Sentence examples for in the fork of from inspiring English sources
It took nearly half an hour to find my first koala, wedged in the fork of a tree.
I spot two robin's nests, one sitting in the fork of a tree, another dangling off a branch.
The half-light reduced the forest to blacks and dark greens, but a hundred feet up I could see a bonobo sitting silently in the fork of a branch.
We didn't see any leopards, but we came across the strangest leopard kill our ranger said he had ever seen -- a legless jackal hanging in the fork of a tree.
They sleep either perched in the fork of a tree or hanging from a branch, with all four feet bunched together and the head tucked in on the chest.
The tornado on Sept. 16, which destroyed thousands of trees citywide, ripped a large branch off a tree on South Oxford Street, revealing a honeybee colony nestled in the fork of the London plane.
Three-toed sloths (family Bradypodidae) move in the same way but often sit in the forks of trees rather than hanging from branches.
Usually pairing for life, they build large untidy nests out of sticks in the forks of trees.
Nests are generally sited in the forks of large trees overlooking bodies of water.
Like other slow lorises, the Sunda slow loris is an arboreal and nocturnal primate, resting by day in the forks of trees, or in thick vegetation and feeding on fruit and insects by night.
In this study, we test the use of snow covered area (SCA) data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite for calibration of four key parameters in the distributed US National Weather Service NWSSNOW17W17 model in the North Fork of the American River basin in California, USA.
