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... eyes than to a difference in the eyes themselves. The most conspicuous expressions are those of aggressive threat and defensive threat, as Paul Leyhausen calls them. An angry and purely aggressive lion lowers its neck obliquely and ...
... eyes than to a difference in the eyes themselves. The most conspicuous expressions are those of aggressive threat and defensive threat, as Paul Leyhausen calls them. An angry and purely aggressive lion lowers its neck obliquely and ...
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... eyes focus on a potential meal, perhaps a dying gazelle or a still-born zebra foal. The vultures then hurtle down to throw themselves upon the carcass, a hissing, struggling mass of birds whose unappeasable hunger can strip all meat off ...
... eyes focus on a potential meal, perhaps a dying gazelle or a still-born zebra foal. The vultures then hurtle down to throw themselves upon the carcass, a hissing, struggling mass of birds whose unappeasable hunger can strip all meat off ...
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... eyes imprisoned by the narrow beams of the headlights. Twin rubies may burn brightly in a fever tree along the river, the enormous eyes of a galago, and a pair of silvery lights may bounce across the open grasslands, tracing the path of ...
... eyes imprisoned by the narrow beams of the headlights. Twin rubies may burn brightly in a fever tree along the river, the enormous eyes of a galago, and a pair of silvery lights may bounce across the open grasslands, tracing the path of ...
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The Seasons | 25 |
Life in the Pride | 60 |
Neighborly Disputes | 102 |
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