Word: flightless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard fans, he'll always be "Emu," the large, flightless cager who just might have been the best Crimson basketball player ever...
When he ran down the Briggs Athletic Center court, it is more often to calls of "Emu"--a large, flightless bird--than to more positive epithets...
There's something pretty good going on here and an Ivy Player of the week is much more likely to draw support like that than a large flightless bird...
...bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous night stalker, a flightless sightless bat, with ears as sensitive as a NORAD radar antenna, that carries its clawlike hind legs over its shoulders as it roams around on its forelegs screeching, in search of prey...
...whose honor Nim was named, he has no doubts. Says Noam Chomsky: "It's about as likely that an ape will prove to have a language ability as that there is an island somewhere with a species of flightless birds waiting for hu man beings to teach them...