caribs

To the right of the caribs turn and soon thou shalt come to a marsh.

The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

On Cape Corientes there was a Spanish garrison of forty soldiers, chiefly mulattoes and caribs, who owned a swift periagua, fitted with oars and sails.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Columbus thought that they were cannibals or caribs, and would like to have taken some of them, but they did not come back, although afterwards he collected four youths who came out to the caravel with cotton and arrows.

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 3 Filson Young 1907

Columbus thought that they were cannibals or caribs, and would like to have taken some of them, but they did not come back, although afterwards he collected four youths who came out to the caravel with cotton and arrows.

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

Columbus thought that they were cannibals or caribs, and would like to have taken some of them, but they did not come back, although afterwards he collected four youths who came out to the caravel with cotton and arrows.

Christopher Columbus Young, Filson 1906

Some call them canibas; but in Spanish they are called caribs.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Some call them canibas; but in Spanish they are called caribs.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The scientists report that a female's choice of a male depends on the nectar supplies within his territory, which in turn depended on his prevention of nectar losses to competing male purple-throated caribs and other nectar feeding intruders.

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John Kress, a botanist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Ethan Temeles, an ornithologist and biology professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts, have spent several years researching purple throated caribs (Eulampis jugularis) in the wild on the island of Dominica.

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Scientists recently discovered that it is in the best interest of male purple-throated caribs to defend and maintain a territory with a high density of nectar-producing flowers.

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