| The plumage of the house sparrow is mostly different shades of grey and brown. | 
 
 
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| There has been a recent increase in interactions between brown bears and polar bears, theorized to be caused by climate change. | 
 
 
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| However, this cannot be ruled out as an extinct population of brown bear, based on the inconclusiveness of the only known fossil. | 
 
 
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| Interactions with these large cats were probably not highly disparate from those that continue today between brown bears and the Siberian tiger. | 
 
 
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| Unlike most of these species, the brown bear was able to survive the Quaternary extinction event that concluded the ice age. | 
 
 
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| Under many circumstances, extensive human development may cause brown bears to alter their home ranges. | 
 
 
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| In different parts of their distribution, brown bears sometimes kill and eat domesticated animals. | 
 
 
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| Though the problem is most significant with regard to grizzlies, these issues affect the other types of brown bears as well. | 
 
 
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| Native American tribes sympatric with brown bears often view them with a mixture of awe and fear. | 
 
 
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| North American brown bears have at times been so feared by the natives, that they were rarely hunted, especially alone. | 
 
 
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| In Kwakiutl mythology, black and brown bears became enemies when Grizzly Bear Woman killed Black Bear Woman for being lazy. | 
 
 
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| Aggressive behavior in brown bears is favored by numerous selection variables. | 
 
 
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| Increased aggressiveness also assists female brown bears in better ensuring the survival of their young to reproductive age. | 
 
 
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| Sows with cubs account for many attacks on humans by brown bears in North America. | 
 
 
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| In the majority of attacks resulting in injury, brown bears precede the attack with a growl or huffing sound. | 
 
 
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| Violent encounters with brown bears usually last only a few minutes, though they can be prolonged if the victims fight back. | 
 
 
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| In this context, no differentiation between black and brown bears is needed. | 
 
 
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| With rare exceptions, the brown rat lives wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas. | 
 
 
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| The fur is coarse and usually brown or dark grey, while the underparts are lighter grey or brown. | 
 
 
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| The brown rat is a rather large true murid and can weigh twice as much as a black rat and many times more than a house mouse. | 
 
 
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| The brown rat is a true omnivore and will consume almost anything, but cereals form a substantial part of its diet. | 
 
 
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| The brown rat can breed throughout the year if conditions are suitable, with a female producing up to five litters a year. | 
 
 
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| As it spread from Asia, the brown rat generally displaced the black rat in areas where humans lived. | 
 
 
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| In addition, brown rats eat a wider variety of foods, and are more resistant to weather extremes. | 
 
 
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| In the absence of humans, brown rats prefer damp environments, such as river banks. | 
 
 
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| The drifting wreck, carrying brown rats, drifted northwards until it reached the village of Hvalba. | 
 
 
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| Today the brown rat is found on seven of the 18 Faroese islands, and is common in and around human habitations as well as in the wild. | 
 
 
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| However, brown rats may suffer from plague, as can many nonrodent species, including dogs, cats, and humans. | 
 
 
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| The Myomorpha, such as the brown rat, have enlarged temporalis muscles, making them able to chew powerfully with their molars. | 
 
 
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| The animal appears brownish with most of its body covered by up to 6,000 brown and white spines. | 
 
 
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| The European badger is a powerfully built black, white, brown and grey animal with a small head, a stocky body, small black eyes and short tail. | 
 
 
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| Different species of brocket deer vary from gray to reddish brown in coat colour. | 
 
 
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| Several species such as the chital, the fallow deer and the sika deer feature white spots on a brown coat. | 
 
 
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| The main predator of sika deer include tiger and wolves, leopard, brown bear. | 
 
 
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| The coat is an overall golden brown color, and may be interspersed with black hairs, while the undersides are white. | 
 
 
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| The strongly tapered face is reddish brown or gray in color, and the chin and upper throat are cream colored. | 
 
 
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| Young are born dark brown with white stripes and spots along their upper torso. | 
 
 
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| Its winter fur is long and bushy and predominantly a mottled gray in color, although nearly pure white, red, and brown to black also occur. | 
 
 
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| Wolves eat the brown bears they kill, while brown bears seem to only eat young wolves. | 
 
 
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| Wolf interactions with American black bears are much rarer than with brown bears, because of differences in habitat preferences. | 
 
 
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| Unlike brown bears, black bears frequently lose against wolves in disputes over kills. | 
 
