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class into
featherless and feathered, [...]]
Diogenes Laërtius,
Lives of
Philosophers 6.40.
Quoted in "Plato and
Diogenes debate featherless bipeds", Lapham's...
- legs, and one tail. The
featherless bird-riddle is best
known in
Central Europe. An
English version is:
White bird
featherless Flew from Paradise, Perched...
- The
featherless bird-riddle is an
international riddle type that
compares a
snowflake to a bird. In the
nineteenth century, it
attracted considerable...
-
Gular skin (throat skin), in ornithology, is an area of
featherless skin on
birds that
joins the
lower mandible of the beak (or bill) to the bird's neck...
- 3 m (4 ft 3 in). The ****es are
similar in appearance.
Adults have a
featherless red-orange face and
predominantly grey plumage, with a
flattened dark...
- long-tailed widowbird. The
chicks of p****erines are altricial: blind,
featherless, and
helpless when
hatched from
their eggs. Hence, the
chicks require...
- "When
Water Comes to Life" – 3:47 "Must Explore" – 0:21 "Journey of the
Featherless" – 3:06 "The
Ghost Inside Our House" – 2:52 "It's What You Need" – 1:06...
- seed-eating, ground-nesting
birds of this
family resemble partridges, but with
featherless heads,
though both
members of the
genus Guttera have a
distinctive black...
- Laërtius, when
Plato gave the tongue-in-ch****
definition of man as "
featherless bipeds",
Diogenes plucked a
chicken and
brought it into Plato's Academy...
-
their rivals; the
Sirens turned white and fell into the sea at
Aptera ("
featherless"),
where they
formed the
islands in the bay that were
called Lefkai (the...
