| A hybrid from a male lion and a female tiger is called a liger while a hybrid from a male tiger and a female lion is a tigon. |
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| I volunteered to go down the steep bank with Newby to head the lion off while Ruth and Husseman took the high route. |
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| And the Fresh Air's one-way valve honks when you exhale, emitting a sound akin to the call of an amorous sea lion. |
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| In the upper part of the Shield a lion passant guardant dimidiates the hulk of a medieval ship. |
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| But when we put the camera on the lion in Kenya, the lion actually groomed itself and cleaned the camera lens for us. |
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| I think of the painting of the lion and the tamer, with its own rhythm, where the colours keep on moving with a strange music of their own. |
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| He operated on Shannon in the immediate aftermath of the mountain lion attack and is scheduled for another operation with her on Friday. |
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| For the Oriel Hall coat of arms this has been changed to a gold lion rampant on a blue field within a gold engrailed border. |
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| The third lion was added by King Henry II to represent the duchy his wife, Eleanor, came from and is called Aquitaine. |
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| I saw that many of the doorposts had an engraving of the lion of Judah on the top. |
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| They say it's like the link between the small ocelot and the large cats like the lion and tiger. |
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| The Asiatic lion once roamed the forests of Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia and India. |
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| His works feature a variety of cats like the snow leopard, jaguar, tiger and lion in various settings. |
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| Be as bold as a leopard, as nimble as an eagle, as swift as a deer, and as valiant as a lion in fulfilling the will of your Father in Heaven. |
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| She was wearing black jeans, a red jumper with a lion motif and a black bodywarmer when she disappeared. |
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| Other activities include boat cruise, bush dinners, lion walks and encounter, crocodile farm tours and horseback safaris. |
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| Or, a lion adumbrated, debruised by two bendlets azure, all within a bordure compony argent and gules. |
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| Alternatively, the family can watch a sea lion show at the water park, which has a dolphinarium and a host of water rides to delight the kids. |
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| In other words the pioneers who settled America shot at every lion they saw and they taught the cats to keep their distance. |
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| Indeed, in the flesh he has more than a passing resemblance to a slightly moth-eaten circus lion. |
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| The lion roaming in a field with Manhattan as a backdrop really captures the dichotomous feeling of the record. |
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| Thieves appear to have tried to pull the 3ft-high lion down from its plinth on top of a 12 ft stone pillar. |
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| From lawyers to lion tamers, some of their career aspirations may surprise you. |
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| An endangered monkey, the golden-headed lion tamarin, had already been spotted in the same habitat. |
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| Folk dance traditions are strong among Taiwanese, the lion dance and the dragon dance being the most typical. |
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| The hall is a venue where Chinese-Indonesians practice barongsai, or the lion dance, their ancestral cultural legacy they cultivate in Indonesia. |
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| In absence of traditional lion costumes, they are performing the lion dance by holding their briefcases over their heads. |
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| Besides sampling specialities like beef choi sum and sha cha chicken, guests were also treated to a colourful lion dance. |
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| Plans for this year include the magnificent 7-headed dragon dance, lion dances and acrobatics as part of the region's traditional celebrations. |
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| Walking proudly, as only a member of its species could, a mountain lion cub stepped out into the open. |
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| There are springbok, wildebeest, red hartebeest, lion, leopard, cheetah and giraffe among others. |
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| At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. |
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| The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion. |
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| Drums, gongs and cymbals are played during the dance to symbolically heal the lion and scare away any evil spirits and bring good luck. |
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| What's more, does anything except the odd ant lion and rare aardvark eat ants? |
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| However, when excluding one outlier, the ant lion, the correlations are again significant. |
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| The remains of forest elephants, rhinos, and a cave lion indicate that the climate was generally warmer than it is there today. |
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| A group of red lechwe jumping and scattering in different directions can quickly confuse a lion. |
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| How many different animals are there in a box of animal crackers? i know there is the lion the bear and zebra. |
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| I saw pug marks, droppings, I even heard them roar, but for four days I did not see a single lion. |
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| He waited a beat and then stood up, shoulders square to the lion, facing him in an unequivocal challenge. |
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| So he performs yet another act of selflessness and goes to beard the lion in his den. |
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| Wole Soyinka is one of those writers who subscribe to bearding the lion in his den. |