 
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| Medium to large seabirds with mainly grey or brown plumage, sharp claws and a hooked tip to the bill. | 
 
 
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| Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, and males have brighter black, white, and brown markings. | 
 
 
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| The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. | 
 
 
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| The male has a dark grey crown from the top of its bill to its back, and chestnut brown flanking its crown on the sides of its head. | 
 
 
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| The upper back and mantle are a warm brown, with broad black streaks, while the lower back, rump and uppertail coverts are greyish brown. | 
 
 
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| Its upperparts and head are brown with darker streaks around the mantle and a distinct pale supercilium. | 
 
 
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| The eggs are white, bluish white, or greenish white, spotted with brown or grey. | 
 
 
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| The eggs have the shape of hen's eggs and are pale yellow, sparsely spotted with brown. | 
 
 
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| Juveniles of both sexes are gold with dark brown bellies and sides with a dark stripe along the spine. | 
 
 
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| The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides. | 
 
 
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| Females and nonbreeding males are pale brown or olive green, often with two darker stripes on the back. | 
 
 
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| The scales of the staminate aments when mature are broadly ovate, rounded, yellow or orange color below the middle, dark chestnut brown at apex. | 
 
 
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| The bark is thin, scaly brown, coming off in small flakes aligned with the stem. | 
 
 
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| Sliced apples turn brown with exposure to air due to the conversion of natural phenolic substances into melanin upon exposure to oxygen. | 
 
 
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| Different cultivars vary in their propensity to brown after slicing and the genetically engineered Arctic Apples do not brown. | 
 
 
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| These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed. | 
 
 
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| The flowers may turn brown but still remain on the plants over winter, and this can lead to interesting decorative effects. | 
 
 
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| Dry lichens with a cyanobacterium as the photosynthetic partner tend to be dark grey, brown, or black. | 
 
 
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| They are generally brown or dark green in color and consist of a holdfast, a stipe, and a frond. | 
 
 
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| To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats. | 
 
 
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| His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled. | 
 
 
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| Colouring is brown or green, with spots on the dorsal side, shading to silver ventrally. | 
 
 
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| Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae. | 
 
 
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| It is a long, lean fish with a large head, light brown above and white or silvery below. | 
 
 
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| Human skin color can range from darkest brown to lightest peach, or even nearly white or colorless in cases of albinism. | 
 
 
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| Human hair ranges in color from white to red to blond to brown to black, which is most frequent. | 
 
 
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| Skin color varies with latitude and certain people are tall or have brown hair. | 
 
 
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| A winter trapping survey on St Agnes and Gugh indicated that those islands had a population of 3,300 brown rats. | 
 
 
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| Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft brown combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. | 
 
 
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| The Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria, Australia, contains estimated reserves of some 65 billion tonnes of brown coal. | 
 
 
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| The coal seams are up to 100 metres thick, with multiple coal seams often giving virtually continuous brown coal thickness of up to 230 metres. | 
 
 
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| The passing of bilirubin via bile through the intestinal tract gives mammalian feces a distinctive brown coloration. | 
 
 
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| The Central Adriatic is especially abundant in endemic plant species, with 535 identified species of green, brown and red algae. | 
 
 
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| Water flowing out of bogs has a characteristic brown colour, which comes from dissolved peat tannins. | 
 
 
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| In the book he claimed that the first race on Earth had been a brown and reddish colour. | 
 
 
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| The painting uses polylineal writing to create a brown texture over the lower third of the canvas. | 
 
 
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| Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat. | 
 
 
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| These substances are usually found in molecular clouds, although they may also appear in low temperature stars, brown dwarfs and planets. | 
 
 
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| It is distinguished from other parts of the Atlantic Ocean by its characteristic brown Sargassum seaweed and often calm blue water. | 
 
 
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| Some of them are plain but others have traces of a thin coat of stucco painted in yellow, red, back, brown, green, and pink. | 
 
 
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| The llama and alpaca are only known in the domestic state, and are variable in size and of many colors, being often white, brown, or piebald. | 
 
 
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| As a result, much of the basin floor is made of tholeiitic basalts giving its brown color. | 
 
 
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| Fossils show that between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear. | 
 
 
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| The mtDNA of extinct Irish brown bears is particularly close to polar bears. | 
 
