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"pygmy" Definitions
  1. used to describe a plant or species (= type) of animal that is much smaller than other similar kinds

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Spider Eating a Pygmy Possum Is Obviously AustralianThat's a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!
Though it's not clear which species of pygmy possum we're looking at here (I've reached out to experts for help identifying it), the island has two species, the Eastern pygmy possum and the Tasmanian pygmy possum.
It is a rice rat, not a pygmy rice rat.
The most commonly bred species is the African pygmy hedgehog.
The same went for the pygmy swordtails, for both male types.
Let this newborn pygmy hippo beam some sunshine into your life.
Have you ever seen anything cuter than a baby pygmy hippo?
That's roughly the ratio between a pygmy mouse and a lion.
Researchers discovered the new virus in pygmy mice in east-central Texas.
Live in the city and want a pygmy pig as a pet?
He said residents have also brought in kangaroos, wallabies, and pygmy possums.
A Eurasian pygmy owl is seen roosting after the loss of its mate.
AEDT A second pygmy marmoset has also been found, according to ABC News.
The wildlife in the vicinity includes pygmy goats, Iranian sheep, and black bears.
Even some low-flying birds like the ferruginous pygmy-owl could have trouble.
Look at her marching around, a cuddly little pygmy hippo with places to go!
Photo: Justine LattonThat's a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!
We were also touring together when he was in a band called Pygmy Shrews.
SDI defeated the Evil Empire — will America be destroyed by nuclear pygmy North Korea?
According to People's Daily Online, the pygmy marmoset is considered an exotic pet in China.
Electrotettix attenboroughi is an extinct species of pygmy grasshopper that was found preserved in amber.
Recalling his meeting with one pygmy, Dr. Rabinowitz said he had communicated nonverbally with him.
China has gone, the authors say, from "pygmy to emerging giant in civilian nuclear power".
A tiny, "fingertip-sized" pygmy chameleon at the Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, Jan. 29.
A top Pakistani official just called the US ambassador to Afghanistan a "little pygmy" on Twitter.
Both Lionel and Lilo are African pygmy hedgehogs, which is the most common kind of hedgehog.
There are Swiss yodellers, cowboy yodellers, and polyphonic Pygmy yodellers in the forests of the Congo.
"There were videos and photos of pygmy marmosets we kept shooting around internally," Davin Sufer told Gizmodo.
"Dead fish, dolphins, manatee, shark, pygmy whale — the wildlife fatality count has been just heartbreaking," says Fanara.
A press release from the zoo states that pygmy hippos are smaller than their Nile hippo relatives.
I can't help but smile as a pygmy goat dressed as a dinosaur nudges me with curiosity.
Seven members of a Pygmy ethnic group living in the nearby forest were also killed, officials said.
Their main concern is for a four-week-old baby pygmy marmoset, who's among the three captured.
The protected tropical rainforests are home to wildlife including tropical birds, chimpanzees, forest elephants, and pygmy hippos.
The zoo's pygmy hippos, tigers and lemurs were given their own jack-o-lanterns ahead of Halloween.
The fires could wipe out some endangered species, including the southern corroboree frog and mountain pygmy-possum.
She pulled up the picture of a wild pygmy marmoset that launched the idea for the Fingerlings.
The bark of the cedar plant mixed with pygmy marmoset blood is thought to do the trick.
The media bought into the idea that Gore was a rhetorical giant and Bush was a oratorical pygmy.
The pictures, posted by Justine Latton on Saturday, show a suspended huntsman spider grasping a small pygmy possum.
On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales were found stranded on Ninety Mile Beach, in the country's North Island.
Now, Jerry Yang did go and get his head handed to him during ... Got called a moral pygmy.
A woman selling small stuffed animals called Pygmy Puffs rang a bell when a little girl bought one.
In a single minute she has sucked in 250 breaths while I hold mine, admiring her pygmy physique.
