Mirrored and colored surfaces are common adaptations for crypsis in pelagic habitats. |
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Darden also tackles an old debate over whether spirituals were truly black inventions or merely adaptations of European music. |
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As people mix with one another there have been adaptations and innovations. |
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They are too busy negotiating film deals in Hollywood and consulting on theatrical adaptations. |
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The adaptations of gastropods for drilling molluscan prey also increased during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. |
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Director Paul Anderson appears intent on cornering the market when it comes to computer game-based adaptations. |
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There is no shortage of ideas about the essential nature of the human species and the basic adaptations of our kind. |
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They show a number of typical adaptations for aquatic life, such as dorsal orbits and nares and somewhat shortened limbs. |
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Many subsequent adaptations of literature typified the film industry's appetite for soullessly copying previous hits. |
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These two adaptations help the noisy night monkey steer clear of predators in the rainforest. |
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The waboom forms part of South Africas fynbos vegetation and lives up to expectations with its adaptations to fire. |
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Viperid snakes are noted for their stereotyped behavioral adaptations to avoid counterattacks by rodents. |
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Most plant-eaters have developed adaptations to handle difficult-to-digest plant cellulose. |
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No novelist can afford to be precious about the film adaptations of their work. |
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Honeybees have numerous adaptations helpful to them for effective pollination. |
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A number of interesting structural adaptations were developed within the ornithischians. |
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There is an excellent discussion of temperature adaptations and acclimatization with several very good illustrations. |
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The authors are quick to point out the relationship between specific organismal adaptations and the environmental conditions that cause them. |
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With progression of the disease certain adaptations will probably have to be made in order to carry on with day-to-day activities. |
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These crustaceans adaptations for water balance loss, gain and retention are a physiological priority. |
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Lavish, big-screen adaptations of beloved boyhood comic-books have become so old hat. |
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Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw. |
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Those adaptations enable the rodent to rely on the evergreen saltbush plants for sustenance throughout the year. |
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Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors. |
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Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes. |
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Differential expression of seasonal energetic adaptations generates a continuum in the trophic status of endotherms during winter. |
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Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of ships and pirates has been a huge success in the guises of film and television adaptations. |
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It could be argued that the most difficult screenplays to write are adaptations of novels. |
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In the days before television, it was common practice to create radio adaptations of popular films. |
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Unlike other poor adaptations, this film suffers from following the text too closely. |
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Over the years there have been many of adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and countless actors interpreting the role. |
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I have a theory about film adaptations of literary works whose titles include the author's name. |
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Further film adaptations are planned, in light of the success of this first big-screen project. |
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Actor and dramatic writer and adaptor Rodney Ackland, is responsible for at least 30 plays and adaptations. |
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In some ways market forces generate follow-the-leader type adaptations that also work towards like units. |
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Even as young pups, then, Weddell seals have several anatomical adaptations that enable them to avoid overheating in the sunlight. |
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You look at them anatomically, and they're a hodgepodge of little quirks and jury-rigged adaptations that work. |
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He ends by arguing that the topics of interest to aestheticians can be re-evaluated into a number of distinct adaptations. |
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Like most owls, Great Horned Owls have keen hearing and keen vision in low light, both adaptations for hunting at night. |
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Shakespeare Breviates were adaptations of Shakespeare for drawing-room performance. |
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Stream ciphers are essentially practical adaptations of the Vernam Cipher with small keys. |
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During the visit Mrs York showed Mrs Drown the adaptations she had made to her house including handrails, window winders and a walk-in shower. |
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Perhaps that explains why there have been few truly satisfying screen adaptations of his work. |
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Ferns generally lack some of the more typical adaptations of xerophytes, such as a thick hypodermis, sunken stomata, and CAM photosynthesis. |
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Some films are book adaptations, some are remakes of existing films, some are even created whole cloth from original ideas. |
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Xeric oak scrub communities are pyrogenic, so their flora and fauna have developed adaptations to fire. |
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Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula. |
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What adaptations do leatherback turtles have that could make balloons and grocery bags dangerous to them? |
