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  Mandrill - LoveToKnow 1911
MANDRILL (a name formed by the prefix "man" to the word "drill," which was used in ancient literature to denote an ape, and is probably of West African origin), the common title of the most hideous and most brilliantly coloured of all the African monkeys collectively denominated baboons and constituting the genus Papio.
Together with the drill (q.v.), the mandrill, Papio maimon, constitutes the subgenus Maimon, which is exclusively West African in distribution, and characterized, among other peculiarities, by the extreme shortness of the tail, and the great development of the longitudinal bony swellings, covered during life with naked skin, on the sides of the muzzle.
The cheek-prominences are of an intense blue, the effect of which is heightened by deeply sunk longitudinal furrows of a darker tint, while the central line and termination of the nose are bright scarlet.
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  Mammal Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And in mammals the quadrate and articular bones have become the incus and malleus bones in the middle ear.
Mammals also have a double occipital condyle; they have two knobs at the base of the skull which fit into the topmost neck vertebra, and other vertebrates have a single occipital condyle.
Mammals belong to a group of amniotes called the synapsids that have a single hole (temporal fenestra) low on each side of the skull on each side where jaw muscles attach.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Mammal.html   (3198 words)

  
 drill - Search Results - MSN Encarta
A grown male drill is up to 90 cm (3 ft) in length; the female is typically smaller....
Drill (mollusk), in biology, any of several small marine snails (gastropod mollusks) that bore through the shells of other mollusks and suck out...
A drill (from Dutch Drillen) is a tool with a rotating drill bit used for drilling holes in various materials.
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  Drill - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The twist drill is most common, consisting of a cylindrical metal rod with two helical "flutes" or grooves spiralling along its length.
The drill bit is held by the drill at one end, with the other end being pressed against the target material and rotated.
Oil-hole drilling can be used in a conventional drill press arrangement, but is more commonly seen in automatic drilling machinery in which it is the workpiece that rotates rather than the drill bit.
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 * Drill - (Animals): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus, is a monkey belonging to the family Cercopithecidae, order Primates.
Holes that were drilled in a banana tree were stuffed with sweet potato, oranges, carrots, monkey chow and leaf-eater biscuits.
They prefer to drill holes in to trees and use their extremely long tongues to get the insects out...
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 Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
The average body mass for an adult male drill is around 20 kilograms and for adult females it is 12.5 kilograms (Hill, 1970; Fleagle, 1999).
The drill is found in the countries of Cameroon and Nigeria and on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
The drill is a frugivorous species, but it will also eat insects, leaves, roots ground plants, and cultivated crops.
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 Drill,Mammals,Drill Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
The drill is about 76 cm (30 in) long, with an 8-cm (3-in) tail, and weighs about 23 kg (50 lb).
Its coat is grayish brown, and the face purplish fl, with a white beard and a crimson lower lip.
Drills live in the forests of equatorial West Africa, where they eat small animals, nuts, fruits, and various plants.
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 Drilling Beads (for Walter)
Before drilling, it is common to put a rough spot on a bead (called a dimple) to give the drill bit a place to "bite." This can be done with a larger drill bit, or by chipping, grinding, or pecking at a spot on the bead-to-be.
Hard stone beads in Maya times were usually not drilled, their perforations being made by pecking repeatedly at two spots on the opposite side of the bead.
In both cases, the beads were drilled from both sides and in neither case was a mechanical drilled used.
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 Drill (mammal) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drill (mammal) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Drill is similar in appearance to the Mandrill, but lacks the colorful face.
There are two ((biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species) subspecies of Drill:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dr/drill_(mammal).htm   (50 words)

  
 Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
The average body mass for an adult male drill is around 20 kilograms and for adult females it is 12.5 kilograms (Hill, 1970; Fleagle, 1999).
The drill is found in the countries of Cameroon and Nigeria and on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
The drill is a frugivorous species, but it will also eat insects, leaves, roots ground plants, and cultivated crops.
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In the male drill, the face and muzzle are fl, with red bands on the lower lip.
A drill male's threat gesture is impressive including abruptly thrusting their head forwards, retracting their eyelids, puckering up their lips and raising the crest of fur on their heads.
Drills are highly endangered because they are more localised, but mandrill populations have also suffered drastic declines.
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 Drill   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A drill is a tool with a rotary drill bit used to bore holes throughmaterial.
The drill bit isheld by the drill at one end, with the other end being pressed against the target material and rotated.
Oil-hole drilling can be used in a conventional drill press arrangement,but is more commonly seen in automatic drilling machinery in which it is the workpiece that rotates rather than the drillbit.
www.therfcc.org /drill-21679.html   (264 words)

