plains
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The animals, also known as the plains wolf and listed as vulnerable, are smaller than the stronger Himalayan wolf and can be mistaken for other species such as jackals.
From Barron's
One of the Lynxley forebears invented a system of “weather walls” that ensure each type of animal can exist in his own ideal climate, from snowbound plains to the savannah.
Just like how the Himalayas on Earth form a boundary separating the plains and plateaus, the 10.8 billion-year-old Cosmic Himalayas form a boundary separating distinct cosmic structures in the early Universe.
From Space Scoop
Lou V. Chapin, writing in the Los Angeles magazine Land of Sunshine, looked forward to the day when these “demoniacal specters of the plains” would be eradicated from the earth.
From Los Angeles Times
On Sunday, Wambugu's team relocated five giraffes in an operation that required dozens of people, trailers, a plow -- and even a helicopter that tracked the animals across the plains, before shooting them with tranquiliser darts.
From Barron's
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