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Physiologically salt tolerance is also complex, with halophytes and less tolerant plants showing a wide range of adaptations. |
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One of the most widespread and varied adaptations is natural camouflage, an animal's ability to hide itself from predator and prey. |
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The company has a reputation for inventive adaptations, ingenious design and musical innovation. |
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Some of the best movie adaptations do not adhere rigorously to the author's text. |
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Instead we consciously fashion our own adaptations, from clothes to cars to weapons. |
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The most important adaptations of the Arctic hare are its keen eyesight, acute hearing, and speed. |
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The costumes are bright and striking adaptations of traditional Japanese dress. |
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The many varieties of guitar that abound in the regional folk musics of Latin America are all adaptations of European models. |
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His family had to move from their home in Cheadle to a larger one in Gatley with a stairlift and other adaptations. |
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On the other hand certain environments will exclude plant species because of the specific adaptations that are required to survive. |
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Troodontids, judging from their cranial anatomy and cursorial adaptations, were likely agile, fast carnivores with acute senses. |
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It requires no special morphological adaptations, although it is most effective in birds with low wing loading. |
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The larvae have suctorial discs and reduced tail fins, which presumably are adaptations for living in swift flowing streams. |
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That includes concessionary fares on public transport and better home adaptations. |
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Nowadays, rampant adaptations of movies and TV series are driving me crazy. |
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If it's panoramic views of social transformation and neat dissections of moral conflict you want, stick to adaptations. |
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So much, then, for the adaptations and additions made both by Matthew and by Luke. |
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That allows him to argue that social evolution selects for individual adaptations better serving such needs. |
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Polymorphic differences occur as selective adaptations to different environments. |
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First, it allows us to determine the probabilities for selective adaptations in both scenarios. |
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Like many adaptations from novels, the plot has too much material to give justice to the main theme. |
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The bourgeois tactic typically involves the first level, where behavioral and morphologic adaptations are often subject to both intrasexual and intersexual selection. |
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These adaptations may be discovered through functional computational analysis using available models of our hominid past and general principles of evolution. |
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In point of fact, no genuinely faithful screen adaptation of Red Harvest has ever been successfully attempted, but many loose adaptations have made their mark. |
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The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays. |
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Film adaptations of video games have a bad track record to date. |
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I know several of my peers who have spent years working on film adaptations of their work, only for them either to come out badly, or else not come out at all. |
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As a comparative anatomist, MacLean viewed animal behaviors as evolutionary adaptations of the brain. |
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Although the theridomyids are considered to have been herbivore browsers, some dental characters allow a more detailed conclusion on dietary adaptations. |
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Movie adaptations of comic books are always a let-down and trailers these days are front-loaded with all the best bits to lure gullible moviegoers to the multiplexes. |
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Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibit exhaustively distinguishes designer pieces from licensed copies, adaptations, and fakes. |
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The group will perform music from the new album, United We Stand, a flavoured sound that ranges in style from rumba to classic adaptations of old mbira rhythms. |
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All these animals had acquired adaptations for quadrupedal climbing similar to those of the modern young hoatzin, a bird native to tropical South America. |
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Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories. |
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They show adaptations for underwater swimming, including flattened tarsi and humeri, and shorter wings and higher wing-loading than most other petrels. |
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Then there have been the adaptations of his own books, Fever Pitch, high fidelity, About a Boy, all suspiciously good. |
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Pygmalion was the first of three Shaw adaptations that he was to direct, and the first film on which the great dramatist himself worked as scriptwriter. |
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The Triassic thecodonts had given rise to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs in the late Triassic, and these now gave rise to an extraordinary range of adaptations to new habitats. |
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The insertion of songs taken from 60s and 70s musical adaptations of the play turns the production into somewhat of a Shakespearian musical-comedy. |
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Occasionally, it is tinkered with but there are few profound adaptations. |
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The Michigan waiver benefits include, besides the staff at home, respite care and environmental adaptations. |
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Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations. |
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No mammal of today has a comparable anatomy of the limbs, but several extinct groups like the Eocene to Pleistocene chalicotheres show similar adaptations. |
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By pinpointing which cognitive abilities all primates share, including prosimian primates, we hope to determine what aspects of intelligence are general primate adaptations. |
