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DPIW - Tasmanian Tiger
Its scientific name, Thylacinus cynocephalus, means pouched dog with a wolf's head. Fully grown, it measured about 180 cm (6 ft) from nose to tail ... - 20 dark brown-black stripes that extended from the base of the tail to almost the shoulders. The stiff tail became thicker towards the base and appeared to merge with the body. Thylacines ...
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Adventure Magazine: November/December 2000 @ nationalgeographic.com
North Face. In other words, its directional design provides a stiff tail for riding deep powder and a snappy, slingshot effect out of ... . To get there, Burton built the board with a tip-to-tail wood core and carbon laminates that provide torsion resistance. To ... and less flex underfoot, reducing chatter. A slightly stiffer tip than tail bucks the current trend in snowboard design but helps the nose ...
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Endangered species: White-headed duck
Drakes and ducks have the same size ... are cumbersome at land, but they are very fast in the water, using their odd tail for propulsion. White-headed Ducks breed in shallow fresh or brackish marshes connected with larger ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Toucan
In addition, toucans and woodpeckers have short, stiff tail feathers, or retrices, and nest in tree cavities. Also, toucans and woodpeckers tend to be ... settles its bill down upon its back, tucked under a wing; it then flips its tail straight up and over its head. Violà! A nice, tidy ball of feathers! Two of ...
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Velociraptor - Dinosaur - Extinct Species
Its long and very stiff tail made to balance the Velociraptor helped it to be able to turn nearly on a ...
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Like other members of the woodpecker family, the sapsucker uses its tail both for support and for leverage against the tree ...
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PRBO Conservation Science: Diving Duck trends
Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis Description The Ruddy Duck is a small diving duck with a stiff tail (often held up), and white cheek patches. Breeding males display bright rusty body plumage, black ...
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The Florida Panther Society, Inc.
The Florida panther has short, rather stiff fur, with a slight reddish tinge, highlighted with gray. Its body size is smaller. Its ... the Florida panther’s other distinct characteristics, like the kink at the end of its tail and a cowlick on its back, are a result of inbreeding. The Texas cougar is ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - The Sharks of the Monterey Bay - Pelagic Sharks
Most of those harpooned are female (30 females caught to every ... the shark is closely following another basker in a nose to tail formation. Sometimes several basking sharks will form up in this position ... nearly circle its head. These gills have rigid arches, which have stiff gill-rakers that function much like whale baleen. Van Sommeran/ ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Fish with streamlined bodies and a stiff, crescent-shaped caudal fin or tail, tend to move rapidly through the water by swishing their tail from side to side. This action propels the ... like sculling (rowing a boat with an oar) propels a boat. The caudal fin or tail is not the only fin a fish uses to swim. For example, the pectoral fins ...
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