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| This, however, was bearding the lion in his den, the lady being cared for in a milder way by the authorities, while James returned home. |
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| By this time we were willing to try anything, so he turned up early the next day prepared to beard the lion in his den. |
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| The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile. |
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| So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den. |
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| She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den. |
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| She bearded the lion in his den with a revelation-packed bombing campaign, attempting to beat him into coalition. |
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| And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed. |
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| Deciding to beard the lion in his den, I visit Dr. Gerald Imber, a Fifth Avenue plastic surgeon. |
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| The agency decided to keep two-thirds of sea lion critical habitat closed to fishing, and the judge lifted his injunction. |
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| Along with The Sierra Club, it is lobbying to have the fish farms moved inland, away from sea lion temptation. |
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| The Steller sea lion is an animal that's survived natural cycles in North Pacific waters for 3 million years. |
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| A sea lion lets out a single long deep-throated bellow that eerily pierces the air like an elephant's roar. |
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| Ancol is also conducting a major renovation on Gelanggang Samudra, an oceanarium which is famous for its dolphin and sea lion shows. |
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| When a male tiger is crossed with a female lion, there can be an offspring called a tiglon. |
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| Examples include tigons, a cross between a male tiger and a female lion, and beefalos, a cross between an American bison and a domestic cow. |
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| A liger is a tigress and lion union and tiglons, on the other hand are the products of tigers and lionesses. |
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| He said you had the courage of a lion, the strength of an elephant, and you fought like a ferocious tiger! |
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| The reason that this can happen is that both the lion and the tiger are big cats. |
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| A lone killer whale near a Canadian fishing village was a skilled mimic that barked just like a sea lion, a new study reveals. |
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| It is eventually retrieved with the help of a lion and a little-known creature called a bandicoot. |
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| A lion statant gardant on the royal crown, with the words FOR VALOUR on a semi circular scroll. |
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| He noted that the carnivores require vast territories and that some lion prides exist entirely outside park boundaries. |
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| The lion made no answer, the stark terror in his eyes saying everything that needed to be said. |
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| Alex, a lion who just loves his steak, is the star attraction at the New York Zoo. |
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| Suddenly my ears perked up, like a gazelle being alerted to a lion prowling about. |
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| He looked firmly at the villagers, who were heaping piles of straw around the lion with mechanical motions, as if they were going to burn it. |
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| She stood staring at the lion while students jostled her and pushed their way to their friends. |
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| The images of the Scottish thistle, the lion rampant, and the Saint Andrew's cross on the national flags come from that period. |
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| In English heraldry, we find examples of a lion passant on the upper trait of a barry field. |
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| The barry field and ermine lion are from the heraldry of the Cecils, and Hatfield has been the seat of this branch of the family ever since. |
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| These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind, a lion or a cheetah. |
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| Activists did not consider it Scottish enough and chose a new logo featuring a lion apparently scratching at a red door. |
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| This rope feature and the lion paw feet, legs, and exaggerated acanthus leaves are very similar to the one at Glin. |
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| Better fall to my death when the trunk is gnawed off by the rats than be killed by the lion. |
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| In addition, mule deer and bobcat are in abundance on the course, and a mountain lion makes infrequent visits every year or so. |
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| The billy goat is far more dangerous than the bear and mountain lion combined, assuming some mad scientist could breed a mountain bear lion. |
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| Taylor killed on one occasion a lion who lost a fore limb in a trap, and the infirmity had turned him into a dangerous man eater. |
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| A lion with a majestic mane has long been a trophy coveted by big game hunters in Africa. |
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| In today's travel jungle, the unhappy customer is the lion a travel agency should most fear. |
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| I didn't have the heart to point out the zodiacal error, that Leo is usually depicted as a lion. |
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| I declare this a lifetime top-ten paddle even before a sea lion launches itself onto a rock and poses, head straight up. |
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| Even a man of Karsh's considerable charm couldn't have turned Churchill from lion to lamb in an instant. |
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| This winged beast with the body of a lion and the head of an eagle is said to watch over hidden treasures. |