 
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| However, recent reanalysis of the fossil suggests that it was actually a type of brown bear. | 
 
 
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| The only other bear of a similar size to the polar bear is the Kodiak bear, which is a subspecies of brown bear. | 
 
 
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| Compared with its closest relative, the brown bear, the polar bear has a more elongated body build and a longer skull and nose. | 
 
 
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| The polar bear's claws are short and stocky compared to those of the brown bear, perhaps to serve the former's need to grip heavy prey and ice. | 
 
 
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| The cheek teeth are smaller and more jagged than in the brown bear, and the canines are larger and sharper. | 
 
 
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| Many attacks by brown bears are the result of surprising the animal, which is not the case with the polar bear. | 
 
 
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| Whereas brown bears often maul a person and then leave, polar bear attacks are more likely to be predatory and are almost always fatal. | 
 
 
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| Like the brown bear, most ungulate prey of polar bears is likely to be young, sickly or injured specimens rather than healthy adults. | 
 
 
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| He is described as having delicate feature, large brown eyes, a thin high nose, fair hair and beard, and a soft gentle expression. | 
 
 
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| The peninsula is also home to the eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous snakes. | 
 
 
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| Wild sheep are largely variations of brown hues, and variation within species is extremely limited. | 
 
 
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| Colors of domestic sheep range from pure white to dark chocolate brown, and even spotted or piebald. | 
 
 
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| Additional sugar is recovered by blending the remaining syrup with the washings from affination and again crystallizing to produce brown sugar. | 
 
 
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| Naturally colored cotton can come in red, green, and several shades of brown. | 
 
 
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| Cassava brown streak virus disease has been identified as a major threat to cultivation worldwide. | 
 
 
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| The edible tuberous root is long and tapered, with a smooth skin whose color ranges between yellow, orange, red, brown, purple, and beige. | 
 
 
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| Sweet potato casserole is a side dish of mashed sweet potatoes in a casserole dish, topped with a brown sugar and pecan topping. | 
 
 
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| Ceylon cinnamon, using only the thin inner bark, has a lighter brown colour, a finer, less dense and more crumbly texture. | 
 
 
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| The brown tree snake is native to northern and eastern coasts of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Guam and the Solomon Islands. | 
 
 
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| Hard wheat varieties were insufficiently ground and sifted by mills, leaving a flour that was coarse and brown. | 
 
 
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| Baby brown snakes are dark grey or black, and have broad bands on the back of their heads and numerous reddy-brown spots on their bellies. | 
 
 
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| The sugar changes from white to dark brown and then to black as carbon is formed. | 
 
 
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| The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents. | 
 
 
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| It contains brown trout and schelly, a species of whitefish found in only four bodies of water in the Lake District. | 
 
 
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| It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. | 
 
 
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| The upperparts are a deep, glossy brown, while the breast is white and sometimes streaked with brown, and the underparts are pure white. | 
 
 
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| The irises of the eyes are golden to brown, and the transparent nictitating membrane is pale blue. | 
 
 
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| The white to rusty underparts are barred with thin clean bands of dark brown or black. | 
 
 
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| Baryte used for drilling petroleum wells can be black, blue, brown or gray depending on the ore body. | 
 
 
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| After the last Ice Age the cave was used by hibernating brown bear and reindeer. | 
 
 
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| Rodents are also numerous across Britain and England, particularly the brown rat which is by far the most abundant urban animal after humans. | 
 
 
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| England's climate is very suitable for lagomorphs and the country has rabbits and brown hares which were introduced in Roman times. | 
 
 
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| Many of the bigger species, such as the grey wolf and the brown bear, were hunted to extinction many centuries ago. | 
 
 
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| Rodents are also numerous across Britain, particularly the brown rat which is by far the most abundant urban animal after humans. | 
 
 
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| They are not bright or flashy in appearance, and their color can vary from greenish to whitish, brown, purple, black, or hyaline. | 
 
 
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| Beyond that, I like the standard short-grain brown rice, which is the one to use for risottolike dishes, and which can be fairly creamy. | 
 
 
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| The colour of the feet is usually grey, but it is in some roseous, brown, or black. | 
 
 
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| She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair. | 
 
 
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| She wet her hands in a pan of brown water, then rubbed her palms together, a slurpy sound. | 
 
 
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| A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth. | 
 
 
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| While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker is the tiger snake. | 
 
