Sentence examples for by beak from inspiring English sources
In the popular imagination, the animals nestle together, fur by beak, claw by nape, the humans happy among them.
Chuong, C. M., Wu, P., Plikus, M., Jiang, T. X. & Bruce Widelitz, R. Engineering stem cells into organs: topobiological transformations demonstrated by beak, feather, and other ectodermal organ morphogenesis.
It also has a native population of the one of the grandest birds on earth, the lammergeier, or bearded vulture, whose wingspan can exceed 10 feet and which sometimes carries bones high overhead and drops them onto rocks, cracking them open so marrow can be yanked out by beak.
This again might indicate that the frequency pattern is more influenced by beak gape.
Here, both immobilisation (constriction) and prevention of escape (containment within the foot) are conducted by the feet, and assisted by beak attacks.
The apparatus and experimental protocol were the same as that used in sequential trials, except that the tools were not pushed out of reach and were therefore accessible by beak alone.
One way to avoid eggs laid by beak-trimmed hens is to buy them from organic farms certified by the Soil Association, which bans the practice.
An imposing ruin inhabited by beak-clattering storks, it always provided a welcome stillness but, as of September this year, it has become the temporary home of the new Museum for Photography and Visual Arts (mmpva.org).org
A similar localization of foramina is seen in ornithischian dinosaurs, whose jaws and oral margins were sheathed by beaks ahead of the tooth row39.
With the Penguin Random House merger now done and dusted, a vast community of book industry folk and readers are sighing a sad sigh of disappointment that the company didn't take the bull by the horns, or the penguin by the beak, and rebrand as Random Penguin.
Many hinged brachiopods attach to the substrate, or surface, by a tough, fibrous pedicle; but some specialized forms are cemented to the substrate by the beak of the ventral valve.