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| Gangs of bevvied thugs stumble the streets, eyeing pedestrians as the lion does the gazelle. |
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| The bones of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, bison, and great Irish elk were found. |
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| In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb. |
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| But when you finally drag yourself up to where the lion is treed, it's a spectacular sight. |
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| He's a lion on the battlefield, but you can't imagine him having visions, or much of the milk of human kindness. |
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| The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion. |
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| It has cabriole legs headed with a gilt brass-winged lion mask and paw sabots. |
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| On the middle pillar of the canopy-work are the arms of this knight, a lion salient, impaling a spread eagle, the arms of his lady. |
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| He becomes a raging lion when he is angry, a tiny mouse when he is scared and a multitude of other forms depending on how he is feeling. |
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| Our own touch mark, a lion rampant, which appears on our hollowware, is modeled on that of Thomas Danforth II, who had six pewter smith sons. |
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| The animal was the size of a large sea lion, with broad webbed feet on both fore and hind limbs, so it could both walk and swim. |
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| There is no quota on the total number of animals that landowners may kill, though they are restricted to one mountain lion per person. |
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| So, assuming the mien of a lion, I sit in the open, hiding my coward's heart. |
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| The warrior goddess, riding upon a lion and wielding a weapon in each of her 10 arms. |
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| African lion populations have greatly declined in West Africa and in many African countries they are restricted to protected areas. |
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| In Espanola's Gardner Bay, a hungry ocean shark, come to prey on young sea lion pups, chased a group of snorkelers onto the rocks. |
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| In most parks and game reserves of East Africa, however, the lion is impressively visible. |
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| Lea, a lively and curious lion cub, gallivants all over the savanna until she is frightened by a rhinoceros. |
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| The Daily Dispatch switchboard was almost jammed yesterday as readers called to suggest their names for three lion cubs at the East London Zoo. |
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| At the moment the Zoo has six eight-month-old lion cubs in a large enclosure, all looking very alert and handsome at 9 o'clock at night. |
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| The camera passed with flying colors, enduring feeding frenzies and the nibbles of lion cubs. |
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| We've cross-bred the donkey and the horse, the lion and the tiger, and I want more. |
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| Her lion tail flicked idly behind her as she walked towards the nearby creek. |
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| Officers were forced to cut the string off with a knife, specifically designed for such incidents, after flushing the sea lion out of hiding. |
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| This forces parched buffalo, waterbucks, and other lion prey to gather at one of the few remaining sources of water. |
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| Early in his reign he took his family to watch a lion pitted against a bear. |
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| The lion was normally a competent fighter, but he had been taken totally off-guard. |
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| In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances. |
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| A small space was fenced off so that the lion could move about, unhindered. |
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| Could these be the same birds that every year turn up hundreds of miles away along the desert coast just in time for the sea lion pupping season? |
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| When the girl and the lion first appear in the tale we are told that she is lousing him, which illustrates the bond between them. |
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| A sea lion cruised by me as I breathed compressed air ten metres under the surface of the sea near Victoria. |
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| A staple of circuses, lion tamers dazzle audiences by prodding the big cats to perform. |
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| A Big Top will showcase live acts including lion tamers, knife throwers, trapeze artists and escapologists. |
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| The tune evokes clowns in bloomers and lion tamers, even for those who have never been under the big top. |
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| Many of the species, such as the black-faced lion tamarin of Brazil, were only recently discovered and have dangerously small populations. |
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| The golden lion tamarin and the black lion tamarin, for example, have benefited from efforts for their protection by the Brazilian government. |
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| The exhibit will highlight the jaguar but also will feature golden lion tamarins, tapirs, anteaters and other animals. |
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| The events are highlighted with dragon dances or lion dances, which used to be seen here only on television or in the movies. |
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| Over 100 members of the troupe performed in Sriracha with shows including dragon dance, lion dance, a bicycle show, and fire dragon. |
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| Aslan, the great lion, is the only creature that can protect them from the terrifying danger that lies ahead. |
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| Special events include fortune telling, martial arts, lion dance, a street market and more. |
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| It is believed that the lion dance will bring good luck to households and businesses they visit. |