So she thought it was a fascinating ... I mean it's like looking at the pygmy tribes of ... [laughter].
As the DOC reports, 10 pygmy whales are stuck on 90 Miles Beach, two of which have been refloated.
Except in the case of pygmy goats, for which he has a taste, he seems to kill for sport.
Beyond that, Kim will discover that his pygmy arsenal will buy him little more than deterring external military intervention.
The OKC Zoo welcomed 26-year-old pygmy hippopotamus Francesca to its facility from the San Diego Zoo this December.
Clearly you little pygmy your knowledge of ball tampering is as void as your understanding of Afghanistan and the region!
So we are looking to inform our pygmy brothers and sisters through the radio, to make them feel included and empowered.
Today's vaccinations included three doctors at Bikoro Hospital, two health experts, two nurses, a woman's community representative, and a pygmy representative.
Ota Benga, a man from the Mbuti pygmy peoples in the Congo, was kidnapped by white supremacist 'African explorer' Samuel Verner.
Pygmy slow lorises are nocturnal, so they're active after sunset, and tend to hang upside down by one foot from trees.
In the pygmy mice in the new study, the virus caused unique skin lesions on the animals&apos feet and tails.
This could explain why it wasn't a pygmy at this late stage, and why it's not quite a full-blown Columbian.
Pygmy marmosets are the world's smallest monkeys as is, so just try to imagine how teensy-weensy their babies must be!
This is the smallest monkey fossil yet discovered, but it's still much larger than the smallest living monkey, the pygmy marmoset.
"What's good for the animals is also good for the Pygmies," Dieudonné Kembé, a Pygmy working in Dzanga Sangha, told me.
Ten pygmy killer whales were also stranded on Sunday at 90 Mile Beach on the western coast of the North Island.
On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales were found stranded on the far north beaches of New Zealand, according to the network.
And the taller the fence, the more impassable it is for some bats and birds, like the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
The rainforest of Mount Gorongosa, whose highest peak is 1,863 meters (23,112 feet), is home to pygmy chameleons and other rare species.
According to THV11 News, the 3-year-old mama is a pygmy slow loris, as is her 7-year-old mate, Frasier.
Their lifespans shortened, and they shrank hundreds of pounds, from the size of a pygmy hippo to that of a large dog.
Some 300 bird species make their home in the 600,000-hectare Danube Delta, including pygmy cormorants, white-tailed eagles and glossy ibises.
Twenty five pygmy elephants have died in the Malaysian state of Sabah this year, Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga told Reuters.
There were two silky anteaters, or pygmy anteaters, high in the branches of a nearby tree, their fuzzy, pinkish-brown tails intertwined.
Based on their small body size, Jane and Petey were once thought to belong to a pygmy T. rex species called Nanotyrannus.
It is home to some 15 species, including a pygmy owl, a mountain tanager and a foliage gleaner, which are found nowhere else.
The pygmy sloth, the smallest of the sloths that only lives on an island of the Caribbean coast of Panama, is critically endangered.
Smaller than a hamster, the pygmy marmoset is the world's smallest monkey, with a body size that ranges from 5.5 to 6.3 inches.
Before you can fix your cowlick, a pygmy elephant saunters over, plops down next to you, and hands you a glowing, golden orb.
Calico is a 2-year-old African pygmy hedgehog and she has probably traveled through more of the United States than you have.
It was impressively altruistic — but these idealists were oblivious to Pygmy villagers nearby dying of malaria for want of $5 mosquito bed nets.
This little lady is one of 32 pygmy hippos in the Species Survival Program; there are only about 3,000 left in the wild.
There was the sprawling approach of City of Caterpillar, the blistering destruction of Crestfallen, and the anything-goes folk hybrid of Pygmy Lush.
What if the ancestors of the people around the cave had interbred with the extinct hominins, inheriting genes for a pygmy body type?
Humans have evolved pygmy bodies on other islands, including a few in the Philippines and in the Andaman Islands of the Indian Ocean.