  
 FR Doc E7-6753
Marine Mammals A total of three cetacean species (bowhead, gray, and beluga whales), three species of pinnipeds (ringed, spotted, and bearded seal), and one marine carnivore (polar bear) are known to occur in or near the proposed drilling areas in the U.S. Beaufort Sea.
Aerial monitoring and reconnaissance of marine mammals and recordings of ambient sound levels, vocalizations of marine mammals, and received levels should they be detectable using bottom-founded acoustic recorders along the Beaufort Sea coast will be used to interpret the reactions of marine mammals exposed to the activities.
However, sounds produced during drilling activity are relatively continuous while ice management vessel sounds are considered to be intermittent, and there is some concern that continuous and intermittent sounds may result in behavioral reactions (at least in mysticete whales) at a greater distance than impulse sound (i.e., seismic) of the same intensity.
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 The Potential Sensitivity of Marine Mammals to Mining and Exploration in the Great Australian Bight Marine Park Marine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drilling fluid is pumped down the drill pipe and into the hole at high velocity through nozzles in the drill bit.
The drilling fluid serves several purposes, including raising the drill cuttings to the surface for disposal, providing the "weight" to keep the underground pressures controlled, keeping the hole stable by caking the wall with a thin layer of clay; and cleaning and cooling the drill bit.
In an open drilling fluid system, seawater is often used as the circulating fluid along with regular slugs of high viscosity drilling fluid to clean the drill cuttings from the wellbore, with both the drill cuttings and drilling fluid discharged directly from the well to the seafloor (Hinwood et al., 1994).
www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/gab/sensitivity/chapter3.html   (3622 words)

  
 2007 Federal Register, 72 FR 30670; Centralized Library: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - FR Doc E7-10509
Drilling operations are expected to range between 30 and 90 days at different well sites, depending on the depth to the target formation, difficulties during drilling, and logging/testing operations.
The drill pipe is encased in a riser that compensates for the vertical wave motion.
Drilling platforms have containment ability in case of a blowout, and the amount of release is expected to be minimal.
www.fws.gov /policy/library/E7-10509.html   (18054 words)

  
 Pictures of the drill|Mandrillus leucophaeus facts
Drill Mammal Drill (mammal) 1758 The Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a Mandrill.
Hammer drills are used to drill holes in concrete.
These shooting drills are for: beginners who want help with the fundamentals, players who have some experience and are looking to get to the next level, and experienced players who want that extra "edge" over the competition.
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As allowed by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (Act), these final regulations are effective through January 30, 2000, during which time we will consider new information associated with sub-sea pipelines to evaluate the scope of activities that will be covered in a future rule.
In the 1989 drilling season an incident occurred in a Chuckchi Sea operation where a young walrus surfaced in the center hole (moonpool) of the drill ship.
A cargo net removed the walrus from the drilling area, after which the walrus left the scene of the incident and was not seen again.
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 D is for... Picture Dictionary
Deer are long-legged mammals that have hoofed, two-toed feet.
A dolphin is a marine mammal with a long nose and teeth.
The Duck-billed Platypus is a primitive mammal from Australia that lays eggs and has a poisonous spike on its leg.
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 You can't escape what's in you.
Late in the evening as the temperature drops, infected ants experience an uncontrollable urge to wander from their colony, climb a blade of grass and attach to the tip by their jaws.
The leap of an average flea is equivalent to a 100 pound man leaping 1,000 and enduring a g-force of 20,000 pounds with an acceleration greater than that of a space shuttle.
Young chiggers niether bite nor drink blood, but attach tightly to the skin of their mammal hosts and secrete a digestive enzyme to liquify and suck of the surrounding flesh.
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First, one reason to avoid drilling in the beautiful state of Alaska is the chance of the oil contaminating the wildlife.
The oil drilling could harm the coastal plain which would then harm the wildlife and vegetation that survives on the coastal plain.
Lovins is basically saying that it is not worth it to drill for oil in the refuge because the amount of oil is insufficient compared to the cost that it will take to drill the oil.
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 Geotimes — March 2004 — A Fresh Angle on Oil Drilling
The method, called deviated drilling, was hard to control, especially with a motor at the surface rotating the rigid drill string (which connects the drill bit to the motor).
Directional drilling also allows more cost-effective development of offshore fields from onshore locations, even from three to four miles inland, without the threat of marine oil spills, which is a major concern for the Arctic Ocean ecosystem.
Using a normal drill bit and pulling through the same piping materials — even using the same mud slurries that keep the drill bits lubricated — the horizontal drills for environmental to industrial applications are “a scaled-down version of the oil industry,” Sequino says.
www.geotimes.org /mar04/feature_horizdrill.html   (3017 words)