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| Some people will be familiar with the lion dance, the foot juggling woman on a unicycle and the pole acrobats. |
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| The lion, sometimes called the King of the jungle, prefers killing antelopes while bushbuck are preferred by leopard. |
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| There are antelope species like eland, impala, puku, waterbuck, bushbuck and kudu whereas lion leopard, wild dog and hyaena are also present. |
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| So I'm not surprised to hear that they're not planning to kill the lion that tore off the arm of the twenty one year old zookeeper. |
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| He later discovered that there is a ritual of initiation into the army in which all applicants are anointed under the spirit of the lion. |
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| Like the panthers, and lion, and jaguars, there are huskies, beagles, greyhounds, danes, rottweiler, and a few others. |
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| The lion is a canting emblem for Leo X, though here, facing to sinister, it is heraldically incorrect. |
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| Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India. |
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| The crest has a red Scottish lion with a fleury counter fleury collar resembling the tressure in the arms of that country. |
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| That's a North American thing, but we're giving away champagne at the party as well as having the lion dance. |
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| A panorama of the Houses of Parliament is sculpted in silver and 24-carat gold, along with the lion and unicorn from the royal standard. |
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| Horses run free across the meadowlands and the lion will sleep with the lamb. |
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| You're like a lion that's stumbled upon a three-way tug-of-war over a leopard's kill. |
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| A picture of a giraffe or a lion on quality stretch cotton material will also be an ideal choice. |
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| On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew. |
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| Representing cultures throughout Asia, the museum also offers events from traditional Chinese lion dances to Mongolian butter sculpting. |
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| Here, you will have a close encounter with fearsome lions, restless cheetahs, ferocious leopards, and sweet-looking lion cubs. |
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| Three female lions and two lion cubs were sleeping together under the trees about five metres from our mini-bus. |
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| A troupe of lion cubs nuzzled her hand and chewed playfully on her shoelaces. |
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| The wildlife to see here includes buffalo, hippo, black rhino, lion and wild dog. |
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| The ancient emblem for the nation was a lion holding a scimitar against a rising sun. |
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| It was like a lion's paw pressing down on my throat, but at the same time the lion succored me, licking my young face. |
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| As the lion and I depart the chamber I hear a tuneless toot of the whistle and the magical whoosh of the cloud of numbers. |
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| Now we're racing, gliding past the San Francisco waterfront with a sea lion porpoising alongside. |
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| I will stand in your heart as fierce as the lion of Judah, as strong as the temple we shall build. |
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| In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent. |
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| Notice the maker's mark is missing and that the lion passant mark is eroded in a peculiar fashion not consistent with normal wear. |
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| It's amazing how the tiger can jump through flaming hoops, how the bear can ride a motorcycle and how the lion can walk on a tightrope. |
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| Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys. |
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| The black-caped lion of Cabin Boy to Barbary stands over the body of Delacroix, his kit and illustrated notebooks scattered in the rampage. |
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| Sow bugs form hordes in the warm, smelly monkey house where golden lion tamarins live. |
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| A wild eagle owl can be as vicious as a lion cub, hardly the sort of creature you would take in as a pet. |
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| Few crustaceans hunt prey as a lion or a tiger does, but the mantis shrimp visually selects and stalks its victim. |
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| Apparently they don't even have the delightful touch farm and lion enclosure anymore. |
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| There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf. |
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| The mountain lion responsible for killing a particular deer was positively identified in 179 instances. |
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| A mountain lion living in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico wears a radio collar to help conservationists track the large cat's movements. |
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| During the ride, Anne was savagely attacked by a mountain lion, the same mountain lion that had killed another biker several hours later. |
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| I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from. |
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| The right side of the Apache resembled a piece of meat after a lion had ripped it up. |
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| He has seen golden eagles, bobcats and even mountain lion tracks on the course. |
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| The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her. |
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| It has been estimated that in the 1960's, poachers were responsible for approximately 20,000 lion deaths per year in Serengeti National Park. |
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| Instead, we are treated to four vigorous profiles, with only the lion and the mylodon drawn full frontal. |