 
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| The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky. | 
 
 
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| There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork. | 
 
 
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| His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck. | 
 
 
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| Out on the boating lake were two bufflehead ducks, a male with a bonnetlike white patch on his dark head, and his chocolate brown female. | 
 
 
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| Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill. | 
 
 
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| The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities. | 
 
 
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| Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers. | 
 
 
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| It's only a matter of time before marketers collide in the scrabble for the pink grey brown pound. | 
 
 
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| As an unabashed health nut, she always asked for brown rice to go with her vegetarian entrees. | 
 
 
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| Slowly cooking the onions will cause caramelization which will bring out the sweetness and give them a brown color. | 
 
 
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| Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color. | 
 
 
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| Cauliflowery excrescences are also accompanied by most copious serous discharges of a brown color. | 
 
 
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| It was a sweet, choirboyish face, despite the full brown mustache, much younger looking than thirty. | 
 
 
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| The cipollinis will brown quickly, so don't walk away while they're cooking. | 
 
 
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| Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear. | 
 
 
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| Then he unlaced his brown oxfords, folded up his khakied legs, adjusted his button-down collar, and proceeded to meditate for 20 minutes. | 
 
 
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| He was a long king brown, sliding through the grass as silky as 50 SAE motor oil as it pours from the can. | 
 
 
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| A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch. | 
 
 
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| Some are brown and white, like pointer dogs, others are spotted like Danish dogs, and some with curled hair. | 
 
 
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| Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside. | 
 
 
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| America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird. | 
 
 
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| And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun. | 
 
 
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| Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up. | 
 
 
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| The description corresponding to the foretype, except for the entirely dark yellow spines, which are sometimes brown at the base. | 
 
 
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| I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling, as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village. | 
 
 
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| The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work. | 
 
 
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| He's still Gothing up, dying his brown hair into black spikes, and he had on more eyeliner than I did. | 
 
 
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| The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig. | 
 
 
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| I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown. | 
 
 
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| In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa. | 
 
 
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| He plucked a hash brown from her chest and popped it in her mouth before slurping several more into his mouth. | 
 
 
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| A Florida middle school civics teacher who was arrested Saturday for misdemeanor battery denied she threw a hash brown at a McDonalds employee. | 
 
 
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| Britannia is symbolised as a young woman with brown or golden hair, wearing a Corinthian helmet and white robes. | 
 
 
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| The larger Welsh mammals died out during the Norman period, including the brown bear, wolf and the wildcat. | 
 
 
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| However, some species, such as the brown rat, red fox, and introduced grey squirrel, are well adapted to urban areas. | 
 
 
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| Groupers and snappers are overfished and northern brown shrimp and American cupped oyster are considered fully fished approaching overfished. | 
 
 
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| The mostly asexually reproducing brown alga Fucus radicans seems to have evolved in the basin. | 
 
 
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| The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick. | 
 
 
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| Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother. | 
 
 
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| Patricians wore red and orange sandals, senators had brown footwear, consuls had white shoes, and soldiers wore heavy boots. | 
 
 
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| The largest predator on land is the polar bear, while the brown bear is the largest predator on the Norwegian mainland. | 
 
 
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| Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been. | 
 
 
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| Freshwater fish of the Thames and its tributaries include brown trout, chub, dace, roach, barbel, perch, pike, bleak and flounder. | 
 
 
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| Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black. | 
 
 
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| They initially had chocolate brown or Indian red frames but this was changed in the twentieth century to black. | 
 
 
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| In the early years of the GWR its wagons were painted brown, but this changed to red before the end of the broad gauge. | 
 
 
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| Lawn cut with a cylinder mower is less likely to result in yellow, white or brown discolouration as a result of leaf shredding. | 
 
 
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| It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish. | 
 
 
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| The very popular potato scallop or potato cake consists of slices of potato dipped in fish batter and deep fried until golden brown. | 
 
 
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| Sauteed field mushrooms are also sometimes included, as well as baked beans, hash browns, liver, and brown soda bread. | 
 
 
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| Fried potato farl, boxty or toast is sometimes served as an alternative to brown soda bread. | 
 
 
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| Flavourings such as brown sugar or maple syrup are used for some bacon products. | 
 
 
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| Additional seasonings are sometimes used, such as additional brown sugar or mustard to make the sauce more tangy. | 
 
 
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| The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs. | 
 