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The most striking of adaptations in polar sea animals is to the cold. |
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Three unabridged audiobook adaptations of Magical Cats Mystery series will enrapture ailurophiles and mystery lovers alike. |
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The climax of William Shakespeare's play Richard III provides a focal point for critics in later film adaptations. |
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In recent adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Longnor has featured as Lambton, while Lyme Park and Chatsworth House have stood in for Pemberley. |
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Most prominent are the specific behavioural and physical adaptations that are the outcome of natural selection. |
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These adaptations increase fitness by aiding activities such as finding food, avoiding predators or attracting mates. |
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An area of current investigation in evolutionary developmental biology is the developmental basis of adaptations and exaptations. |
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These changes in the second species then, in turn, cause new adaptations in the first species. |
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The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented. |
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Every century except the 21st has seen major building work or adaptations at the castle. |
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Lewis's The Chronicles Of Narnia, in both the books and the film adaptations. |
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The band appears in the earliest ballads about Robin Hood and remain popular in modern adaptations. |
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In the 21st century, the legend lives on, not only in literature but also in adaptations for theatre, film, television, comics and other media. |
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Other silent versions appeared for the silver screen, and some adaptations even moulded Turpin into a figure styled on Robin Hood. |
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Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts. |
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Its many adaptations have made it one of his most enduring and famous stories. |
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She notes that prior to the 1840s, all stage productions of this play were adaptations unfaithful to the original text. |
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His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. |
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From the 19th century, her family members published conclusions to her incomplete novels, and by 2000 there were over 100 printed adaptations. |
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There have also been several adaptations of her books for stage, screen and television. |
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Pratchett was also an avid video game player, and collaborated in the creation of a number of game adaptations of his books. |
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Pratchett worked with Youth Music Theatre UK to bring adaptations of both Mort and Soul Music to the stage. |
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The song is in the public domain, and has many adaptations around the world. |
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In 1727 it was sung at the end of the coronation of queen Caroline, with adaptations by Handel to make its words more appropriate for a queen. |
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The following year he appeared in adaptations of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Harold Pinter's The Collection. |
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The succeeding three motion picture adaptations followed suit in financial success, while garnering positive reviews from fans and critics. |
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He played Young Rumpole, and went on to play the part in nine more adaptations of Mortimer's works. |
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These works range from fairly faithful adaptations to those that use the story as a basis for new works. |
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Characteristic for the films of the 1960s were genre films including Edgar Wallace and Karl May adaptations. |
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The differences between families of odontocetes include size, feeding adaptations and distribution. |
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Two, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, were adaptations of novels by Ian Fleming. |
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Due to the success of his comics, a number of filmmakers have expressed a desire to make film adaptations over the years. |
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Other adaptations have seen the character taken in radically different directions or placed in different times or even universes. |
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Sullivan's operas have often been adapted, first in the 19th century as dance pieces and in foreign adaptations of the operas themselves. |
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Mesolithic adaptations such as sedentism, population size and use of plant foods are cited as evidence of the transition to agriculture. |
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New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts. |
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Distinct adaptations observed in bryophytes have allowed plants to colonize Earth's terrestrial environments. |
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The vision of the Manx shearwater has a number of adaptations to its way of life. |
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Since it visits its breeding colonies at night, a shearwater has adaptations for nocturnal vision too. |
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It has anatomical adaptations for filter feeding, such as a greatly enlarged mouth and highly developed gill rakers. |
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They sometimes seek prey in the midwater, away from the bottom, and show fewer extreme adaptations than other families. |
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The storage of energy through the accumulation of fat and the control of sleep in nocturnal migrants require special physiological adaptations. |
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Seabirds have made numerous adaptations to living on and feeding in the sea. |
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The circulatory system has a number of specific adaptations for the aquatic environment. |
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The same adaptations that conserve heat while in water tend to inhibit heat loss when out of water. |
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The special adaptations of reptiles enabled them to flourish in the drier climate of the Permian and they grew to dominate the vertebrates. |