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| It's the eagerly awaited second novel from the 28-year-old Foer, currently the hottest young literary lion around. |
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| Soon he was to move on to London and celebrity, becoming a literary lion of the metropolis of the Nineties. |
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| He does not ignore the psychological complexities of Ellison, who was not the drab, neutered literary lion some critics made him out to be. |
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| Only if the other lions accept him into their fold, would Simba be released into the lion enclosure. |
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| Every morning in Africa, a gazelle gets up in the morning and starts running, knowing that that very day it has to outrun some lion that is waiting to prey on it. |
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| Plainly, the incident with the lion caused an incredible fear within him. |
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| Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked. |
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| Mr Miles was able to turn the clock body and the main column but then had to fashion the square base, carve four lion heads to go on the base and a crown to go on the top. |
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| One stamp contains an image of a lion fish, heraldically striped. |
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| In certain African tribes, one had to slay a lion to prove one's manhood. |
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| The green lion symbolizes an emerald or an oriental sapphire and means stature and robust person, wealth, cool and courageous, stable and sincere, unconditional love. |
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| Still to be introduced are the hippo, cheetah, lion and brown hyena. |
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| But the proud stone lion that once stood atop the tomb, as Peristeri has often maintained, suggests a male occupant and a warrior. |
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| I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish. |
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| Tracks made by birds, elk, deer, big horn sheep, Rocky Mountain goats and the occasional mountain lion are more common in the Black Hills back country. |
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| He realizes it is a mountain lion and he is scared to death. |
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| She fixed her eyes on the mountain lion and breathed slowly. |
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| This was not an African lion but an American mountain lion, also known as a cougar or puma, a cat the size of a leopard that was once rare and considered virtually harmless. |
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| This was not an African lion but an American mountain lion also known as a cougar or puma, a cat the size of a leopard that was once rare and considered virtually harmless. |
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| In fact the fence where a fullgrown lion and tiger are kept is so low that I was able to put my arm over the fence to get an unobscured photograph. |
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| A formidable creature half lion, half eagle, the griffin is said to be one thousand times stronger than any lion and five thousand times as farsighted as an eagle. |
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| One clever sea lion found his way into one of the dam's fish ladders, which allow salmon to bypass the dam's power station on their way to spawning grounds upriver. |
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| One night not long ago, I intercepted a mountain lion in a dry wash. |
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| The tiger, the panther, and the leopard possess mythical characteristics of the lion as a hidden sun, with which they are, moreover, sometimes confounded in their character of omniform animals. |
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| The wild Felidoe, which range in size from that of the lion and tiger down to the pretty rusty-colored or rubiginous oat of India, is only some sixteen inches in length. |
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| A small pipeclay lion was found, with traces of brown glaze on the mane. |
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| After Apollonius has recognized a lion as a reincarnation of Egypt's last pharaoh Amasis, he sets out in the company of ten disciples for the Ethiopian gymnosophists. |
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| Move ahead and one can see lion and tiger cubs playing together. |
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| The lion looked away again and gave itself an embarrassed lick. |
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| An April 2004 proposal by the Kenya Wildlife Service for the management of Africa's lion population asserted that current levels of hunting are unsustainable. |
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| Rather, it's in betting on which young lion may take him out. |
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| Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print. |
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| Endre Farkas' invitation to celebrate literary lion Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday inspired a series of performative prose-poem vignettes, Proem Cards From Chile. |
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| Maybe just the act of posting a novel in a forum where bored Babus can read it and slam it will be enough to awaken the sleeping literary lion in aspiring novelists. |
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| Hu is also expected to attend some of the cultural activities, which include dragon and lion dances, red-fan performances, Peking Opera and martial arts. |
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| The lion dance will feature the Central Ontario Chinese Cultural Centre. |
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| A lone cheetah, a lone tiger and an African lion and a couple of lionesses are no more exciting than small herds of kangaroo, deer, giraffe or Barbary sheep. |
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| To photograph the black-faced lion tamarin, one of the world's rarest and most elusive primates, I went to the Atlantic coast rainforest of Parana State in southern Brazil. |
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| It may not be quite as thrilling to photograph a lion or a zebra in a zoo as it is in the veld of Africa, but you can still make some terrific pictures. |
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| Home to numerous crocodiles and hippo, the Great Ruaha draws many thirsty waterbuck, leopard, buffalo, reedbuck, wild dogs, lion and hyena to its banks. |
