Sentence examples for like beak from inspiring English sources

Decades ago the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins suggested that one could study the evolution and genetics of behavior just the way one studies the evolution of body shape: concentrate on what animals build — birds's nests, beaver dams, termite mounds — and treat them like beak length or coat color.

Step 3: Next consider features like beak, tail, plumage.

In Z. borbonicus, the altitudinal increase of size-related traits like wing, tail and tarsus length, combined with an opposite trend for diet-related traits like beak dimensions, suggests the role of natural selection in driving morphological divergence along steep altitudinal gradients, as has been documented in other similar avian systems [ 39- 41].

Say things like "beak pokes through" or "wittle foot pops out".

A parrot-like beak juts out at the front.

The gleaming creature with a long sickle-like beak is often associated with bright tubular flowers.

The dinosaur takes its name from the Psittacines, the parrots, because of its superficially parrot-like beak and skull.

All have a massive scimitar-like beak for cracking nuts, digging up roots, or prying grubs from wood; feeding is aided by a strong tongue.

The chubby angel, at two feet tall with a wingspread of nearly four feet, is no cherub; the haughty curlew, with an amazing scythe-like beak, is about eight feet long and four feet wide.

Artistic responses to plague had their own tradition, and one engraving here, of a plague doctor wearing a mask with a bird-like beak (containing "aromatic substances") would, Slack notes wryly, hardly have been "reassuring".

Parrotfish are named for their teeth, which form a parrot-like beak that rasps algae from coral and rocks.