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Audio adaptations of The Railway Series have been recorded at various times under the title The Railway Stories. |
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The main difference between each family of mysticete is in their feeding adaptations and subsequent behaviour. |
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Processes that were untenable would have resulted in a new balance brought about by changes and adaptations. |
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The particular skills and methods employed in making longships are still used worldwide, often with modern adaptations. |
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The adaptations in a particular bat species can directly influence what kinds of prey are available to it. |
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It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. |
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It has several adaptations to dry areas, including a high salt tolerance and an ability to survive without water by ingesting berries. |
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Lizards have a variety of antipredator adaptations, including running and climbing, venom, camouflage, tail autotomy, and reflex bleeding. |
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Those features can also be observed in algae and cyanobacteria, suggesting that these are adaptations to the conditions prevailing in Antarctica. |
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Xenarthrans are a curious group of mammals that developed morphological adaptations for specialized diets very early in their history. |
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Several famous artistic adaptations of the Ys legend appeared in the late 19th and early 20th century. |
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An examination of human and Neanderthal genomes and adaptations regarding pathogens or parasites may shed light on this issue. |
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Reindeer have developed adaptations for optimal metabolic efficiency during warm months as well as for during cold months. |
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Common ostriches have developed a comprehensive set of behavioural adaptations for thermoregulation, such as altering their feathers. |
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Camels have a series of physiological adaptations that allow them to withstand long periods of time without any external source of water. |
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A small group of regulatory genes in the giraffe appear to be responsible for the animal's stature and associated circulatory adaptations. |
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The circulatory system of the giraffe has several adaptations for its great height. |
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Psammophilous plants tend to have adaptations to resist damage from wind-blown sand. |
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Prominent features of the Australian flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which include scleromorphy and serotiny. |
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With the increasingly global environment, a successful leader must be able to make these adaptations and have some insight into other cultures. |
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Due to the large amount of energy and resources allocated to carnivorous adaptations. |
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Only under such extreme conditions is carnivory favored to an extent that makes the adaptations advantageous. |
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The novel has inspired a number of other works that are not direct adaptations. |
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His films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. |
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Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Fisher King are more recent and successful adaptations. |
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It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever. |
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In various ways these ecological adaptations can lead to assortative mating and possible speciation. |
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Hydraulic burrowing in the bivalve Mya arenaria Linnaeus and associated ligamental adaptations. |
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He has also written the screenplays for the recent adaptations of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and the BBC drama Toast. |
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Physiologic and anatomic adaptations to microgravity exposure are considered one of the greatest barriers for human space exploration. |
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Research interests Neuromuscular adaptations to strength training, training periodization and therapeutical effects on muscle diseases. |
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Manufacturers of motor caravans have offered various adaptations in the past but they have tended to be costly. |
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Also, both the homunculus and golem appear to be extreme, mystical adaptations of medieval alchemy. |
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It is a polytypic species with a wide variety of adaptations to different environments. |
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Heat acclimatization elicits adaptations that regulate dehydration and hypovolaemia. |
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What physiological adaptations allow them to live in such hypoxic conditions, and what happens when they are transported to sea-level conditions? |
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Earth life, with its unique biochemical toolset, could feasibly survive on a Mars-like planet with a few novel adaptations. |
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Complex adaptations tend to evolve gradually, and the trend toward encephalization is no exception. |
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One of these adaptations is their documented tolerance to trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease due to infection with Trypanosoma sp. |
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The producers also considered how to make the dog believable because, according to Gatiss, audiences always find the dog disappointing in the adaptations. |
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Continuing interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes. |
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For carnivory, the trait could only evolve if the increase in nutrients from prey capture exceeded the cost of investment in carnivorous adaptations. |
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These episodes appear in many later adaptations of Geoffrey's account. |
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Furthermore, future renditions and adaptations of the story include an evil laboratory assistant Igor or Ygor, who does not actually exist within the original narrative. |
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The result was a book of adaptations of classical Sanskrit short poems called kavya, ten of which appear here and in In Light of India, a prose memoir. |