 
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| Their appearance ranges from cloudy with sediment to completely clear, and their colour ranges from almost clear to amber to brown. | 
 
 
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| The name porter was first used in 1721 to describe a dark brown beer that had been made with roasted malts. | 
 
 
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| Today there are brown ales made in several regions, most notably England, Belgium and America. | 
 
 
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| These beers died out around 1800 as brewers moved away from using brown malt as a base. | 
 
 
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| The brown ales of this period were considerably stronger than most modern English versions. | 
 
 
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| After World War II, stronger brown ales, with the exception of a handful of examples from the northeast of England, mostly died out. | 
 
 
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| Pen in black, with grey, brown, black, and red wash on paper mounted on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London. | 
 
 
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| Some booksellers sold the novel in brown paper bags, and the Bishop of Wakefield, Walsham How, is reputed to have burnt his copy. | 
 
 
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| Vinegar and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. | 
 
 
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| Bowls were once only available coloured black or brown but they are now available in a variety of colours. | 
 
 
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| Generally all hunting whips are brown, except those of Hunt Servants, whose whips are white. | 
 
 
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| I have to admit, he's a handsome merlad with his beautiful brown eyes, shiny black hair, and dark brown skin, but I can't have a boyfriend. | 
 
 
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| The thistle had previously been worn to represent Scotland in the 1871 rugby international, but on brown shirts. | 
 
 
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| Alcoholic drinks served in pubs include wines and English beers such as bitter, mild, stout, and brown ale. | 
 
 
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| The rich freshwater streams contain brown trout, Atlantic salmon and water shrew. | 
 
 
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| That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference. | 
 
 
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| Introduced species include reindeer, hares, rabbits, Patagonian foxes, brown rats and cats. | 
 
 
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| There are no native land mammals, though reindeer, brown rats and mice were introduced to South Georgia through the activities of man. | 
 
 
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| Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek. | 
 
 
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| I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair. | 
 
 
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| Decaying plant matter, for instance, may be responsible for a yellow or brown color, while algae may cause greenish water. | 
 
 
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| Citrine is a variety of quartz whose color ranges from a pale yellow to brown due to ferric impurities. | 
 
 
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| The plumage of the adults is white with dark wing tips, with colours that range from brown to black. | 
 
 
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| From the fifth week they are covered in dark brown feathers flecked with white. | 
 
 
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| The four toes of their feet are joined by a membrane that can vary from dark grey to dark brown. | 
 
 
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| In summer, for all populations of mountain hares, the coat is various shades of brown. | 
 
 
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| In the species' southern range, the coat remains brown, but is denser and sometimes paler than in summer. | 
 
 
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| The body feathers are dark grey to dark brown, while the breast feathers are dark metallic green. | 
 
 
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| The eggs are about the same size and form as chicken eggs, but are more speckled with brown spots. | 
 
 
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| The wildcat's summer coat has a fairly light, pure background colour, with an admixture of ochre or brown. | 
 
 
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| In some specimens, the forehead is covered in dense clusters of brown spots. | 
 
 
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| A narrow, dark brown stripe extends from the corner of the eye to the base of the ear. | 
 
 
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| In Western Europe, the wildcat feeds on hamsters, brown rats, dormice, water voles, voles, and wood mice. | 
 
 
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| In some summers, wildcats are infested with fleas of the Ceratophyllus genus, which they likely contract from brown rats. | 
 
 
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| Their fur is usually light to dark brown and grows longer and silkier during the winter months. | 
 
 
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| The winter coat consists of long, coarse bristles underlaid with short brown downy fur. | 
 
 
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| These other pigments include carotenoids that are yellow, brown, and orange. | 
 
 
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| Walnut husk pigments are used as a brown dye for fabric as once applied in classical Rome and medieval Europe for dyeing hair. | 
 
 
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| The Roman fort that replaced it was now the dim brown mark of an old archeological site on low hills off to the left. | 
 
 
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| Light European males can be distinguished from kestrels by their mainly brown wings. | 
 
 
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| It is of a generally dark brown colour, with a pale underbelly and a dark mask across the face. | 
 
 
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| The limbs are pure black or black with brown tints, while the tail is black or blackish brown, completely lacking light underfur. | 
 
 
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| In the British Isles, it commonly kills brown rats and European rabbits, and is capable of killing larger prey, such as geese and hares. | 
 
