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  • Guided by dazzling troupes of flying, swimming and land-borne mascots -- king and white herons, eagles, agutis, cappivara, tapir, kaiman, turtles, nine species of monkeys and a kaleidoscopic battalion of butterflies -- the deafening silence was only periodically shattered by dissonant cries of scarlet, military or yellow macaws as we ventured further into the heart of darkness.

    Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011

  • Guided by dazzling troupes of flying, swimming and land-borne mascots -- king and white herons, eagles, agutis, cappivara, tapir, kaiman, turtles, nine species of monkeys and a kaleidoscopic battalion of butterflies -- the deafening silence was only periodically shattered by dissonant cries of scarlet, military or yellow macaws as we ventured further into the heart of darkness.

    Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011

  • According to recent estimates, however, such as by E.O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (1992), there are at least one million land-borne species today, which means that, if they are descendants of the animals aboard the Ark, then speciation must have been taking place at an average rate of about 200 new species per year for the last 5,000.

    Making a Monkey out of Pat Buchanan 2009

  • "Some of the most elite members and units within the security forces would engage in simulated scenarios and enact certain aspects of our emergency contingency plans in order to neutralise any form of airborne and land-borne threat," Naidoo said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Another involves the collapse of the largely land-borne but ocean-anchored West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the slow slide of which into the ocean if the anchor points melted away could raise sea level by 5 metres in 500 years (Oppenheimer, 1998).

    Chapter 8 2000

  • The auctioneers dealt with 194,477 tons of fish, of which 120,905 were water-borne and 73,572 land-borne.

    A Terminal Market System New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets Madeleine Black

  • The land-borne liues safe, the forreine at his ease:

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Angular momentum is now changing as land-borne ice melts and relocates as liquid to the equatorial bulge of the planet.

    CommonDreams.org Headlines 2009

  • (On a global scale: what happens to sea levels when land-borne ice melts?)

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

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