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- noun Plural form of
margay .
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Examples
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They watched as busy stevedores, mostly broad-shouldered wolves, margays, and lynxes, laboriously loaded and unloaded stacks of crates and bales.
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He set up animal rehabilitation centers — first outside Manaus and then in his family's backyard, in the heart of the city — for monkeys, tapirs, peccaries, margays, and whatever other creatures came his way, orphaned by hunting or deforestation.
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008
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He set up animal rehabilitation centers — first outside Manaus and then in his family's backyard, in the heart of the city — for monkeys, tapirs, peccaries, margays, and whatever other creatures came his way, orphaned by hunting or deforestation.
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008
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Before they were illegal, Betsy had nearly unheard of breeding pairs of margays.
Betsy 2006
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Before they were illegal, Betsy had nearly unheard of breeding pairs of margays.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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A couple of margays regarded Jon-Tom out of wide eyes.
The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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Behind him marched a pair of margays, but instead of the handsome, symmetrical faces common to their breed they displayed long upward curving fangs, piggish nostrils and greatly elongated ears that flopped over their foreheads like those of a basset hound.
The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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In your recent post on margays and tamarins, the margay approached the tamarins via liana, presumably (?) in the canopy.
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In your recent post on margays and tamarins, the margay approached the tamarins via liana, presumably (?) in the canopy.
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In your recent post on margays and tamarins, the margay approached the tamarins via liana, presumably (?) in the canopy.
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