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- noun Plural form of
guan .
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Examples
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Also present are toucans (Ramphastos spp.), two guans (Pipile cujubi, Penelope pileata), many Nearctic migrants, parrots, and parakeets.
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Among the avifauna, harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja), curassows (Mitu selvini), and white-browned guans (Penelope jacucaca) are found.
Napo moist forests 2008
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He called the cecropia fruit mangimeowe and noted that it is eaten and dispersed by toucans and piping guans.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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He called the cecropia fruit mangimeowe and noted that it is eaten and dispersed by toucans and piping guans.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Curassows are also relatives of guans and chachalacas, but they are even larger - up to 1 m tall and 5 kg in weight.
5 Chicken 1991
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Unlike most game birds, guans are chiefly tree dwellers, but they also feed on the ground.
5 Chicken 1991
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Gallinaceous birds usually breed freely in confinement, but some do not; and even the guans and curassows, kept tame by the South American Indians, never breed.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Upon the ground, the large curassows, and guans, and the "gallo," with his plumage of bright red.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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Capybara spend less time frolicking in the water, spix's guans learn not to trumpet when they fly, peccary become more silent, and jaguar become almost entirely nocturnal.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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If we are correct guans are allied with sum1 on tranq?
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