Sentence examples for proboscis- from inspiring English sources

You'll visit the world's largest orang-utan sanctuary, investigate where bird's nest soup comes from and where thousands of bats live, snorkel on Tiga Island and, best of all, take jungle walks and river cruises through the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary - an area crammed with unusual creatures, including Asian pygmy elephants, sun bears, proboscis monkeys and the sublimely serene orang-utans.

I've seen fresh footprints of Bengal tigers where they crossed in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, proboscis monkeys peering from trees in Malaysia, and immense sea crocodiles launching themselves from primordial shores towards our boat in emerald enclaves of India's Bhitarakanika sanctuary.

I'm expecting something with tentacles to emerge and unravel a proboscis.

Oysters have relatively few natural predators: mainly starfish, which attach themselves to the shell with multitudinous teeth and patiently chew through, and the oyster drill, a species of carnivorous snail that attaches itself to a mollusc shell with a multi-toothed organ and inserts its proboscis, which releases enzymes that digest the creature in its home, making it easy to hoover up.

Creatures with multifaceted, compound eyes, who see a fourth primary colour that is invisible to humans, who eat with their proboscis but taste food with their feet, who use their antennae for feeling, smelling and hearing.

The proboscis had a set of grasping claws on the end, which were used to grab food and stuff it into Opabinia's mouth.

This turned out to be misleading because many of the creatures are so unusual that they are still difficult to classify.Opabinia, for example, grew to about 8cm (3 inches), had five eyes, a body that was a series of lobes, a fan-shaped tail and ate using a long proboscis.

The proboscis comprises 16 muscles.

The proboscis is used for food collection.

The proboscis contains the animal's brain.

These bees will then associate the smell of clover with nectar, and the scent of a clover flower will send them into a frenzy of proboscis-extension.With the help of Brian Smith and Seetha Bhagavan from Ohio State University, Dr Stopfer and Dr Laurent tapped into this natural behaviour by training bees to protrude their tongues in response to a set of simple odours.