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  • The golden-headed lion tamarin has been brought back from the edge of extinction.

    Nearly Half of the World’s Primates Face Extinction | Disinformation 2008

  • And on a more earthly plane, royals through the ages have tried to claim this golden-headed glory by wearing jewel-encrusted gold crowns.

    Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010

  • And on a more earthly plane, royals through the ages have tried to claim this golden-headed glory by wearing jewel-encrusted gold crowns.

    Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010

  • According to researchers at Anhui Normal University, the golden-headed box turtle may become extinct in 10 years.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • The golden-headed box turtle, or yellow-headed box turtle, (Cuora aurocapitata) is found in in Namling County, Yixian, Guande, Jingxian of China.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Three years ago only 100 golden-headed langurs were left on Cat Ba Island off Vietnam; now there are about 50.

    Primates: Family Report 2007

  • So is the golden-headed lion tamarin, a bizarre little beast with bright orange fur and the mane of an African lion.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • So is the golden-headed lion tamarin, a bizarre little beast with bright orange fur and the mane of an African lion.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • She was longing to know how grandmother had enjoyed her white bread and impatient to see and hear her again; but no time seemed weary to her now, for she could not listen long enough to the familiar voice of the trees, or drink in too much of the fragrance wafted to her from the green pastures where the golden-headed flowers were glowing in the sun, a very feast to her eyes.

    Heidi 2000

  • The Greeks of that little community sent him a golden-headed sword and a truncheon, set round with all the diamonds that the island could furnish, in a single row.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

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