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tube-nosed

[ toob-nohzed, tyoob- ]

adjective

  1. having a long, tubelike beak or snout.
  2. (of a petrel or similar bird) having extended tubelike nostrils.


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Species with white coats for camouflage—like snowshoe hares and snowy owls—could be at higher risk of predation, while polar bears and Ussurian tube-nosed bats may have fewer options to build their snowy dens.

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But shearwaters, as well as petrels and albatrosses, are part of a class known as tube-nosed seabirds, with tubular nostrils and an excellent senses of smell.

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They have more recently done other experiments, which show that shearwaters and the other tube-nosed birds, like petrels, albatrosses, and fulmars, are dependent on smell but not only smell.

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The mammal gained its nickname due to a likeness to the Star Wars character, but a University of York biologist has named it the hamamas tube-nosed fruit bat after the Papuan word for 'happy'.

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Body size effects and rates of cytochrome b evolution in tube-nosed seabirds.

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