Sentence examples for bigger tail from inspiring English sources

Zahavi interpreted this analogy to mean that higher quality peacocks with bigger tails are signalling their ability to "waste" more of some resource by trading it off for a bigger tail.

By analogy, if peacock 'tails' (large tail covert feathers) act as a handicapping system, and a peahen knew nothing about two peacocks but the sizes of their tails, she could "infer" that the peacock with the bigger tail has greater unobservable intrinsic quality.

L. otto shows a tendency to have a wider head than L. edwardsi and a bigger tail circumference than L. manasamody.

This is going to be the wolf's tail, so fold it farther to the right for a bigger tail or less to the right for a smaller tail.

I swiveled my head in time to see the big tail fade into the green.

The lead is just 68 and Sri Lanka's big tail is getting closer.

That has removed one of the big tail risks to the global economy – a chaotic break-up of the eurozone.

Unless, as Grossi's team have done, you simply take that complicated system and stick a big tail on its bum.

And one big tail wind that propelled the popularity of emerging-market equities and other risky assets — the widespread availability of cheap credit globally — has slackened.

Among the ads in the exhibition that most powerfully convey the association of status with new cars is one for the 1959 Cadillac, which had the biggest tail fins of any car ever made.

The aircraft themselves, however, still look much like they always have done: a cigar-shaped fuselage with a big tail, powered by pod-like engines hanging from a pair of protruding wings.