Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years. |
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Among these, the best known are the stunning Asiatic and Oriental lilies, dramatic gladioli, and the many incarnations of dahlia. |
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When the first Spanish and Portuguese explorers arrived in the New World they found Asiatic chickens. |
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Quail-like francolins are more closely related to Asiatic phasianids and partridge-like species are closer to Eurasian partridges. |
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There are several different types of bears, including the Asiatic, sun bears, brown, grizzly, black, Kodiak, sloth, giant panda and polar bears. |
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The tiger lily has played a very important role in the development of the Asiatic hybrids and other lilies. |
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One night his troops encounter an old Asiatic hermit named Dersu Uzala, who lives in the wilderness, surviving by hunting and selling furs. |
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Asiatic false hawksbeard is found from Pennsylvania to Texas and all states southeast, as well as Hawaii. |
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Even unique mammals such as sousliks, saiga antelope, and Asiatic cheetah may survive in the remote reaches of these mountains and valleys. |
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The only Asiatic breed of significance today, the Brahma, which originated in India, has three varieties. |
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Another population of Asiatic lions is desperately needed in order to safeguard the survival of this subspecies. |
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In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. |
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Asiatic lilies make up for having little or no scent with the beauty of their huge upturned flowers in luminous colours. |
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When the religion was established, its founders were influenced by Greek philosophy and Asiatic thought. |
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A few years later I was in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in India's Gujarat state, where the last remaining Asiatic lions live. |
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The Asiatic lion once roamed the forests of Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia and India. |
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I've nearly done a long, leisurely Asiatic tale in which there are hardly any Englishmen. |
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The arrival of Asiatic cholera in Europe in 1830, against which quarantines proved singularly ineffective, heralded the demise of the system. |
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Warman devotes most of the remainder of the book to tracing the history of corn in major areas of the world, dealing first with Asiatic locales. |
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In Asiatic Frontier delineations tribal boundaries, except where overridden by political considerations, are apt to be observed. |
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Arna is a 46-year old Asiatic elephant who was transported to Australia as an orphan from Vietnam many decades ago. |
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Modern Wicca, hybrid Asiatic astrologies, and new geomancy beliefs, are perhaps too new. |
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Endangered include tapir, guar and banteng, wild buffalo, serow, red dog, Asiatic elephant, and leopard. |
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In the intervening years the ruble collapsed along with other Asiatic currencies. |
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The North was to send 16 animals, including Asiatic black bears, lynx, coyotes, African ponies and Siberian weasels, zoo officials said. |
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The best Aleppo galls, collected in Asiatic Turkey, principally in the province of Aleppo, are collected before the insects escape. |
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Among the wildflowers, most of which bloom in April and May, are jack-in-the-pulpit, several kinds of violets, and Asiatic dayflower. |
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As a rule, Asiatic lilies have tall, strong stems with 4-to 6-inch leaves radiating outward along the stem and clusters of flowers at the top. |
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Though often pricier than Asiatic lilies, Oriental lilies have such impact in the vase that just a stem or two go a long way! |
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Several European and Asiatic spruces have promise for use as Christmas trees in Ohio. |
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The zoo had received its three Asiatic lions just two years ago as part of a European endangered species programme. |
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Several of these he had had printed himself, financed by advance subscription from libraries and members of learned bodies such as the Royal Asiatic Society. |
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These forests are home to other unusual and endangered species, including the Asiatic jackal and silvered langur, many of which have also disappeared from Laos. |
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Another extreme example of habitat adaptation is found in hillstream loaches, which live in the steep, torrential watercourses of Asiatic hillstreams. |
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For a sunny bed, I've planted wide swaths of bearded iris, Asiatic lilies, and daylilies together, which becomes the mid-summer highlight of my garden. |
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Geographically, the 500-square kilometre Kunopalpur forest, partly covered with grassland required for Asiatic Lion, is said to be more suitable for the lions. |