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| Somewhere in the basalt hills a lion roared, the sound carrying through the night until another responded. |
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| This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester. |
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| It has skillful carving of a lion on the headboard and the footboard. |
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| Another of the most popular attractions at the park is a petting zoo which lets the public get close to a pair of lion cubs and a four-week-old giraffe calf. |
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| The lion was shot with tranquilizer darts and dragged away to the zoo. |
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| Obstinate Pierre refuses to care about anything, even when a passing lion threatens to eat him. |
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| There he is astonished to see a lion and a lamb in the same enclosure. |
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| Historically the kingdom has loomed over Qatar like a hungry lion eyeing an annoying mouse. |
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| If well-performed, the lion dance is believed to bring luck and happiness. |
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| Indeed, the lion pounced and the two scuffled, which ended with Hope Butler running out the door in a hurry, dashing as far she could across the concrete jungle. |
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| A quick poll revealed that the embattled veteran, featuring a sword, taiaha, crown, and lion is more than adequate to represent the army's brand frontage. |
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| In daylight, a lion could starve waiting for a perfect ambush. |
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| The researchers discovered shards of bone from mammoths, musk ox, brown bear, wolverine, rhinoceros, hares, bison, horses, reindeer, and cave lion. |
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| The young protagonists are helped by the talking lion Aslan, and by the power of a prophecy stating that four children will end her terrible reign. |
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| One of the pieces conserves part of a painted lion, probably a surviving portion of the arms of Louis d' Halluin, which seems to have disappeared from the right lancet. |
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| Perhaps a little more exciting to catch sight of is the bighorn sheep, mule deer, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote or one of the amazing birds of prey. |
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| She was mauled by a 5-year-old 550-pound African lion named Cous Cous as she was cleaning his cage. |
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| The lion shook his mane, rushed towards the creature and wounded it. |
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| They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory. |
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| The most dangerous animal to encounter when walking, I discovered, is not a lion but a cantankerous male buffalo. |
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| Incidently, the first States General seal was of the 17 United Netherlands, adopted in 1559, in which the lion clinched 17 arrows in his left paw. |
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| Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. |
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| Perhaps we can suggest to them that a sea lion would be a better mascot? |
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| It is said that what the lion is to the cat, the mastiff is to the dog. |
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| No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den. |
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| Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den. |
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| So how about a wild beast which is half lion and half tiger? |
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| The lion has lain down with the lamb, in other words, and the unanimity seems so surreal that I might as well keep dreaming. |
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| The Cape Colony had the annulets in the same field as a rampant lion. |
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| Like the lion, so-called king of the beasts, the Leonian can be regal. |
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| Whichever situation is represented here, the painting seems like a snapshot of lion behavior, a realistic representation of a true-life event the painter witnessed firsthand. |
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| This was also found in at least one other insect species, the ant lion. |
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| Chastity pulled her hand away quickly, as if the book was a roaring lion. |
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| In his film pieces, he often made use of commercial production techniques or isolated bits of Hollywood films, as when he created a continuous loop of the roaring MGM lion. |
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| It started well, with a traditional lion dance, and we're seeing more and more social interaction between the two groups, particularly on the sporting field. |
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| This was an American mountain lion also known as a cougar or puma, a cat the size of a leopard that was once rare and considered virtually harmless. |
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| The poor fellow has neither the tusks of the elephant, nor the claws of the lion, nor even the horns or pointed teeth or stings and poison glands. |
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| The use of the talipots and the lion flag were conceded by the king to a chief in the Uggalboda sannas, together with the use of the ceremonial torches. |
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| The Wildlife Trust also works with black lion tamarins, but its work concentrates on improving and connecting isolated pockets of tamarin habitat in Brazil. |
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| Instead of being robed in the skin of a lion or a leopard that is customary for African royalty, he is clad in a cape made from the skin of some wild animal. |
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| A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces. |
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| It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark. |
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| When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs. |