"With as few as 2000-3000 Pygmy Hippos remaining in the wild, every little calf is important," zookeeper Renae Moss said in a release.
He learned about a Pygmy tribe that passes around babies between different community members all day long so that children develop multiple relationships early.
The pygmy species prefer to live elusive, solitary lives in lowland forests, mainly within Liberia in West Africa, with a handful in neighboring countries.
"Pygmy hippos are elusive and extremely rare in the wild with only a few thousand thought to be left in the world,"  said Massaro.
The new "It pet" for China's wealthy is a fitting one, considering it's the year of the monkey this Lunar New Year — the pygmy marmoset.
Because of the [nearby] University of Georgia library, we had checked out pygmy music and had a picnic where we listened to the Aka pygmies.
Symbio Zoo made a public plea on Facebook Sunday night, praying for the safe return of three pygmy marmosets which were stolen from their enclosure.
"He was adopted into a Pygmy extended family and was very proud of it," said Mary-Claire King, a geneticist at the University of Washington.
Health workers have trained local figures - including religious leaders, traditional chiefs, pygmy groups and even motorcycle-taxi drivers - on ways to stop the virus, she said.
In it, Bell attempts to buy a Pygmy three-toed sloth — "you know...that good shiz" — off the internet, played here by an adorable little girl.
Although the researchers initially suspected that the pygmy mice could have a poxvirus infection, "we didn&apost expect that we&aposd uncover something novel," Hamer said.
Located in Mississippi's capital city, the zoo was founded in 1919 and is home to endangered species, such as the pygmy hippo, Sumatran tiger, and chimpanzee.  
"Our pygmy hippo Nicky had fun stomping on and chomping her way through her own spooky squashes," ZSL London Zoo's Animal Operations Manager Angela Ryan said.
As a Batwa pygmy, Nyanokonzo was constantly fearful of being taunted or attacked by someone from the majority Bantu population, known to routinely stigmatize the Batwa minority.
The height of the wall alone could impact the movement of birds that either don't fly, such as roadrunners, or who fly low, such as pygmy owls.
The downsizing of the Columbian mammoth to the smaller pygmy could have occurred over just several thousand years, and that has the paleontologists thinking of another possibility.
The ice pop shop made pygmy hippo themed pops for a birthday celebration for Holly Berry, featuring special flavors such as Watermelon, Honeydew Basil and Cantaloupe Mint.
On Saturday, a family of three pygmy marmosets, father Gomez, mother Sofia and a yet to be named four-week old newborn were found missing by keepers.
The songs include a Peruvian wedding song, a Pygmy girls' initiation song, a movement from one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry.
The family lived for a while in a hut in Borneo, surrounded by pitcher plants, flowers the size of beanbag chairs, flying snakes and pygmy forest elephants.
One of the station's pygmy reporters, a bright 18-year-old called Jacques Mboyo, fell ill in 2016 and died - his parents could not afford the hospital fees.
Ms Schulman's new novel, "Theory of Bastards", also revolves around a female scientist who interacts with an endangered great ape—in this case the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee.
In fact, this is the first baby pygmy hippo to be born at the Targona Zoo in seven years, adding one more lovely creature to a dwindling population.
Around that time, the group become regulars at LA vintage spot Pygmy Hippo Shoppe, where they befriended owner Nathan Cabrera, a longtime creative collaborator of Hanni El Khatib.
Whether extinct Triceratops was also "horny" is something we'll never know, but among living vertebrate animals, the "horniest" is probably the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee, of Central Africa.
Baby-faced with oversized ears and long tails that drag on the ground, pygmy elephants are found on Borneo island which is shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
Loss of habitat is the biggest threat for the pygmy elephants, with deforestation, logging and rapid expansion of palm oil plantations contributing to the decline in their population.
The pygmy marmoset is a 100-gram primate that lives in the Amazon Basin, and is the smallest monkey known to science even after the new fossil discovery.
