(n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
(n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(2) It has been characterised by others in government as just beating back the crocodiles that come close to the boat rather than draining the swamp."
(3) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(4) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(5) The distributions of lipid, glycogen, peroxidase, acid and alkaline phosphatases, beta-glucuronidase and naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase have been studied in the cells of peripheral smears from the wall ghecko and the crocodile.
(6) Such is the success of the image overhaul in some areas that the slogan in the municipality of San Mariano where the foundation works is now: "Philippine crocodile: something to be proud of."
(7) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
(8) The syndrome of crocodile tears, or Bogorad's syndrome is a rare complication of the facial paralysis.
(9) It is her work to change this image through community initiatives that has seen Gatan Balbas recognised with a Whitley Fund for Nature award and helped to bring the Philippine crocodile ( Crocodylus mindorensis ) back from the brink of extinction.
(10) This is the first record of P. multilineata from Asia (Beijing, People's Republic of China) and also a new host record for the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
(11) The ABC reported Scullion believes the Territory government could allow crocodile safaris under its own management plan once an agreement between it and the commonwealth on one-stop shop environmental approvals was settled.
(12) It was concluded that the bilateral paresis was caused by severe septic arthritis secondary to bacteremia, and that the crocodile died from spinal injury caused by the blood transfusion into the supravertebral vein.
(13) People want to hear your accent, to buy you drinks, to ask questions about spiders and crocodiles and Neighbours and maybe the cricket.
(14) Nucleus magnocellularis is probably homologous with the nucleus magnocellularis medialis of lizards and crocodiles, and has been described in turtles as nucleus dorsalis magnocellularis by previous authors.
(15) Gold award • Jean Wiener – Haiti "Lifetime achievement" award for 25 years conserving Haiti's coastal ecosystems and securing its first marine protected areas Whitley Fund for Nature awards • Shivani Bhalla – Kenya Warrior Watch: enabling the coexistence of people and lions in northern Kenya • Luis Torres – Cuba Building a national movement to save Cuba's amazing plant life • Fitryi Pakiding – Indonesia Uniting coastal communities to secure the Pacific's last stronghold for nesting leatherback turtles • Marites Gatan-Balbas – Philippines Taking local action to save the world's rarest crocodile • Melvin Gumal – Malaysia Protecting Borneo's iconic great apes: conservation of orangutans in Sarawak • Stoycho Stoychev – Bulgaria The imperial eagle as a flagship for conserving the wild grasslands of south-eastern Bulgaria • Paula Kahumbu – Kenya Hands off our elephants: delivering African leadership to address Kenya's poaching crisis
(16) Compare this to the Coalition party room, which has more holes than a meat-sack thrown to the crocodiles.
(17) Fear of crocodiles and hippopotami is important because villagers are compelled to use for domestic purposes, the smaller, shallower habitats, where Bulinus (Ph.)
(18) The process begins in the paravasal mesenchyma which is gradually disguised by hemopoietic cells (in chicken embryos--at the stage of 8 days, in crocodiles--23 days of incubation).
(19) Eagle steals camera near crocodile meat trap In the frame Source: Viral Video Chart .
(20) A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life's great mysteries.
Mallard
Definition:
(a.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
(a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adult mallard ducks fed 0, 2, 20, or 200 ppm of cadmium chloride in the diet were sacrificed at 30-day intervals and tissues were analyzed for cadmium.
(2) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(3) Generally metal levels were higher in the salt gland for mallard and black duck, and in the liver for greater scaup.
(4) Neonatal ducklings and chickens were tested for responsiveness to a pulsing pure tone that was as similar as possible to the mallard maternal alarm call.
(5) Twenty-four-hour-old mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos) exhibit a high degree of behavioral freezing (i.e., vocal and locomotor inhibition) upon hearing the maternal alarm call, which the hen utters when potential predators are near the nest.
(6) By the end of August, shorter chain wax esters composed of C6 and C12 acids became the dominant components of the secretion and this composition, previously considered characteristic of mallards, remained constant until March.
(7) Artificially incubated mallard eggs were treated externally with 5 microliter of No.
(8) Mallard drakes accumulated mercury rapidly from dietary dosage of methylmercury dicyandiamide and eliminated it slowly, retaining approximately one half at the end of 84 days; no measurable loss occurred between the end of the 7th and 56th days, but loss resumed concurrently with new feather growth, and continued through the 112th day, the close of the study.
(9) Growth characteristics of the mallards on the other hand, did not differ between the sexes.
(10) The prevalence of influenza varied greatly among the common waterfowl species: mallards 42%, black ducks 30%, blue-winged teal 11%, wood ducks 2%, and Canada geese 0%.
(11) Mallard eggs collected in the wild have been found to contain levels of mercury exceeding the 1 ppm (wet-weight) found in the eggs of hens fed a diet containing 0.5 ppm, but there are no reports of mallard eggs collected in the wild that were found to contain as much mercury (6 to 9 ppm) as eggs from hens fed a diet containing 3 ppm mercury.
(12) In posthatching mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), brain cooling improves with growth.
(13) The 1-24 ACTH-induced increases in B and Aldo synthesis by the mallard and Pekin duck cells exposed to the same range of concentrations were up to 40 and 60 times greater than the corresponding responses of the chicken cells.
(14) The rat mammary gland thioesterase II exhibits approximately 40% homology with a thioesterase from mallard uropygial gland, the sequence of which was recently determined by cDNA analysis [Poulose, A.J., Rogers, L., Cheesbrough, T. M., & Kolattukudy, P. E. (1985) J. Biol.
(15) Differences in the organization of the systems in pigeon and mallard are related to the differing degrees of visual and tactile (trigeminal) contributions to feeding in the two birds.
(16) Two of these, cutinase, a typical serine esterase from the fungus Fusarium solani pisi, and thioesterase B from the uropygial gland of the mallard duck Anus platyrhynchus, hydrolyzed diethylpyrocarbonate so rapidly that histidine modification could not be detected except when the enzymic activity was inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate treatment or by the presence of critical micellar concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulphate.
(17) Localization studies of the hypothalamohypophysial and tuberoinfundibular neurosecretory systems were performed in the adult male mallard duck with an immunoperoxidase techinque for the demonstration of neurophysin (NP) and gonado-tropin-releasing hormone (Gn-RH) and with aldehyde fuchsin for the staining of neuosecretory material (NSM).
(18) Plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels were measured in the mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) following hypothalamic lesions at various sites.
(19) Mallards and black ducks from the Atlantic Flyway and mallards from the Pacific Flyway contained significantly lower DDE residues than in 1969-70.
(20) This was followed by two regions encoding ORF1 and ORF2 which were similar to each other (48% nucleotide identity, 31% amino acid identity), as well as to GrsT, a protein encoded by a gene located adjacent to gramicidin S synthetase in Bacillus brevis, and to vertebrate (mallard duck and rat) thioesterases.