Sentence examples for soft vegetation from inspiring English sources

The nest is an open cup consisting of thorny Acacia and Trevoa sticks, dry grass, and vegetable fibers, often lined with soft vegetation, wool, horsehair, rabbit hair, or other bird feathers (Lazo and Anabalón 1991, Marin 2011).

Most were large and fed mainly on soft vegetation.

The teeth were large, but they were primitive and adapted to consuming soft vegetation.

Its huge incisors - more than 30cm (12in) long – left researchers puzzled because its other, smaller, teeth showed that it ate only soft vegetation.

In some, the glands are definitely connected with territorial marking; a firm object is marked by rubbing, soft vegetation by swinging the head gently from side to side.

Benson et al. (2012) realized that the beak of Corythosaurus was shallow and delicate, and concluded that it must have been used to feed upon soft vegetation.

Instead the head seems better adapted to softer vegetation, and both wear on the teeth and adaptations seen in the bones of the neck show that these animals would feed by stripping branches and twigs of their leaves rather than biting through them.

Based on these dentitions, it has been inferred that Diplodocus ate soft, aquatic vegetation, or that its teeth were used for nipping or raking the fronds of terrestrial vegetation, while Camarasaurus ate tougher vegetation.

These flattened teeth appear to have been used to scoop up soft aquatic vegetation and to dig up roots.

Nevertheless, the weak bite force and fine scale of scratches on the wear facets in Nigersaurus favor soft understory vegetation, possibly immature ferns or horsetails [45], an interpretation that is at least consistent with a mid Cretaceous (ca. 110 Ma) habitat dominated by inland floodplains associated with high-energy river systems.

The toes became very long in birds that walk on aquatic vegetation or soft ground.