Word: hinde
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage to be able to reach higher. That's why the gerenuk [a type of antelope] evolved its long neck and stands on its hind legs, and why the giraffe evolved its long neck. There's strong pressure to be able to reach a wider range of levels...
...Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed in the cross fire. Several weeks into the contest, however, a wave of Web surfers, spurred by mass e-mails among Israeli sympathizers, swamped the site with votes for cute-animal photos. (A crippled puppy using a wheeled cart for hind legs took the top spot.) The site canceled the contest last month on the ground that people were voting more than once...
...crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching you? He shakes his head. "These animal rights people don't understand," says Girdhari Lal's owner...