They usually have well developed insulation in order to retain body heat, fur in the case of mammals and feathers in birds.

All have 12 tail feathers and nine primary flight feathers.

These feathers are lovely.

There were hundreds of ticks in its fur.

and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar

The ears are small, sparsely covered in hair, and hidden in the fur.

Those masks, those powdered wigs, those feathers? Venetian, Caribbean, Aztec?

These are less expensive and more easily laundered than natural down or feathers.

No arsenic was found on the feathers, however, indicating that poisoning was not caused by breathing airborne arsenic, since arsenic in the air would be expected to adhere to the feathers.

It is there that the bird acquired its distinctive red chest feathers.

Its members have long, broad wings with 11 primary and about 20 secondary flight feathers.

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Then, she was sold to a French Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau.

On the return trip, they encountered an Indian wearing a beautiful fur robe.

The area was attractive in the first instance because of the fur trading.

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

After his crew returned to Russia with sea otter pelts judged to be the finest fur in the world, small associations of fur traders began to sail from the shores of Siberia toward the Aleutian Islands.

Each is scattering away at random to try to save its scales or feathers.

China has also ruffled many Indian feathers by arbitrarily denying visas to senior officials.

So, Sacajawea agreed to trade her most precious possession, her beaded belt, for the fur.

It would become a major centre for the fur trade by the late 16th century.

And where it's landing to bring the twigs to the cliff, its feathers brushes the rock and it had cut the rock six to eight inches in. There was a cleft in the rock by the brushing of the feathers of generations of the birds.

The Iroquois dominated the economically important Great Lakes fur trade and had been in conflict with New France since 1680.

The entrepreneur might buy his wife a new fur coat or his workers a new production plant.

Peacocks have evolved to have long, colorful feathers simply because peahens have evolved to find them attractive.

Tropicbirds Order PelecaniformesFamily PhaethontidaeTropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

The species that live at higher elevations tend to have thicker fur than the monkeys at sea level.

Consider the events in Kailek, a village in south Darfur populated mainly by people of the Fur tribe.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

If this population of rabbits occurred in an environment that had areas of black rocks as well as areas of white rocks, the rabbits with black fur would be able to hide from predators amongst the black rocks, and the rabbits with white fur likewise amongst the white rocks.

while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

On August 31, news broke that Egypt had arrested a spy duck, with a suspicious gadget attached to its feathers.

Trading posts were also very common in the early settlements of Canada and the United States for the trade of such things as fur.

The North American fur trade was the industry and activities related to the acquisition, trade, exchange, and sale of animal furs in the North American continent.

Global civil society has developed instruments to halt consumption that produces harm. Elegant ladies, for example, no longer buy fur coats.

By the 18th century, they were part of a larger global economy brought about by European entry into the fur trade.

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes

The most common quills were taken from the wings of geese or ravens, although the feathers of swans and peacocks were sometimes favored for prestige.

Please take this music with you home, and start gluing feathers to your arms and take off and fly, and look at the world from a different perspective.

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

L. molitor is a large rodent, with the head and body length averaging 193 mm (7.60 in), characterized by a long tail, large hindfeet, and long and dense fur.

I'd like it to have the head of a Dachshund, the body of a retriever, maybe some pink fur, and let's make it glow in the dark ?

And aside from fur wearing Gong Li (or Leo, on a recent stop in Hong Kong), few stars in China have become known for their green choices.

Let's imagine that you are really good at making arrowheads, but you're hopeless at making the wooden shafts with the flight feathers attached.