marking trees, as weapon for offense and defense, as trunk-rests, as protection for the trunk.
Tusks and with
* Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals, with Donald R. Prothero, 2003.
Tusks and .
Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals.
Tusks have a variety of uses depending on the animal.
* 1956: Tusks of Indian Elephants.
Tough Tusks was destroyed by the Super Zeo Megazord and Jason returned the necklace to Emily.
In the two-part Power Rangers in Space episode " Countdown to Destruction ," Tough Tusks was seen in Divatox's army.
are and slightly
I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.
The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.
Sometimes slightly stronger theories such as Morse-Kelley set theory or set theory with a strongly inaccessible cardinal allowing the use of a Grothendieck universe are used, but in fact most mathematicians can actually prove all they need in systems weaker than ZFC, such as second-order arithmetic.
Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.
Abimelech's name has three main translations, though none treats the name as being completely Hebrew, and all are slightly contorted.
In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.
The geopolitical arrangements of the commune are slightly different from those typical of Corsica and France.
These two isomers of butene are slightly different in their chemical and physical properties.
It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness, and in psychiatry several other terms are used, specifically " alcohol abuse " and " alcohol dependence ," which have slightly different definitions.
On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!
Regarding alcohol, wines and spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Wine And Spirits shops, where all prices must remain the same throughout the state ( county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly ).
As compared to binary positional systems, BCD's principal drawbacks are a small increase in the complexity of the circuits needed to implement basic arithmetics and a slightly less dense storage.
Bets to insure against blackjack are slightly less likely to be advantageous than insurance bets in general, since the ten in the player's blackjack makes it less likely that the dealer has blackjack too.
They are generally about 10 percent heavier than steel, although alloys using aluminium or silicon may be slightly less dense.
Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).
Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies.
In this case, the forces exerted towards the left and the right are imbalanced in favor of the left ; the balloon will move slightly to the left.
Juveniles are similar but slightly lighter, with tawny coloration on the head, and no long wing plumes.
During thelarche, the developing breasts sometimes are of unequal size, and usually the left breast is slightly larger ; said condition of asymmetry is transitory and statistically normal to female physical and sexual development.
Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns.
There are no clear boundaries between the dialects because they form a dialect continuum, varying only slightly from one village to the next.
Those assigned to the Sunday office underwent the least revision, although noticeably fewer psalms are recited at Matins, and both Lauds and Compline are slightly shorter due to psalms ( or in the case of Compline the first few verses of a psalm ) being removed.
In a slightly more complex form a sender and a receiver are linked reciprocally.
are and longer
Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.
they are no longer a puzzling aspect of intricately variable, local planetary motions.
Therefore, it is plain that the clear distinctions of the nineteenth century are no longer with us.
After Shakespeare the master spirits of western consciousness are no longer the blind seers, the poets, or Orpheus performing his art in the face of hell.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.
Besides, there are no longer enough corruptible journalists about.
When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.
Among them, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: ( 1 ) shorter work weeks, ( 2 ) higher pay, ( 3 ) longer paid vacations, ( 4 ) better transportation, ( 5 ) earlier retirement, and ( 6 ) more education.
If you are planning to tour Europe for longer than a month, it might be wise for you to lease a car.
In considering roleplaying for analysis we enter a more complex area, since we are now no longer dealing with a simple over-all decision but rather with the examination and evaluation of many elements seen in dynamic functioning.
The list of text forms in the W-region of memory and the contents of the information cells in the X and Y-regions are no longer required.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
It was observed that EWC macromolecules are the same diameter ( 15 a. ) but much longer ( up to several microns ) than vertebrate tropocollagen.
True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.
Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion.
In our disbelief we think that we can no longer even use the word and so are unable to even name the elemental power which is so vividly real in this play.
It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.
Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.
They are superficially similar to reptiles but, along with mammals and birds, reptiles are amniotes and no longer require water bodies in which to breed.
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