10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERENTIES»
Discover the use of
perenties in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perenties and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The dragons watchedand followed the Perenties with their eyes, staying
absolutelystill, with their wingsout stretched, one wing touching thebuilding and
the othercrossed with theother dragonin frontofthe door. The Otterscontinued
swimming in ...
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Special Operations Patrol Vehicles: Afghanistan and Iraq
Pink. Panthers,. Bushmasters,. and. Perenties. UK Special Forces again
deployed to Afghanistan with their old faithful, the DPV 110 Land Rover or Pink
Panther/Pinkie, as it is still nicknamed. Continually refined in mobility training
conducted in ...
3
Bushman of the Red Heart
Wandering out in the evening light to bring in more wood for the camp-fire, Ben
was confronted with a pair of giant perenties. He had heard about them but was
inclined to disbelieve their size. He stood stock-still and his blood froze. When a ...
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Australian Outback Food Chains
Finding hidden prey Perenties, such as the one shown above, eat mice, lizards,
insects, and frogs. To find prey, perenties walk with their snouts close to the
ground. They have parts in their mouths that they use to smell prey hiding under
the ...
Bobbie Kalman, Hadley Dyer, 2006
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Australian Wildlife Research
This could result in the cloacal temperatures of emerging perenties being higher
than air temperatures, as occurs in other varanids (Cowles 1930; King 1980). The
perentie is active on Barrow Island throughout the year (Green et al. 1986), as ...
6
Monitor Lizards: Natural History, Biology & Husbandry
It appears that perenties approaching 200 cm in length are the exception rather
than the rule, and that in general few specimens grow larger than 150 cm. If
specimens of 240 cm or more have ever existed, none seem to have survived to
the ...
Daniel Bennett, Thomas Wilms, Breck Bartholomew, 1998
By extrapolation from perenties, our hero estimates that this giant varanid must
be on the order of seven to eight meters long, larger than a good-sized man-
eating crocodile. Excitedly, not even pausing to think to fear for his life, he
decides that ...
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity
But when the tristis's turn came, about halfway through it grew tired of painting the
big perentie, and finished up by throwing the bucket of paint on the other lizard's
back half (again, perenties really are colored in such a pattern). The legend ...
Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, 2006
Perenties come out at night to hunt. Photographer David McClenaghan says
getting good pictures of an animal requires finding out "what it is, and what are its
habits and lifestyle." Getting photos of animals like bilbies and perenties is tricky.
William David Thomas, 2008
Right, As they head for the sea after breaking out, turtle hatchlings risk being
preyed on not only by sea birds, but also the perenties, which can eat hundreds
of the tiny creatures Below, Russel Lagdon took this picture of a perentie that had
...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERENTIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
perenties is used in the context of the following news items.
Wild Australia: The outback mountain 4 billion years old
It is a desolate place patrolled by a pair of two-metre perenties, Australia's largest monitor lizards. A kangaroo carcass, bleached by the sun, ... «The Australian, Feb 14»
Just add water and Uluru turns on the desert colour show
"Rain is very important to our community. It brings lots of bushtucker, water for the birds and big fat perenties (a type of lizard) to eat." × ... «The Australian, Jan 14»
Leaving 'Tracks' behind
There would be the drag marks of perenties, the pretty scallops of a snake, the long indentations of roos, the triple prongs of emus. In the evenings those silly ... «The Monthly, Oct 12»
Mercedes hits paydirt with the G-Class
The G-Class will gradually replace the army's fleet of 4000 Land Rover Perenties, which date from 1987 and are based on the Defender ... «The Australian, Apr 11»
Here Be Dragons
Perenties, however, leave the sprinting to their prey - the infected wounds they inflict allowing the monitors to take their time over everything ... «Sabotage Times, Oct 10»
Perth Zoo turn up the heaters to bet winter chill
Cold-blooded lizards and perenties - Australia's largest lizards found in arid regions of northern and central Australia - bake on rocks under ... «PerthNow, Jul 10»
Mammals moved to radioactive island
Perenties & snakes. Are thay also being relocated? Phillip irwin Posted at 6:54 AM February 24, 2010. What the f*** are these lunatics thinking? «PerthNow, Feb 10»
