| In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward. |
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| It clawed, pecked and fluttered its short, stubby wings as it thrashed about to get free. |
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| Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker. |
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| He glowered at her, and she giggled, then pecked him a quick kiss on the cheek and leaped off to another tree. |
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| Artists were stimulated by Pliny's descriptions of painted grapes so magically real that the birds pecked at them. |
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| She was well and truly dead with her head flopped in the water and the back of her neck was a gaping hole where she had been pecked. |
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| It's a simple stream-of-consciousness bit, pecked out on my laptop during a recent mini-tour that took in Wisconsin, California, and Arizona. |
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| All subjects had participated in an earlier experiment in which they pecked at black and white symbols to procure food rewards. |
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| Turning it lengthwise she tediously pecked in a couple of commands on a tiny keypad with her nail. |
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| Birds sang more clearly now, and woodpeckers pecked with more zest than they had heard the night before. |
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| She pecked him on the lips daintily, as though a kiss was her reward for having found him. |
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| Outside Pittsburgh he'd found her flowered hat floating in a pond, half pecked apart by birds. |
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| Almost all of his grass has been pecked up by birds in search of a tasty meal. |
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| At first it was thought Pebbles had been pecked by a bird or had been fighting with another cat. |
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| Driver John Foster was spitting feathers after having six wiper blades pecked to bits in five months. |
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| However, Chilling Place pecked on landing and weakened into third, giving the Grade One race to 3-1 shot Marcel, who kept on to hold It's Just Harry by two lengths. |
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| Ukraine was a modern Prometheus, chained to the ground, while vultures of all geopolitical persuasions companionably pecked at its liver. |
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| Some vultures sat contentedly on nearby rocks and placidly preened their feathers, others pecked hopefully among the exposed ribs of the corpse. |
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| They are, like hens, too busy observing the pecking order in which each bird is pecked by those above her and pecks those below. |
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| In this mode, you can move and delete vertices like you can do it with pecked lines in the normal mode. |
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| Ministers know that intervening between one lot of bird lovers and another is a sure way to get your eyes pecked out. |
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| The idea is to let the feet and toes almost pecked by dozens of small fish. |
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| Animists cannot be pecked to a given area in the national territory because the notion of traditional religion is difficult to define. |
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| They are bitten by insects or their blood is sucked, or they are bitten, torn, or pecked by the things that have forms of animals or birds. |
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| Bear in mind to return to the normal mode, if you want to work on pecked lines. |
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| This area is clearly depicted on the above charts by means of pecked lines. |
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| After being pecked many times and failing to get the hen out of its hiding place, we had to ask for the owner's help. |
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| Leila Hatami pecked the director of the Cannes Film Festival and was quickly denounced as a sinner by hardliners at home. |
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| We sat in the grass beside the water and talked, and attempted to stop Kasyan from tossing pieces of churro to the birds that pecked along the water's edge. |
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| People stuck outside were getting pecked by thousands of birds at a time. |
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| It started at age five when I got pecked on the head by an emu. |
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| I pecked him on the cheek, grabbed the suitcase and hopped out. |
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| He pecked her lightly on the lips before heading toward the door. |
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| Ashton pulled back from our hot kiss and pecked me once for good measure. |
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| Its strong, sharp beak pecked sharply at Wayne's exposed forearm. |
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| This rockshelter has deeply patinated, pecked circle and track engravings that are coated in desert varnish. |
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| Increasing sedentariness is also to be seen in the remarkable bowls and globular jars painstakingly pecked from stone, for pottery was as yet unknown in Mesoamerica. |
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| They include rock shelters, outcrops of rock, and surface sheets of rock and are decorated with painted, pecked, or engraved figurative and nonfigurative forms in a wealth of styles. |
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| Seeing that gull chicks pecked at the yellow-orange dot on their parent's beak to make the parent regurgitate food for them, Tinbergen presented the chicks with even bigger yellow-orange dots. |
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| Once, alone in the pasture he notices that one of the sheep has had its eyes pecked out and that the crows are already gathering to make an end of it. |
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| His left jab pecked at McTigue's face, and at infighting he matched the champion on even terms. |
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| Days later, diners at a society wedding pecked at a 100-dish menu. |
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| The birds' black bills, having pecked through the blubbery skin on the flank of this minuscule whale, were crafting a tatter of deep crimson flesh. |
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| The birds do swoop in after hooded crows or great black-backed gulls have attacked a lamb and pecked out its eyes but scientific studies in Scotland and Norway have found they rarely take live lambs. |
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| The etymology is more likely that the order is maintained by each bird pecks subordinate birds and submits to being pecked by dominant birds., and the order determines more than who gets to eat first. |
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| Rougé calls Warhol's box sculptures trompe-l'oeil: they are lifelike illusions, but not illusions of something natural, like the legendary painted grapes of Zeuxis that the birds pecked at. |
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| Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length. |
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| They are pecked or abraded on heavily jointed and fractured gabbro and granophyre igneous rock surfaces that have weathered into massive linear piles. |
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