 
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| The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous. | 
 
 
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| The Holy Family with St John the Baptist, brush and brown wash on panel by Michelangelo. | 
 
 
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| Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble. | 
 
 
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| The bulbs develop from the inside, pushing the older layers outwards which become brown and dry, forming an outer shell, the tunic or skin. | 
 
 
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| Through the enormous dust cloud that the army raised the trees of the valley appeared as brown smudges against an ochreish sky. | 
 
 
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| Peat often stains the water yellow or brown due to the leaching of tannins. | 
 
 
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| Common colors include black and dull shades of green, olive, brown, purple, blue, and red. | 
 
 
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| The animals have cryptic colouration, being a sandy brown colour, which can be changed to match the environment. | 
 
 
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| The brown shrimp enjoys great popularity in Belgium and its neighbouring countries. | 
 
 
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| Freshly cooked, unpeeled brown shrimp are often served as a snack accompanying beer, typically a sour ale or Flemish red such as Rodenbach. | 
 
 
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| In Lancashire, England, the brown shrimp is mixed with butter to make potted shrimps, a dish traditionally eaten with bread. | 
 
 
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| Freshly processed jellyfish has a white, creamy color and turns yellow or brown during prolonged storage. | 
 
 
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| The word for it in both Greek and Latin, sepia, now refers to a brown pigment in English. | 
 
 
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| Carapaces of juveniles turn dark brown to olive, while those of mature adults are either entirely brown, spotted or marbled with variegated rays. | 
 
 
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| The coral reefs provide red, brown, and green algae for their diet and gives protection from predators and rough storms within the ocean. | 
 
 
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| The female is a brown bird with pale cheeks, very similar to female black scoter. | 
 
 
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| Other terrestrial predators include cougars, brown hyenas and various species of canids, which mostly target the young. | 
 
 
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| Species commonly entangled include California sea lions, Hawaiian monk seals, northern fur seals and brown fur seals. | 
 
 
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| The back tends to be a greenish to sandy brown, and shows extensive mottling, especially towards the lighter sides and white belly. | 
 
 
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| Dark brown colouration of the back and sides is not uncommon, especially for individuals that have resided in rocky inshore regions. | 
 
 
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| European plaice are characterised by their smooth brown skin, with distinctive red spots and bony ridge behind the eyes. | 
 
 
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| They are brown or reddish, and are generally smaller than European plaice, with a rougher skin and larger scales. | 
 
 
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| Tail brown tipped broadly with white, outermost feathers white with brown outerweb. | 
 
 
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| The eggs of gulls are usually dark tan to brown or dark olive with dark splotches and scrawl markings, and are well camouflaged. | 
 
 
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| The eggs of most gulls and terns are brown with dark splotches, so they are difficult for predators to spot on the beach. | 
 
 
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| An exception is the brown noddy, which sometimes harbours protozoa of that genus. | 
 
 
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| Diatoms and brown algae are examples of algae with secondary chloroplasts derived from an endosymbiotic red alga. | 
 
 
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| Sargassum muticum, commonly known as Japanese wireweed, is a large brown seaweed of the genus Sargassum. | 
 
 
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| They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. | 
 
 
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| Cannibalism of chicks of their own species is known from the Australian, brown and Peruvian pelicans. | 
 
 
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| Alcatraz Island was given its name by the Spanish because of the number of large numbers of brown pelicans nesting present. | 
 
 
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| The water becomes cloudy, typically coloured a shade of green, yellow, brown, or red. | 
 
 
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| Iridescent swimming crab, dusky flounder, inshore lizardfish, spot, brown shrimp, longspine swimming crabs, and other bycatch made up the rest. | 
 
 
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| Yellow amber is a hard fossil resin from evergreen trees, and despite the name it can be translucent, yellow, orange, or brown colored. | 
 
 
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| The second soul was colored a light brown and was seen in the form of the meadowlark. | 
 
 
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| Hirado ware porcelain censers in the form of tiger and figurine with fan, brown and blue glazes. | 
 
 
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| The brown bear is recognized as a national and state animal in several European countries. | 
 
 
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| It is speculated that brown bears were unable to migrate south until the extinction of the much larger Arctodus simus. | 
 
 
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| Genetic testing is now perhaps the most important way to scientifically define brown bear relationships and names. | 
 
