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married, had children, taught, raised his guinea pigs, and published. About ... during which Wright tucked an unruly guinea pig under his armpit, where ...

in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It involves a complex system ... alliance in the Sepik Coast area of Papua New Guinea. Families living ...

New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... sometimes called Mount Carstenz) makes New Guinea the world's fourth highest ...

Caviidae family, which also includes the guinea pig and cavy. (In some taxonomies ... it is a rodent rather than a relative of the pig. Remarkably, it has been classified ...

including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and adjacent islands ... ::*the island of New Guinea, which consist of the Indonesian provinces ...

as a result of respiration in a guinea pig. The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature ...

wild species is the ancestor of the domestic pig, Sus scrofa domesticus, which ... to the males of such mammals as the guinea pig, badger, skunk, raccoon ...

Marsupials are native to Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and the ... *** Family Chaeropodidae: Pig-footed Bandicoot *** Family Peramelidae: ...

only continental country, and Papua New Guinea and East Timor are the only ... * Papua New Guinea – Commonwealth Realm * Solomon Islands – Commonwealth ...

that followed. His role as a medical guinea pig inspired Kesey to write ... notably, he appeared at the Hog Farm Family Pig-Nic Festival (organized by ...

| Guinea Pig || 16 |- | Dove || 16 | Snail || 24 |- | Earthworm || 36 ... | Pig || 38 |- | Mouse || 40 | Rat || 42 |- | Rabbit || 44 ...

Livestock (singular or plural) is any domesticated mammal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting for the purposes of profit or subsistence ...

he should go to enemy’s village and kill a pig. After that his community ... A salient shared cultural feature of the Min peoples of the New Guinea ...

[[File:Cuy Guinea Pig Dish SG.jpg|thumb|400px|Cuy (guinea pig) served ... Pork, chicken, beef, and “cuy” (guinea pig) are popular in the mountain ...

mission to the neighboring state of Guinea. However, Amnesty International ... cannibalism of the Fore tribe in New Guinea, which resulted in the spread ...

names include "sea cow," "sea pig," and "sea camel ... Bay, and in Torres Strait south of New Guinea. Before 1970, it is thought ...

at 4,884 meters (16,024 ft), on the island of New Guinea. ... touch point lies between Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian region ...

animal resources, the Nasca used the llama and guinea pig for sacrifice at Cahuachi. Llamas were also commonly exploited as pack animals, for their ...

ended around 3500 B.C.E. whereas in New Guinea the end of the prehistoric era is set much more recently, at around 1900 C.E. The earliest historical ...

to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the ... 50,000 refugees fled into The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, and the region's ...

bedding, among other uses. Small pets such as guinea pigs and rabbits also eat hay, though they consume only very small quantities. Pigs may be fed hay ...

lacks scutes (scales). The Australasian pig-nose turtle, Carettochelys ... have webbed feet, a few turtles, such as the pig-nose turtles, have true flippers ...

of species, including higher primates and guinea pigs, have lost the ability ... to synthesize ascorbic acid are simians, guinea pigs, the red-vented bulbul ...

there were few suitable species; however the guinea pig was raised for meat in the Andes. By the fifteenth century, maize had been transmitted from ...

They also domesticated animals such as cuy (guinea pigs), llamas, and alpacas. Their technology also advanced; they started using ceramics, which ...

*guinea pig *gull *guppy *haddock *halibut *hammerhead shark ... *pig *pigeon *pike *pilot whale *piranha *platypus *polar bear ...

Castaneda becomes the guinea-pig hero of a modern quest as the weird glamor of the hypnotic, manipulating, profound, foxy old Indian carries ...

presents the 7 Habits he learned as a "guinea pig" for his father's theories applied to the world of teenagers, addressing the issues and ...

raccoon, and the hutia, a tropical version of the guinea pig. Larger mammals foreign to the islands were introduced during colonization. Mammals such ...

after hair cell injury in mature guinea pig cochlea in vivo,"] Cell Tissue Res. 325(2006)(1):23-31.P. M. White, A. Doetzlhofer, Y. S. Lee ...

of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. The word "hippopotamus" derives from the ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος ...

Morocco was held until 1956 and Spanish Guinea and the Spanish Sahara were ... Spanish Sahara, parts of Morocco, and Spanish Guinea. The wars of independence ...

including humans, other rabbits, guinea pigs, and sometimes even cats and dogs. It was commonly believed that pregnancy tests were based on the ...

infected humans, domestic animals like cats, dogs, guinea pigs and wild animals like rodents, monkeys, ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) and many ...

quot; which he called the "Evolution of Guinea Pig B" (B for Buckminster). Instead of committing his efforts to the exclusive benefit ...

from the Rhône valley. Poultry from Bresse, guinea fowls from Drôme and fish from the Dombes lakes and mountains in Rhône-Alpes are key to the ...

was forbidden for the Hindu soldiers, while pig fat was forbidden for the ... South-West Africa (now Namibia) and New Guinea (the last two actually under ...

developed on the island of New Guinea. The reasons for the development ... In 1967, there were one million pig farms in America; by 2002 ...

observed that Papuans, the population of Papua New Guinea, have more allele sharing than Aboriginal Australians (Rasmussen et al. 2011). ...

As in Spain, the wild goat, wild pig and deer are found in the Portuguese ... of Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique. ...

picante de cuy (a casserole dish made of fried guinea pig with some spices). The most popular ceviche is a type of seafood cocktail where the ...

China, France, sub-Saharan Africa, and Papua New Guinea. The finding is that about 1 to 4 percent of the genes of the non-Africans came from Neanderthals ...

Muslim civilization from Cordoba to Delhi, from Guinea to Samarkand. Persia held a position as a crossroads of the major "highways" of that period. ...