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  2. Chimera in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Chimera is referenced when describing the shape-shifting guardian creature that follows and protects John Smith in the movie I Am Number Four.; The character Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a Chimera-like creature, with the horns of a bison, brows of a gorilla, nose and mane of a lion, the back mane of a hyena, the tusks of a boar, the arms and chest of a bear and the hind legs and ...

  3. Eyespot (mimicry) - Wikipedia

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    Some reptiles, such as the sand lizard of Europe, have eyespots; in the sand lizard's case, there is a row of spots along the back, and a row on each side. [12]Many species of cat, including Geoffroy's cats, jungle cats, pampas cats, and servals, have white markings, whether spots or bars, on the backs of their ears; it is possible that these signal "follow me" to the young of the species.

  4. Canine tooth - Wikipedia

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    Animals where this occurs include antelopes, musk-deer, camels, horses, wild boar, some apes, seals, narwhal, and walrus. [6] Male dogs have larger canines with different contour than do females. [7] Humans have the proportionately smallest male canine teeth among all anthropoids and exhibit relatively little sexual dimorphism in canine tooth size.

  5. Phidippus audax - Wikipedia

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    Phidippus audax are commonly referred to as "bold jumping spiders" or "bold jumpers". [8] The species name, audax, is a Latin adjective meaning "audacious" or "bold". [8] This name was first used to describe the species by French arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, who described the spider as being, "very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it". [9]

  6. Ogre - Wikipedia

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    They posit that the ogre "teaches players about fighting big, powerful, stupid monsters, which is an iconic D&D experience". [ 20 ] The green-skinned ogre Shrek is a fictional character created by the American author William Steig that since 1990 has appeared in a book , several movies by DreamWorks Animation , a TV series, and a musical.

  7. Antler - Wikipedia

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    Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and-ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3] [4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).

  8. Chimera (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of disparate parts or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling. In other words, a chimera can be any hybrid creature.

  9. List of Star Wars species (P–T) - Wikipedia

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    The species is taller on average than Humans are, at approximately 1.9 meters. They are bald, and their head is striped with furrowed, grey skin. Pau'ans weigh seventy kilograms on average. They have large, sunken black eyes in red eye sockets and jagged, fang-like teeth used for tearing into raw meat, as they are carnivores. The species has ...