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| Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is anointed with them. |
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| Other new additions include two goldenhead lion tamarins, two two-toed sloths and hundreds of tiny baby seahorses. |
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| Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch. |
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| No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp. |
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| And that softness is a modern-day killer,the equivalent of the savanna-dweller's lion. |
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| The leopard is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common. |
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| Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth. |
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| Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion, but a man. |
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| In 1953, the club crest was changed to an upright blue lion looking backwards and holding a staff. |
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| The habitats are also a world priority for conservation, home to species including lion, bushbaby and sunbird. |
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| A SURFER needed stitches in a leg wound after being attacked by a sea lion, which bit through his wet suit. |
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| By 1880, black jerseys with a red lion embroidered on the chest were introduced by William McGregor. |
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| In the shield background there are 11 thistles, representing the national flower of Scotland, in addition to the lion rampant. |
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| The shirt is embroidered with a crest based upon the lion rampant of the Royal Standard of Scotland. |
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| The crest is a statant guardant lion wearing the St Edward's Crown, himself on another representation of that crown. |
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| Landseer, the sculptor, had asked for a lion that had died at the London Zoo to be brought to his studio. |
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| Catalina Island is also home to the aquarium, a large coral formation inhabited by toad fish, sea horses and the lion fish. |
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| The whole symbol bears a passing resemblance to the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, particularly with the lion supporters. |
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| And that softness is a modern-day killer, the equivalent of the savanna-dweller's lion. |
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| For supporters, she used the crowned lion of England on the dexter side, and on the sinister, the wyvern Vert of Portugal. |
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| The supporters, a lion and a bear, stand on a bed of acorns, a link to Bladud, the subject of the Legend of Bath. |
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| He in pointed basinet and chain mail, a lion at his feet and dagger and sword hanging from his belt. |
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| The Internet went ballistic in July over the killing of Cecil, a much-loved, 13-year-old lion that lived in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. |
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| The assembly elections cannot come soon enough, let's roar like the Scotish lion, not bleat like Welsh lamb. |
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| Vessels have dragged up remains of mammoth, lion and other animals, as well as a few prehistoric tools and weapons. |
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| I can still tie a reef knot and even stalk a man-eating lion, crucial around our way. |
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| Edward kept a camel as a pet and, as a young man, took a lion with him on campaign to Scotland. |
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| Other marine mammal prey species include nearly 20 species of seal, sea lion and fur seal. |
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| The Newcastle University arms are blazoned Azure, a Cross of St Cuthbert Argent, and on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant Gules. |
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| I've not had the good fortune to taste wild sheep, axis deer or mountain lion, but I am told they are all outstanding. |
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| If some cause aroused his temper, he seemed as terrible as a lion, but he never revealed his anger by railing. |
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| As sovereign, he used the arms of the kingdom undifferenced, supported by a white boar and a lion. |
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| On the west coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, seal and sea lion populations have also substantially declined. |
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| In this way, her principal character, Ayla, made pets of a wolf, a horse, and improbably a cave lion. |
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| After the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, Nelson was dubbed a Knight of the Bath and granted heraldic supporters of a sailor and a lion. |
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| New Zealand sea lions feed on pups of some fur seal species, and the South American sea lion may prey on South American fur seals. |
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| Up until 2008, the lion symbol was depicted behind Britannia on the British fifty pence coin and on the back of the British ten pence coin. |
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| In 2011, a captive California sea lion named Ronan was recorded bobbing its head in synchrony to musical rhythms. |
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| A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut. |
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| Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up. |
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| So then all of sudden he starts doing that crouchy thing, you know, when he looks like a lion on the hunt. |
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| I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm. |
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| In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain. |
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| Barry Island's elephant, water buffalo and lion What happened to the lion we used to have our photo taken on? |
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