In "Flores Woman," from "Duende" (2007), her second book, she speaks in the voice of a species of pygmy humans whose bones were discovered on an Indonesian island.
The book is filled with such lovely anecdotes, many from Thomas's own rich life of natural adventure, whether surveying sparrows in Italy or encountering pygmy elephants in Borneo.
Weighing a little over 10 pounds at birth, the unnamed pygmy hippo calf is roughly the size of a bulldog and yet cuter than any dog you've ever seen.
Starting with the known locations and habits of 654 pygmy camps in five countries, the scientists mapped out grids of terrain across central Africa where similar camps could exist.
What's piqued the scientists about the skull unearthed this week is it's not big enough to qualify as a Columbian mammoth and not small enough to be a pygmy.
Upcoming measurements will determine the age of the mammoth when it died, which could clarify whether it's a Columbian, a pygmy, or some kind of transitional or intermediary species.
The term pygmy is often used in Congo and in other parts of Africa, although the forest dwellers tend to refer to themselves by the names of their groups.
Bishop pine and Douglas fir give way to stunted cypresses, to sedges, pygmy manzanita, to Bolander's pines stooped and ancient, hundreds of years old and only shoulder height on her.
What they did: The paper analyzed more than 1 million songs from three species of large baleen whales: fin, Antarctic blue and three acoustically distinct populations of pygmy blue whales.
The pygmy mammoths, just 4 to 6 feet tall, roamed the island's grass lands and forests during the Pleistocene era, according to the National Park Service, which manages the islands.
Elsewhere the rights group has documented isolated tribes in Africa, including Pygmy tribes in Central Africa, Bushmen in Botswana and tribes in the Congo Basin and Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Located across from the 1661 Inn, a historic hotel, the 1661 Animal Farm is a haven for llamas, pygmy and fainting goats, black swans, a yak, and other furry friends.
He was forced to take action two years ago after his weight - which was more than an adult Pygmy hippopotamus - left him suffering a long-list of painful health complaints.
Nicky the pygmy hippo didn't waste her time on gourd-gazing, she powerful jawed her way through a whole patch of pumpkins before taking a break from the festive buffet.
So far, a penguin named Heathcliff came in at 4.25 kilograms; and the Pygmy goats, Bramble, Polly and Ellie, tipped the scales at 21.5 kg, 19.7 kg and 15.8 kg.
The family also hunts together, stalking moose on horseback in the Canadian Rockies, or the elusive Bongo, a species of antelope, on journeys down the Congo River with Pygmy guides.
The family also hunts together, stalking moose on horseback in the Canadian Rockies, or the elusive Bongo, a species of antelope, on journeys down the Congo River with Pygmy guides.
In addition to being cute, the births are a boon for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums: the AZA's Species Survival Plan now includes the care of 56 pygmy slow lorises.
"We are yet to discover whether this is an anomaly, or something quite typical for this area - when a grown up mammoth looks like a pygmy," he told the Siberian Times .
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is investigating a surge in the number of deaths of pygmy elephants, an endangered species found in the tropical rainforests of Borneo, wildlife authorities said on Thursday.
You can judge for yourself on Sunday at "Fun on the Farm," where they will be up and running: eight goats of different breeds, including the pygmy, Alpine, Oberhasli and LaMancha.
An environmental scientist at the World Wildlife Fund Australia, Stuart Blanch, told HuffPost that the fires could wipe out some endangered species, including the southern corroboree frog and mountain pygmy-possum.
In fact, they had a strong kinship to the Aka, a group of hunter-gatherers with a pygmy body type who live today in rain forests 1,000 miles to the east.
George Plimpton put it best in recalling that after a heavyweight had been knocked out by Foreman, he seemed to shrink to the size of a pygmy while Foreman grew even bigger.
Sumatran orangutan Sea otter Swift fox Spotted owls Monk seal Asiatic lions Sea turtles Asian elephants Columbia basin pygmy rabbit Rhino Vaquita To learn more about endangered species, visit the WWF's website.   
