squirrel
noun [ C ]
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Meaning of squirrel in English
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Captive agoutis and squirrels readily ate larvae when presented without the surrounding endocarp, and preferred larvae to seeds.
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A small proportion of fruits were destroyed by squirrels (0.8% at seven trees) or removed by some unknown vertebrate (1.6% at three trees).
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We were able to trace these projections in squirrel and macaque monkeys.
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We also describe experiments involving transfer of squirrel serum to mice to check if serum factors are involved in such changes.
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A few species were confined to the forest zone (red-flanked duiker, pangolin, civet, ground squirrel).
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These proportions are derived from regression lines plotted of data from blood counts of 40 infected squirrels at first capture.
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For grey squirrels the expansion in tetrads occupied appeared to rise asymptotically, with the expansion declining after 1999.
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In the squirrel monkey, nothing is known about the timing of the formation of ocular dominance columns.
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This effect also occurs in those normal squirrel monkeys that have well-segregated ocular dominance columns.
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A nutritional comparison of selected fox squirrel foods.
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Indicating that contact and infection probabilities both determined the extent to which the red squirrel population declined.
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Red squirrels may have recolonized tetrads from which they were lost in the last 2 years of the sample period.
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Additional sampling from wild-captured squirrels over several seasons and controlled laboratory experiments are needed to address these hypotheses.
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Finally, many basic anatomical and physiological properties in the early visual system of squirrel have now been described, permitting investigations of cellular mechanisms.
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All five squirrel monkeys raised with strabismus exhibited well-developed ocular dominance columns in striate cortex of each hemisphere.
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リス…
sincap…
écureuil [masculine], écureuil…
esquirol…
سِنْجاب…
veverka…
egern…
tupai…
กระรอก…
con sóc…
wiewiórka…
tupai…
das Eichhörnchen…
ekorn [neuter], ekorn…
다람쥐…
scoiattolo…
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