  
 The Marine Mammal Center Participates in Safe Seas 2006
The goal of Safe Seas 2006 is to demonstrate techniques and technologies used to protect marine and coastal resources and to develop individual skills in contingency planning and emergency response in the event of an oil spill disaster at sea.
The three-day disaster drill, lead by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is the largest of its kind to be held in U.S. waters.
Headquartered in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Sausalito, California, The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit hospital dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of ill and injured marine mammals, and to the research of their health and diseases.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/8/prweb422239.htm   (745 words)

  
 Patent 6,682,753   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This increase may be achieved by administration to the mammal of an effective amount of a GPE-related compound, a prodrug thereof, or an implant containing cells that express the GPE-related compound or prodrug.
This invention is a method of promoting weight gain in a mammal, especially a human, having a condition that leads to decreased weight gain or weight loss, comprising increasing the effective concentration of a GPE-related compound in the central nervous system of the mammal.
The increase in the effective concentration of a GPE-related compound in the central nervous system of the mammal may be achieved by administration to the mammal of an effective amount of the GPE-related compound, a prodrug thereof, or an implant containing cells that express the GPE-related compound or prodrug.
www.pharmcast.com /Patents100/Yr2004/Jan2004/012704/6682753_Weight012704.htm   (2767 words)

  
 The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drilling is carried out by a drill rig which consists of a superstructure with pumps and a motor that rotates a string of steel drill pipe into the ground.
On the bottom of the drill pipe is a drill bit, which has diamond chips throughout it that are hard enough to cut through any type of rock.
The purpose of drilling is to obtain samples of buried rock.
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The drill is periodically pulled to the surface by its tether to remove the core and cuttings.
At Eureka, the drill is being used on sandstone and rock outcrops, and to drill through ice.
In Europe and parts of Asia, mammals such as the giant Irish deer or Irish elk died out broadly toward the end of the late Pliestocene, in some areas before humans were present.
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 drill - definition of drill by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition: conducted an air-raid drill; a drill for learning the multiplication tables.
breast drill - a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work
At one end is a mighty revolving drill operated by an engine which Perry said generated more power to the cubic inch than any other engine did to the cubic foot.
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 FR Doc E7-7471
Description of the Marine Mammals Potentially Affected by the Activity Ringed seals are the only species of marine mammal that may be present in the proposed project area during the site clearance period.
Drilling will have a negligible impact on the seafloor, since the bore holes will be small and widely spaced, and they will naturally fill in over time due to sediment movement by currents.
The report will contain detailed description of any marine mammal, by species, number, age class, and sex if possible, that is sighted in the vicinity of the proposed project area; location and time of the animal sighted; whether the animal exhibits a behavioral reaction to any on-ice activities or is injured or killed.
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 The Martialist: The Magazine For Those Who Fight Unfairly
These are harder to drill and produce more dust, but they give you an even stronger implement when you're done.
Drill a third small hole in the end of the pocket stick for a split ring if you want to make this a keychain.
Once you have drilled and countersunk the paracord holes, use the awl blade of a Swiss Army Knife or multitool to scrape out any irregular protrusions from inside the holes.
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 2006 Federal Register, 71 FR 43962; Centralized Library: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - FR Doc 06-6626
The test well drilling was originally planned to take place during the 2004-2005 drilling season; however, a decision to move forward has not yet been made.
Reactions depend on the individuals' prior exposure to the disturbance source and their need or desire to be in the particular habitat or area where they are exposed to the noise and visual presence of the disturbance sources.
We considered spill probabilities for the drilling platform and the sub-sea pipeline, since this is where spills are most likely to occur.
www.fws.gov /policy/library/06-6626.html   (17270 words)

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