She was the first in a long chain of "African entertainments"—Zip the Pinhead, the Duck-Billed Ubangis, the pygmy Ota Benga—on whose backs Barnum and his successors rode to glory.
Could he design a small robotic toy that resembled a pygmy marmoset, a tiny Amazonian monkey that Ms. Wiseman had been obsessed with since she was a child growing up in Montreal.
One study found that the endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl — which bears a striking resemblance to The Sword in the Stone's fussy cartoon owl, Archimedes — won't fly up over the 30-foot wall.
Researchers can say that with more certainty after confirming that two small T. rex fossils found in the early 2000s are not a pygmy species of tyrannosaurs, but juveniles of the rex species.
Also prior to the fires, there were an estimated 2,8.6-3,000 mountain pygmy-possum in the wild and some 370 glossy black cockatoos on Kangaroo Island, the main place the bird has survived.
An eclectic mix of local grasses and fabrics, brass, copper, wooden furniture — Pygmy beds from Congo used as coffee tables — and cracked-leather headboards give the spaces a sense of globe-trotting chic.
"Over the years, pygmy pigs have gained popularity and recognition as great pets due to the combination of their unique traits such as cleanliness, diminutive size, friendly disposition and intelligence," the bill says.
Launched in late 2014 with the support of Congolese non-profit groups Secteur Media and Children's Radio Foundation, Radio Mwana aims to empower the province's indigenous people by training pygmy teenagers as youth reporters.
The area is home to a host of endangered species, from the handful of American jaguars living at the far northern end of the big cat's range, to the diminutive cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
The omnivorous pygmy slow loris is native to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature considers it vulnerable due to the exotic pet trade, habitat destruction and hunting.
The cultivation of palm oil, which is used in everything from ice cream to lipstick, is blamed for large scale deforestation in Southeast Asia and for endangering wildlife, such as orangutans and pygmy elephants.
Rogatien Kitenge, an advocate for Pygmy rights in the provincial capital of Kalemie, said he had received reports of between 13 and 16 people killed in tit-for-tat attacks between the two groups.
In Manono, in the eastern province of Tanganyika, more than 140 villages have been reportedly burned down in a separate conflict between the pygmy population and Bantu ethnic groups, causing forced displacement, he said.
She was particularly moved, she added, by the bust of Ota Benga, a Congolese man who was displayed for a time in the Bronx Zoo under the label "African Pygmy"; he committed suicide in 1916.
So, my guess — even if he is attacked badly by an attention-seeking politician, as Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was when he was called a "moral pygmy" in 2007 — is that he can handle it.
While not as small as the Channel Islands pygmy mammoths, the woolly mammoths of Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, also shrunk over generations and could have been the very last population of the species.
Photo: Facebook/Symbio Wildlife ParkThree days after burglars stole a family of pygmy marmosets from Symbio Wildlife Park near Sydney, Australia, the eldest marmoset, a 10-year-old male named Gomez, remained missing, Buzzfeed reports.
At the opposite end of the country, rescuers at Ninety Mile Beach, near the northern tip of the North Island, delayed efforts to refloat eight stranded pygmy killer whales until Tuesday because of bad weather.
Three endangered species — the corroboree frog, the mountain pygmy possum and the stocky galaxias, a fish found in only one river system — are at risk unless the number of horses is reduced quickly, scientists say.
David Ngoy Luhaka, a priest and member of the Diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace, said fighting broke out on Tuesday when a Pygmy militia attacked the town of Manono, leading to reprisals by Bantu militia.
In case you missed it, "The Big Pygmy" scaled the near-20,000-foot mountain with Super Bowl champ Chris Long and some of his NFL bros ... all to raise awareness for the water crisis in Africa.
