Unlike birds of prey, the talons of Old World vultures are relatively weak and unsuitable as weapons of attack. |
Homesick colonists brought their favorite flowers, medicinals, and edibles from the Old World. |
That also seems to be the case with some of the other New World quail and appears to reflect a bit of Old World bias of the authors. |
By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies. |
The twenty-dollar gift may allow him to slough off the backwardness of the Old World. |
Additional Old World families of this large order include bee-eaters, ground-rollers, hoopoes, wood-hoopoes, and hornbills. |