Lexicographical Neighbors of Tayras
Literary usage of Tayras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"The traveller announced his intention of exploring the whole region, during the
winter, as far as the Bonis, tayras, ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"Various names have been applied to the South American tayras, but, as Mr.
Thomas has noted (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), VII, Feb., 1901, p. ..."
3. Panama Adventure Guide by Patricia Katzman (2004)
"... armadillos, woolly opossums, anteaters and tayras are only a few of the mammals
spotted here. And who knows what you might see during a night excursion ..."
4. Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to by Blair Niles, William Beebe (1910)
"On the way home we frightened a group of large weasel- like creatures which we
found to be tayras (Galictis barbara) or, as the natives call them, Hackas. ..."
5. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"tayras, alert little South American martens, are omnivorous. So are handsome
small pacas—red-and-white patterned beaver-like rodents— among 103 mammal ..."
6. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"WH Hudson says that on the pampas the black tayras hunt in companies, and are
often seen; "and when these long-bodied creatures sit up erect, glaring with ..."
7. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1906)
"WH Hudson says that on the pampas the black tayras hunt in companies, and are
often seen; "and when these long-bodied creatures sit up erect, glaring with ..."
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