It's no surprise, then, that Mazari (like others in Khan's government) harbors animosity toward the US. But calling a US ambassador a "little pygmy," in the middle of a sensitive diplomatic negotiation, could lead to further complications.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International wildlife charities are funding anti-poaching squads that arrest, torture and kill indigenous 'pygmy' people for hunting in their ancestral forests in the Congo Basin, according to a charity for tribal people.
A Pygmy living on the edge of the jungle in what may be the world's most wretched country, she has borne five children and now cradles little Bruno, a fourth in peril, with fierce devotion and desperation.
Tiger enthusiasts are quick to bring up Lazarus species—animals that were considered lost but then found—which in Australia include the mountain pygmy possum (known from fossils dating from the Pleistocene and long thought to be extinct, it was found in a ski lodge in 1966); the Adelaide pygmy blue-tongue skink (rediscovered in a snake's stomach in 19953); and the bridled nailtail wallaby, which was resurrected in 1973, after a fence-builder read about its extinction in a magazine article and told researchers that he knew where some lived.
The research team collected both sexes of two species of swordtail from the wild in Mexico for the study: green swordtails (which only have courting males), and high-backed pygmy swordtails (which have both courting and sneaking males).
Because the ancient creature was only living about a quarter as long as it did before the extinction event, it became much smaller and less heavy—think pygmy hippo-sized to large dog-sized—but much more prolific.
He would ask me questions in a grave voice, like an anthropologist interviewing a Pygmy, and he sometimes gave me a piece of beeswax with honey to chew—strange, like him, with its chambered secrets, but also sweet.
They were told their bachelor had to be open-minded and spiritually inclusive in order to pair up with, say, a pygmy, or a maiden from the Korowai tribe of New Guinea, or perhaps a lass from Nagaland.
Clinton Epps, a wildlife biologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, was one of the authors on a 2009 study published in Conservation Biology that suggested that a barrier would have a negative effect on the pygmy owls and bighorn sheep.
The Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, and the Twa, a Pygmy people who inhabit Central Africa's Great Lakes region, have been in conflict since May 2013 in Congo's Katanga region, known for its rich deposits of copper and other metals.
In between is a gallery of improbable contributors, including politicians on the left and right (Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tom DeLay), actors, a Supreme Court chief justice, three pygmy chimpanzees, and perhaps the greatest power forward in basketball history.
The psittacines are a midsize club of about 360 species, ranging in size from the pygmy parrots of New Guinea, which are smaller than house sparrows, to the bulky, flightless kakapos of New Zealand, which can weigh up to nine pounds.
In another new paper, researchers at the University of Brest in France found that the pitch of Antarctic blue whale, pygmy blue whale and fin whale vocalizations fell from 2007 to 2016 at various recording sites in the southern Indian Ocean.
He also bought a series of more bizarre items, including a nine-foot-tall burial tomb, an octopus, shrunken pygmy heads, a $150,000 Superman comic and a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skull, which he later had to return to the Mongolian government.
Ms. Kango, a BaAka Pygmy woman who grew up in the village, has no formal medical training, but under the guidance of Emilia Bylicka, a Polish doctor who oversees the small clinic, she has emerged as a critical part of the operation.
The Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, and the Twa, a Pygmy people who inhabit the Great Lakes region, have been in conflict since May 2013 in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga region, known for its rich deposits of copper and other metals.
Saddled with energy bars and liters of water, we began the long journey back to Bangui, the country's capital, after spending a few days observing the World Wildlife Fund's gorilla and elephant conservation efforts and health work with the local Pygmy population.
Cage's purchases included 15 residences, including a $25 million waterfront home in Newport Beach, California, a $3 million island in the Bahamas, two European castles (one worth $10 million and one worth $2.3 million), a burial tomb, pygmy heads and multiple pet octopuses.
His metaphors come at you like fireflies — or like the "pygmy hummingbird moths" that delight Arthur amid his latest gloom, at a golf resort he fears he has visited accidentally (in place of a vacationing Austrian doctor in red shorts and suspenders).

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