 
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| However, recent DNA analysis has identified as few as five main clades which contain all extant brown bears. | 
 
 
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| As well as the exact number of overall brown bear subspecies, its precise relationship to the polar bear also remains in debate. | 
 
 
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| Under some definitions, the brown bear can be construed as the paraspecies for the polar bear. | 
 
 
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| The brown bear population in the Pyrenees stems mostly from bears reintroduced from Slovenia, with one or two remaining original males. | 
 
 
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| Grizzlies, for example, tend to have flatter profiles than European and coastal American brown bears. | 
 
 
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| These mass variations represent only two widespread subspecies, the grizzly bear in North America, and the Eurasian brown bear in Europe. | 
 
 
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| As many as 20,000 brown bears range throughout the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia, and in the majority of Alberta. | 
 
 
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| Although many people hold the belief some brown bears may be present in Mexico they are almost certainly extinct. | 
 
 
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| In eastern and northern Europe, the range of brown bear currently extends more broadly. | 
 
 
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| The Carpathian brown bear population of Romania is the largest in Europe outside of Russia. | 
 
 
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| The entire alpine population of brown bears includes about 50 individuals, most of them living in the Adamello Brento nature park in Italy. | 
 
 
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| Alpine meadows are the typical habitat in the Himalayan and Tibetan populations of brown bear. | 
 
 
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| Eastern Russian forests hold arguably the largest number of brown bears in the world outside of possibly Alaska and northwestern Canada. | 
 
 
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| The brown bears of Hokkaido are also largely forest dwelling, but dwell in mixed forests dominated by broadleaf trees such as beech. | 
 
 
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| The Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears. | 
 
 
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| Being serially monogamous, brown bears remain with the same mate from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. | 
 
 
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| The lifespan of brown bears of both sexes within minimally hunted populations is estimated at an average of 25 years. | 
 
 
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| Even in populations living in protected areas, humans are still the leading cause of mortality for brown bears. | 
 
 
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| The largest amount of legalized brown bear hunting occurs in Canada, Finland, Russia, Slovakia and Alaska. | 
 
 
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| The brown bear is one of the most omnivorous animals in the world and has been recorded consuming the greatest variety of foods of any bear. | 
 
 
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| Among all living bears, brown bears are uniquely equipped to dig for tough foods such as roots and shoots. | 
 
 
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| Other important insect aggregations that brown bears feed heavily on in some regions include ladybirds and caddisfly. | 
 
 
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| Beyond the regular predation of salmon, most brown bears are not particularly active predators. | 
 
 
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| As carcasses are often solidly frozen when encountered, brown bears may sit on them to thaw them sufficiently for consumption. | 
 
 
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| The extent of carnivory in brown bears has been proven to increase at northern latitudes. | 
 
 
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| When brown bears attack these large animals, they usually target young or infirm ones, as they are easier to catch. | 
 
 
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| When an open garbage dump was kept in Yellowstone, brown bears were one of the most voracious and regular scavengers. | 
 
 
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| The dump was closed after both brown and American black bears came to associate humans with food and lost their natural fear of them. | 
 
 
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| In other areas, such as Alaska, dumps may continue to be an attractant for brown bears. | 
 
 
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| There are reports of brown bears specifically targeting Amur leopards and tigers to appropriate their kills. | 
 
 
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| On the contrary, in Katmai National Park and Preserve, wolves, even lone wolves, may manage to displace brown bears at carrion sites. | 
 
 
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| Species which utilize underground or rock dens tend to be more vulnerable to predatory attacks by brown bears. | 
 
 
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| In North America, both species of otter have been known to be ambushed by brown bears when on land. | 
 
 
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| Due to their smaller size, American black bears are at a competitive disadvantage to brown bears in open, unforested areas. | 
 
 
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| Improbably, in the Himalayas, brown bears are reportedly intimidated by Asian black bears in confrontations. | 
 
 
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| In Siberia, the opposite is true, and black bears are not known to attack people, but brown bears are. | 
 
 
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| The charms of a blue-eyed chestnut-haired maiden in a turquoise muslin, with a brown boa, and a brown chip hat afroth with brown feathers, could not be gainsaid. | 
 
 
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| Despite averaging somewhat smaller sizes, brown bears tend to dominate polar bears in disputes over carcasses, and dead polar bear cubs have been found in brown bear dens. | 
 
 
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