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mane

the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
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"Whatever the cause, we know that while they are infertile, maned lionesses in the wild are otherwise perfectly capable of survival."
African elephants in Tanzania have seen numbers crash due to poaching, maned wolves in Brazil are threatened by grasslands being turned into farmland and European eels have declined due to disease, over-fishing and changes to their river habitats.
The ship was maned by a crew of 12 men of Ukrainian, Turkish and Azerbaijani nationalities.
Micheal's vision has been realized in the imposing form of "Buddy Bigfoot," a seven foot tall, blue, horned, golden- maned, brown- eyed, green polka- dotted monstrosity that has completely failed to terrorize all that discover him.
At night I smoke my pipe and stare through slate-gray smoke at maned medallions hovering shed-high, abob with frowns that seem to find the ground they've left most worthy of their cupped stares down.
The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is a characteristic canid of the cerrado biome and its existence area includes Central Brazil, Paraguay, and small areas of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and possibly Uruguay.
In 1899 a young black maned Nubian lion escaped from Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie which was in Aston.
In Brazil the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is endangered with extinction, being the infectious diseases one of the major threats to the species (Machado et al., 2008).
Though the rakishly maned Canuck tends to keep a fairly low profile for a prominent businessman with a fortune in excess of $3 billion, he was launched into the showbiz spotlight this spring when it was announced he's gone into partnership with veteran producer Joel Silver to develop, produce and/or finance a full slate of feature films, television fare and digital content.
He forms a very watchable double act with Rutter's luxuriantly maned and bearded Lear, a ruler adrift in mind and body in a shattered kingdom of his own doing who, rather than being mollified and mollycoddled, is presented with plain truth.
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