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They asked about the differences between an African and Asiatic lion, about how a radio collar works and how the shrinking forests have affected the animals. |
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Also look for complex hybrids of black raspberries and various species of other raspberries and blackberries, including some that are tropical and Asiatic. |
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The Asiatic Society of Mumbai has instituted six fellowships of one-year duration in Indology, Social Sciences, History of Maharashtra and on an area concerning Japan. |
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It is quite a good idea to pay attention to low price fur products in the US market, such as Asiatic raccoon garments, corsac fox garments, or mountain cat products. |
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His angled Asiatic features reveal his full-blooded Inuit roots. |
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From Asiatic to Oriental lilies, from the tiger to the Easter lily, these stately, often perfumed flowers look best planted in abundance and mingled into the garden beds. |
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The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. |
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Asiatic acid, scopolamine and baclofen were administered 30 min before the test. |
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Charles Pocock, managing partner, Meem Gallery and Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society. |
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By 1950 wild boar had once again reached their original northern boundary in many parts of their Asiatic range. |
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The sandy scrublands of central Pakistan are home to Asiatic jackals, striped hyenas, wildcats, and leopards. |
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Historical review of Asiatic clam invasion and biofouling of waters and industries in the Americas. |
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They're followed by Asiatic lilies, which unfurl star-shaped flowers, and by calla hybrids, whose blooms look like fluted cups. |
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Other animals include scimitar-horned oryx, addax, Arabian oryx, dama gazelle, Nubian ibex, wild goats, barbary sheep and Asiatic onager. |
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Cruciferae, an Asiatic plant which curls up in a dry wickerlike ball when dry and opens out when moistened. |
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Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies. |
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Iran lost all its Asiatic lions and the now extinct Caspian tigers by the earlier part of the 20th century. |
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This means they appealed to theory where their knowledge of the American and Asiatic geography was lacking. |
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The basis of this theory is that some Asiatic languages used color words to refer to the cardinal directions. |
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He also identified the Oriental race residing and originating from Arabia, as well as the Near Asiatic race originating from Persia. |
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He identified an Inner Asiatic race residing in Northern Scandinavia and Northern Russia. |
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Arabian species include scimitar-horned oryx, addax, Arabian oryx, dama gazelle, Nubian ibex, wild goat, barbary sheep and Asiatic onager. |
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The convention covers cases of Asiatic cholera, oriental plague and yellow fever. |
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For sumptuous autumnal oranges choose roses, Strelitzia, Physalis, gerbera, calla lilies, Asiatic lilies or Cymbidium orchids. |
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A navy of 10,000 vessels, including Pecheneg allies, landed on the Bithynian coast and devastated the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. |
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It will open Saturday on 29 hectares of land with 59 species of animals, including such rare ones as the okapi, Asiatic lion and Douc langur. |
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The Sphinx of Egypt became Asiatic, and its new form was transplanted to Nineveh on the one side and to Greece on the other. |
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In the past, the range of the Asiatic lion extended from South Asia to the Balkans, possibly up to the Danube. |
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She cruised on Asiatic Station for three years, protecting American citizens and commerce in China, Japan, and the Philippines. |
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Then there are colourful exotics such as pale orange Asiatic and Oriental lilies and a range of kalanchoes, also distributed daily for virtually 52 weeks of the year. |
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We also found traces from trade-restricted animals that are classified as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered, including the Asiatic black bear and Saiga antelope. |
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In Eurasia and Africa, predators include the wolf, leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, Asiatic black bear, crocodile, spotted hyena, and other carnivores. |
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Between 1847 and 1851, about one million people died of Asiatic cholera. |
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Current threats to seabeach amaranth restoration may be competing plants such as the nonnative Asiatic sand sedge and the native American beachgrass. |
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Columbus's arrival in supposedly Asiatic lands in the western Atlantic Ocean in 1492 threatened the unstable relations between Portugal and Spain. |
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