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At this same time, the Lowell City Development Authority created a Comprehensive Master Plan which included recommendations for zoning adaptations within the city. |
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These peoples were diverse in their adaptations to the region. |
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Some Arctic species like Gynaephora groenlandica have special basking and aggregation behaviours apart from physiological adaptations to remain in a dormant state. |
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Although xerophytes normally have a number of adaptations to hydric stress, mesophytes can also adapt in order to survive in environments where seasonal deficits occur. |
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The authors argue that many of the basic human adaptations evolved in the ancient forest and woodland ecosystems of late Miocene and early Pliocene Africa. |
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Unfortunately, the defensive adaptations of the large xenarthrans would have offered little protection against humans armed with spears and other projectiles. |
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Consequentially, this shaped Pangaea and animal adaptations. |
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Lizards make use of a variety of antipredator adaptations, including venom, camouflage, reflex bleeding, and the ability to sacrifice and regrow their tails. |
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Owls have at least two adaptations that aid them in achieving stealth. |
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These adaptations are probably used to decrease the energy costs. |
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The Eocene bats Icaronycteris and Palaeochiropteryx had cranial adaptations suggesting an ability to detect ultrasound, implying they used echolocation. |
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The latter clade has been separated from all other red fox populations since the last glacial maximum, and may possess unique ecological or physiological adaptations. |
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However, most of these adaptations are actually present in Plateosaurus. |
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Sound travels differently through water, and therefore marine mammals have developed adaptations to ensure effective communication, prey capture, and predator detection. |
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Despite their marine adaptations, most sea snakes prefer shallow waters nearby land, around islands, especially waters that are somewhat sheltered, as well as near estuaries. |
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Reptiles, however, prospered due to specific key adaptations. |
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The main adaptations of the pinniped circulatory system for diving are the enlargement and increased complexity of veins to increase their capacity. |
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The dolphin ear has specific adaptations to the marine environment. |
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Although the Manx shearwater has adaptations for night vision, the effect is small, and it is likely that these birds also use smell and hearing to locate their nests. |
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Translating the user interface is usually part of the software localization process, which also includes adaptations such as units and date conversion. |
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He also announced that he would not allow his name to be used in any future film adaptations of works he does not own, nor would he accept any money from such adaptations. |
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The Assemblies Jehovah Shammah movement, founded by the evangelist Bakht Singh, are organized largely on Brethren principles with adaptations to Indian culture. |
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the Brethren movement diversified further still, especially through cultural adaptations in Third World countries. |
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There is an abundance of ethnic groups throughout Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of Asia, which can be Arctic, subarctic, temperate, subtropical or tropical. |
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The output of legislation was high for a devolved Parliament, though some of the Acts were adaptations of recently passed acts by the United Kingdom parliament. |
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The Soviet adaptations make extensive use of Milne's original text, and often bring out aspects of Milne's characters' personalities not used in the Disney adaptations. |
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Unlike the Disney adaptations, the animators did not base their depictions of the characters on Shepard's illustrations, creating a different look. |
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In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian. |
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The book has inspired numerous film and television adaptations which have multiplied as the original work is now in the public domain in all jurisdictions. |
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There have been a number of film adaptations of the Lloyd Webber musicals. |
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The Sky adaptations notably feature the author's presence in cameo roles. |
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North American brown ales trace their heritage to American home brewing adaptations of certain northern English beers, and the English influence on American Colonial Ales. |
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Here, the evolution of one species causes adaptations in a second species. |
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When the interaction is between pairs of species, such as a pathogen and a host, or a predator and its prey, these species can develop matched sets of adaptations. |
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The new lexical items are replicas, models in the donor language and they can be manifested in phonetic and semantic adaptations, including caiques or translation loans. |
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Creatures adapted to complex landscapes might move on to specialise in a range of niches, requiring different sorts of locomotory and behavioural adaptations. |
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Featuring classics such as Hard Knock Life, Tomorrow and Easy Street, the Fitzalan production also includes some exciting new numbers not seen in previous adaptations. |
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Eventually it became clear that the poems were not direct translations from the Gaelic, but flowery adaptations made to suit the aesthetic expectations of his audience. |
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Many genes that contribute to Galdieria's adaptations were not inherited from its ancestor red algae, but were acquired from bacteria or archaebacteria. |
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Many of these experiments probed adaptations of the so-called antigravity muscles, which support the body and maintain posture in Earth's gravity. |
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