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  • noun Plural form of takin.

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Examples

  • Some go on five-day expeditions to natural salt licks frequented by yak herders and takins, Bhutan's shy national animals.

    Soon, a Not-So-Secret Kingdom Patrick Barta 2011

  • He does not mention the baby takin the big takins were trying to teach to headbutt, and it was trying out the head motions and falling over.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2008

  • I visited the farm many times (see adjacent image), and the zoo where I was impressed by takins, peccaries, sleeping anteaters and rhinos.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

  • Dem mens can beh sooo stubrns sumtymes, wut wud tehy does wifowt us womens tu beh takins care ub dem aidunkno…Is so glad tu heer hims is strung adn teh dokturs will beh takins gud care ub hims so hims can beh goings hoem.

    DRUG-RELATED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Iz takins lawts uv ponytaylez tu maek wun wig sew ebery liddle bit halps.

    cant reach - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • As well as the yaks and the sea otters below there were okapi, porcupines, takins and a whole mess of coypus. clicking the photos will take you to the rest of the Antwerp Zoo photos.

    Archive 2007-06-01 MadeleineS 2007

  • I visited the farm many times (see adjacent image), and the zoo where I was impressed by takins, peccaries, sleeping anteaters and rhinos.

    Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I) Darren Naish 2007

  • As well as the yaks and the sea otters below there were okapi, porcupines, takins and a whole mess of coypus. clicking the photos will take you to the rest of the Antwerp Zoo photos.

    Boulders - or maybe tapirs! MadeleineS 2007

  • Steep, inaccessible terrain and heavy monsoon precipitation have limited human settlement so that today populations of many rare mammals — red pandas, takins, musk deer — and restricted-range birds, find refuge in these dense forests.

    Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests 2008

  • Some of the landscapes in this ecoregion have received international attention and special conservation status because they provide habitat for giant pandas and other charismatic mammals like red pandas and takins.

    Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests 2008

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